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Skånelaholm Castle

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The castle contains many preserved historical interiors. The first floor was the main representative floor and contains the dining room, a room of 17th-century character, and a
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and the building attained its present ornate decoration, as well as its present colour. It lies on a peninsula in a small lake,
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during the 19th century. The main building is flanked by four low wings, built during the middle of the 18th century.
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until 1918. The last private owner of the estate was Herbert and Ing-Marie Rettig, who donated the castle to the
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extraction in service of the Swedish king (not to be confused with the more notorious
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in order to preserve it. Today, the academy owns and administers the estate.
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in 1742 and made Skånelaholm Castle the seat of his family. It stayed in the
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The castle was probably built in 1639–1643 and is in a German-Dutch late
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and another drawing-room, called the "blue drawing-room". It contains
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Skånelaholm Castle, drawing from 1759 drawn up by Carl Gustaf Tessin.
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but settled in Sweden and made a large fortune as a merchant in
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Skånelaholm Castle with two of the wings, view from north east
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Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities
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to Sko Abbey, a monastery at the site of present-day
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Sigtuna Municipality
Sweden

59°34′42″N 17°56′09″E / 59.57833°N 17.93583°E / 59.57833; 17.93583
Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities
Swedish
Sigtuna Municipality
Stockholm County
Sweden
cultural landscape
crown estate
Middle Ages
Magnus III
Skokloster Castle
Reformation
Gustav Vasa
Livonian
Johann Patkul
Andreas Gyldenklou
Frans Jennings
Ireland
Stockholm
Swedish nobility
Jennings family
Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities

Renaissance style
brick
stucco
Lake Fysingen

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