Näsby Castle

Näsby Castle (2011)

Engraving from the work Suecia antiqua et hodierna by Erik Dahlbergh (late 17th century)

Näsby Castle ( Swedish Näsby slott ) is located in the Swedish municipality of Täby , about 15 km north of Stockholm , on a bay ( Stora Värtan ) of the Baltic Sea that extends far inland .

The property had been owned by the Archbishop of Uppsala since the 14th century and passed to Christina Gyllenstierna in the 1520s . By donation and marriage, Gut Näsby came to the Imperial Councilor and diplomat Per Larsson Sparre via the noble Banér family . In 1665 he had the current castle-like main building built according to plans by the architect Nicodemus Tessin the Elder (possibly based on earlier sketches by Jean de la Vallée ). In the following years Näsby changed hands several times within various Swedish noble families and was also temporarily state property as a result of expropriation. In 1902 the industrialist and art collector Carl Robert Lamm bought the castle. He had the building, which had meanwhile been heavily destroyed by a fire, restored on the basis of the old plans by the architect Erik Josephson . Lamm kept his extensive collection of mostly Italian and Swedish sculptures and paintings in the castle . Most of the works of art have now been sold, but there are still few works by z. B. Bruno Liljefors , Anders Zorn and Carl Milles in the castle.

From 1941 to 1987 the Swedish Navy School had its headquarters in the building. During this time an office extension was built. The castle has served as a hotel since 1989, mainly hosting conferences and wedding celebrations.

The castle, the 17th century stable and a boathouse have been architectural monuments ( Byggnadsminne ) since 1943 .

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  Näsby Castle (2011)

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  The baroque park of the palace (2011)

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  Fountain on a facade (2011)

literature

• Näsby 1.) . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 20 : Norrsken – Paprocki . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1914, Sp. 344 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

Commons : Näsby Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the hotel (Swedish, English)
• Näsby Castle in the Riksantikvarieämbetet's list of monuments ; Retrieved December 6, 2012.
• Näsby slott. Täby parish, accessed December 6, 2012
• Interior illustrations
• Entry in the bebyggelseregistret des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jean de la Vallée . In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon ; Retrieved December 9, 2012.

Coordinates: 59 ° 25 ′ 27 ″  N , 18 ° 5 ′ 12 ″  E