Tyresö Castle
Tyresö Castle is located in the Swedish municipality of Tyresö on a bay in the Baltic Sea about 18 km southeast of Stockholm .
The castle consists of a main building 40 meters long, 9 meters wide and 7 meters high on three floors with towers on each gable side. There are also two free-standing wing structures around 40 meters long. The western wing has one floor and the eastern wing has two floors and two towers with a copper roof.
In the west wing there is a restaurant, a café, a wine cellar and a conference facility. An English park adjoins the castle . On an island off the park there is a youth hostel , a café and a guest harbor for small boats. The building is now a listed building .
history
The first registered owner of the property was the Reichsrat Erengisle Nilsson. Then it changed between the noble families Blå, Lilje and Ryning.
The last owner of the family Ryning bequeathed it to her sister, who belonged to the family Oxenstierna . In 1624 Barbro Oxenstierna left the estate to her son, Reichsdrost Gabriel Gustafsson Oxenstierna, who is widely regarded as the builder of the current castle. The renovation of the building, which began around 1620, the oldest parts of which date from the 14th or 15th century, was completed under his leadership in 1633. Between 1638 and 1640 a church was built near the castle.
Gabriel Oxenstierna's widow, Maria Sofia De la Gardie , was the next owner of the castle. Among other things, she had a clothing factory, a porcelain factory and a rifle factory built, but these industrial efforts failed. In the following time the castle often changed hands. The building was given new splendor after 1892 under Landgrave Claes Lagergren , who gave the main building a new portal and external staircase, rebuilt the east wing and filled the castle with paintings, woven wallpaper, antique furniture and other works of art.
Claes Lagergren decreed in his will that the castle should be preserved as a document of the turn of the century and so it has been in the collection of the Nordic Museum since 1930 .
literature
- Tyresö Castle . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 30 : Tromsdalstind – Urakami . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1920, Sp. 540 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Web links
- Tyresö Castle. Nordic Museum (Swedish)
Coordinates: 59 ° 14 ′ 7 ″ N , 18 ° 18 ′ 17 ″ E