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Karlsladen, Visitors Centre
Karlsladen is a barn from 1727, turned into a visitors centre for National Park Mols Bjerge in 2013.
Karlsladen in Denmark, Northern Europe
General information
Architectural style	Holstein
Location	Syddjurs Municipality
Country	Denmark
Coordinates	56°10′35″N 10°29′33″E / 56.17639°N 10.49250°E / 56.17639; 10.49250
Completed	1727
Owner	Skov- og Naturstyrelsen
Technical details
Structural system	Timbered barn with oak pillars and load bearing construction. Thatched roof

Karlsladen is a barn built in 1727 in the Syddjurs Municipality of Denmark that was made into a visitors centre for Mols Bjerge National Park in 2013. The thatched and timbered building covers 1,000 square meters.^[1] Access to the visitors centre is free, and it is open 7 days a week all year.^[2] Before restoration, the barn was a dilapidated farm building as part of the now publicly owned Kalø Estate.

The exhibition at the visitors centre is unstaffed. Its purpose is to convey aspects of local nature and natural history from Mols Bjerge National Park on the southern part of the Djursland peninsula in Denmark. The main themes are prehistoric times, the Kalø Castle Ruin and wildlife and hunting round Kalø. The latter related to a research station under Aarhus University that is part of the Kalø Estate.^[3] The visitors centre includes a series of posters, a model of the medieval Kalø Castle, and an area for children. Here one can hear taped stories, such as about how the Swedish king, Gustav Vasa, was imprisoned at Kalø Castle in 1518-19, until he escaped from the castle peninsula by wading through the sea during the night at low tide.^[4]

Karlsladen is owned by the Danish state under the Nature Departement, Naturstyrelsen. In 1727, Karlsladen was built as a barn for storing farm crops from the Kalø Estate.^[3] As part of the renovation in 2013, the building was given a thatched roof in line with its original roofing. It had been given a tile roof in 1941, which was removed as part of the 2013 renovation.^[4]

Until 1945, the Kalø Estate, including Karlsladen, was privately owned by the German Jenisch family from Holstein.^[4] After World War II, the Danish State confiscated the Kalø Estate, including Karlsladen, as part of war compensation.

Karlsladen is located on Djursland, which is a peninsula protruding from Jutland to the east into the Kattegat Sea. Karlsladen is located close to Kalø Castle Ruin and the town Rønde in Syddjurs Municipality 30 kilometers north-east of Denmark's second largest city, Aarhus.