Glimmingehus is a medieval stronghold in Simrishamn Municipality, in Scania, southern Sweden. The Danish knight Jens Holgersen Ulfstand, a nobleman and admiral under King John I of Denmark, began it in 1499 and finished it in 1506. The architect was Adam van Düren, a North German master who also worked on Lund Cathedral.
The walls are built to defend. The lower stone walls are 7.9 feet (2.4 meters) thick and the upper walls 5.9 feet (1.8 meters). Visitors find false doors, dead-end corridors, murder-holes for pouring boiling pitch, moats and drawbridges. Hot air channels in the walls provided comfort.
In 1676 Charles XI ordered it demolished, but two attempts failed. The state received it in 1924, and it is now a museum with tours, a medieval kitchen and a restaurant. The article calls it the best preserved medieval stronghold in Scandinavia.
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