Kurhotel Skodsborg

Why it is renowned

In 2016 the World Luxury Hotel Awards named Skodsborg the best wellness spa in Europe, at a ceremony in Switzerland.¹² The sanatorium drew guests from abroad from its early years: John Harvey Kellogg, whose Battle Creek Sanitarium was its model, visited in 1926, and in 1910 it hosted the eighth International Socialist Congress, attended by Rosa Luxemburg.²

The story

The physician Carl Ottosen had worked for John Harvey Kellogg at Battle Creek before he founded Skodsborg Badesanatorium with the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1898.³² He had bought two buildings that had served King Frederick VII and Countess Danner as a summer retreat; a new main building followed in 1907, when Villa Rex, designed by Johan Henrik Nebelong in 1858, was added.² The vegetarian diet earned the place the nickname Persilleslottet, the Parsley Palace.² The Augustinus group has owned the hotel outright since 1992.⁴ Today it has a spa, a gym, two restaurants and a view over the Øresund.³

What to know it by

• Villa Rex²1858Johan Henrik NebelongFormer royal summer villa, listed
• Countess Danner's Mansion²Peter KornerupListed wing, enlarged in 1952
• Frederick VII's grotto²1853Grotto of travertine and flint in the park
• The Lobby²Lounge, restaurant and bar