The blackboard and the headstone
<p style="font-weight: 400">Eggert Ulfeldt owned the Kragerup Gods estate in the late 1500s. He left behind two remarkable mementos; one was an octagonal stone table with his and his wife Elisabeth Galde’s coat of arms. The other memento was a gravestone inserted in the church wall of Ørslev church, as well as an alabaster altarpiece that belonged to Kragerup. </p>
<p style="font-weight: 400"><b><strong>The blackboard table</strong></b><br />
The blackboard table is an octagonal granite blackboard table from 1577 and one of the oldest blackboard tables in Denmark. The table originally stood in a gazebo with the lord’s coat of arms, name and year carved above the door. The pavilion building was located in the “grove” of the forest where there is now an activity park. The pavilion was not demolished until the 1920s. </p>
<p style="font-weight: 400">The table is engraved with two old games that were played for fun. The table’s two games were the most popular board game of the time, ‘tabulut’ and the dice game ‘passedix’. This was also where the gentlemen of old would go out after a good dinner and play ‘high stakes’, where they might gamble away a few land numbers or a forest. It’s not good to know, but if the table could tell stories, they would no doubt be interesting and eye-catching. The board table can still be found behind the terrace at Restaurant Blixen. </p>
<p style="font-weight: 400"><b><strong>The gravestone</strong></b><br />
The gravestone dates from 1554 and was originally in the floor. It was made when the owner of Kragerup, Claus Eggertsen Ulfeldt’s first wife, Dorthe Ovesdatter Lunge, died. Claus Ulfeldt placed himself on the gravestone with her, as he expected to lie next to her. However, Ulfeldt married a second time and ended up lying under another headstone in Ulbølle Church together with his second wife, Margrethe Hvide. Ulfeldt was therefore the only person in the country with two headstones. </p>
<p style="font-weight: 400">Later, in 1843, the stone was set into the south wall of the church, where it can be admired to this day.</p>
The blackboard and the headstone
<p style="font-weight: 400">Eggert Ulfeldt owned the Kragerup Gods estate in the late 1500s. He left behind two remarkable mementos; one was an octagonal stone table with his and his wife Elisabeth Galde’s coat of arms. The other memento was a gravestone inserted in the church wall of Ørslev church, as well as an alabaster altarpiece that belonged to Kragerup. </p>
<p style="font-weight: 400"><b><strong>The blackboard table</strong></b><br />
The blackboard table is an octagonal granite blackboard table from 1577 and one of the oldest blackboard tables in Denmark. The table originally stood in a gazebo with the lord’s coat of arms, name and year carved above the door. The pavilion building was located in the “grove” of the forest where there is now an activity park. The pavilion was not demolished until the 1920s. </p>
<p style="font-weight: 400">The table is engraved with two old games that were played for fun. The table’s two games were the most popular board game of the time, ‘tabulut’ and the dice game ‘passedix’. This was also where the gentlemen of old would go out after a good dinner and play ‘high stakes’, where they might gamble away a few land numbers or a forest. It’s not good to know, but if the table could tell stories, they would no doubt be interesting and eye-catching. The board table can still be found behind the terrace at Restaurant Blixen. </p>
<p style="font-weight: 400"><b><strong>The gravestone</strong></b><br />
The gravestone dates from 1554 and was originally in the floor. It was made when the owner of Kragerup, Claus Eggertsen Ulfeldt’s first wife, Dorthe Ovesdatter Lunge, died. Claus Ulfeldt placed himself on the gravestone with her, as he expected to lie next to her. However, Ulfeldt married a second time and ended up lying under another headstone in Ulbølle Church together with his second wife, Margrethe Hvide. Ulfeldt was therefore the only person in the country with two headstones. </p>
<p style="font-weight: 400">Later, in 1843, the stone was set into the south wall of the church, where it can be admired to this day.</p>