Rosendal Castle

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Rosendal Castle

Rosendal Castle is a pleasure palace in the Stockholm district of Djurgården , which King Charles XIV Johann had built in the 19th century.

The site was originally a living space for animal guards and was given to Gustav III. given away to his secretary Georg De Besche. He had a wooden building built around 1790. In 1798 he sold the position to Countess Aurora de Geer. After that it was owned by the director Hans Niclas Schwan. He left the property to Major General L. M. De Camps, who in turn sold it to Crown Prince Karl Johann.

After the first building, which the architect Fredrik August Lidströmer had planned on Karl Johann's order, burned down in 1819, Karl Johann had today's royal villa built between 1823 and 1827 according to plans by the architect Fredrik Blom . The castle is a prefabricated wooden house with 17 rooms on two floors, which was provided with plastered facing stone. The architect for the interior was Emanuel Limnell . The veranda over two floors on the north side was added in the 1860s. The "dining room", which adjoins the short western side, is furnished like a tent and was added in the 1870s. Originally the dining room contained a collection of pistols and other weapons of Oscar II. The two-story "Pavilion for the Queen" ( Drottningens paviljong ) on the east side had already been built in front of the main building. The precious furniture and other furnishings are typical examples of the Empire style . In front of the northern facade in 1825 a huge vase (3 meters high, 4 meters in diameter) made of porphyry that was mined near Älvdalen was placed. A later orangery is located near the castle .

After the death of Oscar II in 1913, the castle was converted into a museum about Charles XIV Johann and the Bernadotte dynasty . During the opening times in the summer months, visitors can view objects from the 1820s and 1830s, which are kept in the so-called Karl Johann style , the Swedish equivalent of the Empire style. The special features include the library, which shows Karl Johann's unchanged book collection, and Karl Johann's bedchamber, the furnishings of which were transferred from Stockholm Castle to Rosendal in 1913 .

The building is counted among the "ten royal castles" (castles owned by the royal family) of Sweden. Since 1935 it has been a listed building as Byggnadsminne .

Rosendals trädgård , the Rosendal garden, is just west of the castle . This was built between 1861 and 1911 with a greenhouse and tree nursery under the direction of the Swedish Garden Association (Svenska trädgårdsföreningen) .

More royal castles

Rosendal Palace is still one of the nine official royal castles in Sweden, all of which are visible at least in part: The Stockholm Royal Palace (the official residence of the King), Drottningholm Palace (residence of the King), Gripsholm Castle , Rosersberg Palace , strömsholm palace , Schloss Tullgarn , Castle Ulriksdal , the Hagapark (Haga Castle is the residence of the Crown Princess) and the park of the royal summer villa Solliden , which was built near Borgholm Castle , which has only survived as a ruin .

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Commons : Schloss Rosendal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 59 ° 19 ′ 44 ″  N , 18 ° 7 ′ 6 ″  E