Many pilots were out with their aeroplanes, when I got to my flying club in Holbæk on a late sunny afternoon. Everybody wanted to take advantage of those sparse couple of hours of sunlight and good flying weather. I spotted Michael with his vintage KZ-VII, Danish designed and built, near the fuel station:
Before doing the pre-flight check on mine, I removed the canopy cover that served as a dust cover in the hangar, and put it in its new storage bag, I recently made. It is going to be so easy to bring it with me on my flying trips:
With a size of 35 x 28 x 6 cm, it is simply so cute! 🙂 Or maybe it’s just me, admiring my new work! 🙂 By the way, I can now offer a canopy cover + storage bag for Aeroprakt A22 on my other NAWICO.com website here. And I can also make a canopy cover for another type of aircraft.
There wasn’t much time, so I decided to fly to Kalundborg and see some manor houses there:
First “stop” – Birkendegaard. The buildings of Birkendegaard are not very old. The main building, whose style is reminiscent of the Gothic Renaissance, is from 1854 – after the perevious one burned down. Other buildings are from about the same year.
In the old bull barn of Birkendegaard, there is an Agricultural Museum, where one can learn about the life on a farm in the old days. Annual vintage tractors exhibition takes place in early August.
I continued in the direction of Kalundborg. Equinor oil refinery south of Kalundborg:
I was so happy to be airborne! The air was very smooth, good visibility, and not much wind.
Lerchenborg (photo below) was built in the 18th century. At that time, the estate included 7 manors, 13 churches and extensive woodlands. The original French-style baroque garden was designed by the Belgian-Danish architect and engineering officer Jean Baptiste de Longueville, but most of it was adapted into an English-style landscape garden in the 19th century:
Kalundborg Ladegaard (yellow arrow points at on the photo below) has lots of interesting stories related to the time it was built at. I’ll try to give a short version, and only with the focus on the building.
Once upon a time, around the year 1170, there was a castle built, named Kalundborg. In the middle of the 13th century, a monastery was founded near the castle, which was named Kaalund Kloster. The monks were forced out of Kaalund Monastery in 1532, because the monastery blocked for the extention of the fortifications, and the abandoned buildings were converted into a barn (Danish: ladegaard) under Kalundborg Castle. In the late Middle Ages, Kalundborg Castle became one of the most powerful bastions in Denmark, but it was taken in 1658 by the Swedish army and blown up so as not to be rebuilt later. (Sometimes I wish I never read all those terrible war stories!)
The former monastery buildings were later demolished and a brand new farm was built in its place. The main building was used as a school home in 1948-63, after which it was sold to Kalundborg Municipality.
And the last manor that day was Lerchenfeld:
Lerchenfeld was established as a breeding farm under the family house Lerchenborg in the end of 18th century. During time, this place changed many owners. Today, the estate specializes in cultivation of cereals, legumes and oilseeds.
I practised a number of turns before flying back home to Holbæk:
It was quite a cheerful fligh 🙂
I’ve learned to appreciate those local flights during winter…
