Alnarp Castle is located in Alnarp, Lomma Municipality, Scania, approximately 10 km north of Malmö in southern Sweden. Lomma Municipality ( Lomma kommun) is a municipality in Skåne County in southern Sweden, about 10 km north of Malmö. Scania ( in Swedish and Danish) is a geographical region on the southernmost tip of the Scandinavian peninsula, a traditional province ( "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. The original castle on the property was built in the 12th century. The present building was erected in 1862, in Dutch Renaissance style. The Renaissance (from French Renaissance, meaning "rebirth" Italian: Rinascimento, from re- "again" and nascere
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History
The castle was mentioned for the first time in the 1100s. In 1325 it belonged to the knight Anders Pedersen. Anders Otto Petersen ( December 16, 1899 &ndash April 28, 1966) was a Danish Flyweight Professional and in 1400, the owner was Aage Nielsen Ulfeldt. In 1449, it had passed into the hands of Niels Stigsen Thott. The Ulfeldt and the Thott families were members of the old Scanian nobility. Through marriage, the castle eventually passed to the Krummedige family, and in 1500 it was owned by Erik Krummedige, an advisor to the Danish king. In 1536, Christian III took possession of the castle for the Danish state. Christian III ( August 12, 1503 &ndash January 1, 1559) king of Denmark and Norway, was the son of Frederick
After the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658, king Charles X Gustav of Sweden gave the castle to a his commandant of Malmö, Johan von Essen. The Treaty of Roskilde was signed on February 26, 1658 in the Danish city of Roskilde. Charles X Gustav (Karl X Gustav (8 November 1622 – 13 February 1660 was King of Sweden from 1654 until his death Commandant (pronounced /'cɒmʊndɑnt/ or /'cɒmʊndænt/ COM-un-dahnt, -dant is a military or police title or rank In 1660, Charles XI gave it to Gabriel Oxenstierna. Charles XI (Karl XI 24 November 1655old style &ndash 5 April 1697old style was King of Sweden from 1660 until his death in an unruly period in Count Gabriel Gustafsson Oxenstierna ( June 15 1587 – November 27 1640) Swedish statesman brother of Axel Oxenstierna, From 1694, it became the residence for the Governors-General of Sweden in Scania. A Governor-General, or generalguvernör, was appointed by the Swedish monarch as his permanent representative with both civil and military jurisdiction over parts
Today
The library of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences is housed in the castle, the largest library of its kind in Sweden. The castle park has the second largest collection of trees in Sweden when it comes to variety
References
- Åkesson, Sylve. Skånska slott och herresäten: Alnarp. Retrieved 18 January 2007.
External links
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Alnarp - Official site
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