Hessenstein Palace
The Palais Hessenstein is a city palace in the old town of Stockholm , Sweden . It is a three-wing, three-story building on Riddarholmen on the northeast side of Birger Jarls Torg.
The palace, in the Mannerist style , was built around 1630 for the imperial councilor Bengt Bengtsson Oxenstierna . Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstierna and his wife Eva Juliana Wachtmeister bought the building from his relative in 1670. In 1680 they let the palace through Nicodemus Tessin the Elder. J. rebuild in its present form, probably based on designs by his father, the court architect Nicodemus Tessin the Elder. Ä.
King Friedrich (1676–1751) bought the palace and gave it to his mistress , Countess Hedvig Ulrika Taube in 1734 . The upper floors were renovated by Carl Hårleman , but Hedvig Taube died in 1744 before the renovation was completed. The palace thus passed to Friedrich Wilhelm von Hessenstein , her son and the king's son, who completed the renovation and after whom the house has been named ever since.
In the 1750s, the politician and then President of the State Chancellery Carl Gustaf Tessin , son of the architect Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, rented a house . J. and Governor of the Crown Prince Gustav III. , the house, because the royal family lived in the Wrangelschen Palais opposite , as long as the royal palace was rebuilt after the fire of 1697.
From 1835 the building housed various government institutions. In 1983 it was restored , restoring interiors from the 1600s and 1700s. Today the building is used by the court of appeal, the Svea hovrätt , whose headquarters are in the Wrangel Palace .
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Coordinates: 59 ° 19 ′ 31.1 ″ N , 18 ° 3 ′ 52.8 ″ E