Louhisaari Castle
Villnäs Castle or Louhisaari Castle ( Finnish Louhisaaren kartano , Swedish Villnäs slott ) is a manor house in the Finnish countryside of Varsinais-Suomi in the former province of Western Finland in the southwest of the country two kilometers west of Askainen / Villnäs .
The castle belonged to the Fleming family for over three hundred years and, after they had to give it up for financial reasons, to the Mannerheims from 1795 to 1903 . Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was born here in 1867.
The main building from 1655 is in the style of the Italian palace architecture of the late Renaissance . The builder was Herman Claesson Fleming (1619–1673). There are murals and ceiling paintings in the main building. The castle is surrounded by a large English landscaped park .
Villnäs Castle has belonged to the Finnish state since 1961 and has been a museum and open to the public since 1967.
Web links
- Homepage Villnäs Castle (Swedish)
- "Louhisaaren kartano" (picture gallery) (Finnish)
Coordinates: 60 ° 34 ′ 15 ″ N , 21 ° 49 ′ 52 ″ E