Sturehov Manor

The Swedish Castle Sturehov emerged as an exempt farm and is located in the municipality of Lake Mälaren Botkyrka. Sturehov is now a conference center with an attached coffee shop.

The two-story main building is a typical example of the Gustavian style although about 100 years earlier resulting single-storey side wings have a different character. The castle was built in the 1780s by the architect Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz.

At the site of the present castle a village called Afrehulta was in the Middle Ages with four farmsteads. These were combined by the Reich Marshal Svante Sture the Younger, who was later murdered on the orders of King Erik XIV to a commodity. In the 1580s the estate was granted the status of a Säteri (tax- free good because rendered military service ) and Svante Sture's son Mauritz Sture gave him the name Sturehov. When he and his wife had died in 1654, Sturehov went by will to the Reich Marshal Johan Axelsson Oxenstierna. From 1661 other noble families such as Wrangel, Banér, Vellingk of Höpken, Liljencrantz, Wahrendorff, Piper, ermine and Reuterskiöld be lined up in the owners list. In 1900 the city of Stockholm bought the castle.

Pictures

View to Castle from the East

One of the wings

One of the outbuildings