[2] Also the fortress castle itself hides both history as such as well as historical horrors, like the 16th Century dungeon in the old western tower, into which the unlucky prisoners were thrown down through a hatch.

[3] Around 1900 until 1940 a part of the fortress served as a forced labour institution for vagrant women[4][5] Initially built by Christian III of Denmark[6] 1549–1559 as a purely defensive fortification with two complete moats, the inner with a width of 70 metres (230 ft).

The outer (complete) moat is between 40 and 70 metres (130 and 230 ft) wide, and has cross fire bastions for artillery and guns.

On 2 August 1676, during the Scanian War, the commandant Hieronymus Lindeberg surrendered himself and the castle to a Danish army unit.

Today the castle is both a kind of museum (guided tours only, but not expensive, daily during the summer) and can be rented for private parties.