Tour of the Royal Burial Chapel

Name: Tour of the Royal Burial Chapel
Start: 2026-12-02T15:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-12-02T16:30:00+01:00
Location: Sønderborg Slot

Wed, 2 Dec 2026 · 15:30 — 16:30

Sønderborg Slot, Sønderborg · 315 kr. · ≈ 42 €

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Tour of the Royal Burial Chapel · Sønderborg Slot, Sønderborg

Tour of the Royal Burial Chapel: Wednesday 2 December 2026, 15:30, Sønderborg Slot, Sønderborg. Tickets cost 315 kr.

Behind the castle church at Sønderborg Slot lies a burial chapel spread across five rooms, where 46 dukes, duchesses, princes and princesses are interred. The chapel is normally closed to the public and opens only for these guided tours.

The tour covers a selection of the interred persons as well as the decoration and inscriptions on the coffins. It is led by Dr. phil. Carsten Porskrog Rasmussen, head of the History department at Museum Sønderjylland.

Duration: approximately 1 hour. There are 20 places per tour - tickets are recommended to be purchased in advance.

About: Carsten Porskrog Rasmussen

Chief curator at Museum Sønderjylland and holder of a doctorate from Aarhus University, Carsten Porskrog Rasmussen has spent decades mapping the complex history of Southern Jutland as duchy, borderland and part of the Danish realm. His lectures combine scholarly depth with an engaging narrative style.

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2025-10
Carsten Porskrog Rasmussen gave a lecture at Augustiana in Augustenborg about the 200-year history of the Augustenborg ducal family based on the White Palace.
2024
In 2024 he published the jubilee publication A School and a Home Through 100 Years about Gråsten Agricultural School 1924-2024 and edited the anthology Southern Jutland Elites - from Antiquity to the Industrial Age.

Tracks

HertugdømmetPart of the series 100 Danish Stories - Southern Jutland's political and national history over nearly 600 years

Det Sønderjyske landbrugs historie, bind 3 (1544-1830)Standard work on Southern Jutland agricultural history, published 2013

Rentegods og hovedgårdsdriftDr.phil. dissertation (2003) on estate structures and estate economy in the Duchy of Schleswig ca. 1524-1770

Sønderjyske Eliter - fra oldtiden til industrialderenEdited anthology with own contribution, published 2024

Historien på Væggen - Historiemalerier på Sønderborg SlotEdited work on the castle's historical paintings, Museum Sønderjylland 2017

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