A Mockup from Nyborg Castle

A 1:1 facade mockup has now been built for the upcoming exhibition wing at Nyborg Castle – an exciting milestone in a project we’ve been working on since 2015!

Embedded in the masonry, traces of Nyborg Castle’s many stories are clearly visible. Built over 800 years ago, the castle has served as a fortress, royal residence, center of power in the Middle Ages, later military storage, and today a museum. These historical layers are visible in the existing masonry of the Royal Wing – and they continue in the design of the new ring wall, exhibition wing, and watchtower extension.

The new masonry interprets the castle’s history by using three stone formats, each representing significant periods in the castle’s life:

• Monk stone – from the castle’s medieval origins
• Flensburg stone – from its period of decline in the 1600s-1700s
• Danish standard format – from the present day

The distribution of the stones is graded in the façade: Monk bricks concentrated at ground level, transitioning to Flensburg bricks and then to the standard format at the top of the wall. This creates a masonry that intertwines the castle’s history with the present and its continued development.

Until now, these ideas have lived only on paper, but now they can finally be seen in reality!

The mock-up allows us to test and refine details and will serve as a fixed reference throughout the entire project.

We look forward to following and sharing the next steps!

Thanks to Slots- og Kulturstyrelsen, Østfyns Museer, A.P. Møller Fonden and Realdania for making it happen.

And everyone else involved: H+, Henry Jensen Engineering, and Erik Brandt Dam.

Images and mockups by DREIER & CO.