Almnäs manor house
The Almnäs manor is located in the Swedish municipality of Hjo, around eight kilometers south of the town of Hjo on the west bank of Lake Vättersee .
The Almnäs estate has been known since the Middle Ages. In the 1750s, today's three-story main building with four wings was built by an unknown architect. The manor is surrounded by an English park.
At the manor house there is a number of farm buildings from the 19th century: a saltpeter magazine, another magazine with a column portico, a schnapps distillery, an office building designed by the architect Helgo Zettervall , a brewery, a dairy, stables and the like. a. The estate also includes a blast furnace, a mill, a sawmill and a brick kiln.
literature
- Almnäs manor house . In: Bernhard Meijer (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : A-Armati . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1904, Sp. 668 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Coordinates: 58 ° 14 '52 " N , 14 ° 15' 53" E