Sturehov Castle
The Swedish Sturehov Castle was built as a tax-exempt manor and is located in the municipality of Botkyrka on Lake Mälaren . Sturehov is now a conference venue with an attached café.
The two-storey main building is a typical example of the Gustavian style, although the single-storey side wings, which were built around 100 years earlier, have a different character. The castle was built in the 1780s according to plans by the architect Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz .
In the Middle Ages, there was a village called Afrehulta with four farmsteads on the site of today's castle . These were given by the Reich Marshal Svante Sture the Elder. J. , who was later murdered on the orders of King Erik XIV., Combined into one estate. In the 1580s the estate was given the status of a Säteri (tax-free estate due to military service) and Svante Sture's son Mauritz Sture gave it the name Sturehov. When he and his wife died in 1654, Sturehov sent a will to Reichsmarschall Johan Axelsson Oxenstierna . From 1661, other noble families such as Wrangel , Banér , Vellingk , von Höpken , Liljencrantz , Wahrendorff , Piper , Hermelin and Reuterskiöld joined the list of owners. In 1900 the city of Stockholm bought the castle. Since 1982 it has been a listed building as Byggnadsminne .
photos
East facade of the main building
View to the castle from the east
One of the wing structures
One of the farm buildings
literature
- Sturehov Castle . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 27 : Stockholm-Nynäs järnväg – Syrsor . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1918, Sp. 514 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Web links
- Sturehov Castle (Swedish, English)
- Entry in the bebyggelseregistret des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
Coordinates: 59 ° 15 ′ 28.4 " N , 17 ° 45 ′ 31.2" E