Many rooms of the castle have an air of public space and workplace/stores. And many rooms have surely been used in several ways. But from the design of this room, it is possible to see that it was a private room, ie living quarters. The revealing details are the sink, the fireplace and the duct opening for incoming warm air, the so called hypocaust, close to the ceiling. In the adjacent chamber, there was a passage through the outer wall to the privy, that is, the toilet. We think that Sir Jens Holgersen himself, the knight of Glimmingehus, lived in these rooms, thus making them the Lord´s living quarters. This assumption is based partly on his coat of arms being the only decoration of the larger room, but also on the fact that this room is mentioned as Jens´s bedroom in the oldest preserved source mentioning functions of the castle rooms. That source was however written in 1676, 150 years after the death of J ens. The 3D model was created by Jonas Carlson Almqvist, Virtual Sweden
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