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<p style="font-weight: 400">The granary is located on the 1st floor in the left wing of the main building. The back staircase leading up to the granary is battered, but full of history about the true workhorses of the time. All the ‘gold’ (grain sacks) were carried up to the 1st floor of the main building when the harvest was in. The granary was then a kind of bank for the harvest yield, as this was where the grain was stored until it was sold. There was an old hoist outdoors, but many sacks of grain were also dragged by big strong men up the old stairs, which still exist. </p> <p style="font-weight: 400">In the office below the granary, the storekeeper used to have an office. This is where he kept track of the large books with grain weighed in and out. We still have the large bookcase with all the compartments for this purpose and the old desk he used to work at. </p> <p style="font-weight: 400">Birgitte Dinesen says:<em> “I decided to refurbish the granary when I was going to celebrate my daughter Regitze’s confirmation. It was rotten to the core up there and I actually walked through the ceiling when I went up there a few years ago!”</em></p> <p style="font-weight: 400">Today, the granary is used as a conference and party venue.</p>

Grain magazine

<p style="font-weight: 400">The granary is located on the 1st floor in the left wing of the main building. The back staircase leading up to the granary is battered, but full of history about the true workhorses of the time. All the ‘gold’ (grain sacks) were carried up to the 1st floor of the main building when the harvest was in. The granary was then a kind of bank for the harvest yield, as this was where the grain was stored until it was sold. There was an old hoist outdoors, but many sacks of grain were also dragged by big strong men up the old stairs, which still exist. </p> <p style="font-weight: 400">In the office below the granary, the storekeeper used to have an office. This is where he kept track of the large books with grain weighed in and out. We still have the large bookcase with all the compartments for this purpose and the old desk he used to work at. </p> <p style="font-weight: 400">Birgitte Dinesen says:<em> “I decided to refurbish the granary when I was going to celebrate my daughter Regitze’s confirmation. It was rotten to the core up there and I actually walked through the ceiling when I went up there a few years ago!”</em></p> <p style="font-weight: 400">Today, the granary is used as a conference and party venue.</p>

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