Skokloster Castle
The Skokloster Castle , located in the Swedish province of Uppland in the community Håbo , is one of the most impressive testimonies of Sweden was a superpower.
The general Carl Gustav Wrangel began building the palace shortly after the end of the Thirty Years' War . Casper Vogell , with whom Wrangel already had contact in Germany , probably worked as an architect . Even Jean de la Vallée and Nicodemus Tessin. Ä can be linked to certain parts of the project. The castle has a square floor plan with four octagonal corner towers and an inner courtyard. Around 1670 the shell was completed and the equipment and furnishings of the castle began, which continued until 1700 and was never completed. The large ballroom is still a construction site with tools and other aids from the 17th century.
The castle changed hands several times in the following centuries and was sold to the state in 1967. It was then renovated, declared Byggnadsminne in 1971 and opened to the public.
The castle has largely retained its original appearance and furnishings to this day. The paintings and sculptures are unique, as is the armory and library. Some of the works of art on display come from the Prague art theft in the summer of 1648. Skokloster became the site of the famous Mannerist portrait of Emperor Rudolf II as Vertumnus , painted in 1591 by Giuseppe Arcimboldo .
Interior pictures
Web links
- Official website (Swedish, English)
- Entry at the Riksantikvarieämbetet
Individual proof
- ↑ The time is unclear, but must be after 1680, see: Jenny Öhman: The plundering of Prague 1648: A Swedish perspective. In: Early Modern Information 26, 2015, pp. 240–248.
Coordinates: 59 ° 42 ′ 11.5 ″ N , 17 ° 37 ′ 16.5 ″ E