Degernäs Manor ( sv, Degernäs herrgård) is a

manor house A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals w ...

located at the southernmost tip of lake

Möckeln Möckeln is a lake in Karlskoga and Degerfors Municipalities in Örebro County, Sweden. Except for the settlements surrounding the lake, Degernäs Manor is situated at the southernmost tip of the lake and Valåsen Manor just north of the V ...

Degerfors Municipality Degerfors Municipality (''Degerfors kommun'') is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Degerfors. The northern part of the municipality was before 1925 part of Karlskoga Municipality, from which it ...

Örebro County Örebro County ( sv, Örebro län) is a county or '' län'' in central Sweden. It borders the counties of Västra Götaland, Värmland, Dalarna, Västmanland, Södermanland and Östergötland. It is frequently culturally divided into the hilly n ...

. The manor house is surrounded by Degerfors

golf course A golf course is the grounds on which the sport of golf is played. It consists of a series of holes, each consisting of a tee box, a fairway, the rough and other hazards, and a green with a cylindrical hole in the ground, known as a "cup". Th ...

History

The building and its surroundings has traditionally been associated with Degerfors

Ironworks An ironworks or iron works is an industrial plant where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made. The term is both singular and plural, i.e. the singular of ''ironworks'' is ''ironworks''. Ironworks succeeded bloomeri ...

and the

Camitz family The Camitz family is a Swedish family, founded as an Austrian Silesian noble family, important to the industrial history of the broader Karlskoga–Degerfors-area. Where they managed ironworks. A member of the Camitz family, ironmaster Georg Cam ...

since the 17th century. J. Camitz enabled the creation of a park and a ''

corps de logis In architecture, a ''corps de logis'' () is the principal block of a large, (usually Classical architecture, classical), mansion or palace. It contains the principal rooms, state apartments and an entry.Curl, James Stevens (2006). ''Oxford Dict ...

'' at the estate. The manor house has ever since its completion, and the era of the Camitz family, been inhabited by the different managers of the local ironwork. Including members of Swedish

aristocratic Aristocracy (, ) is a form of government that places strength in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class, the aristocrats. The term derives from the el, αριστοκρατία (), meaning 'rule of the best'. At the time of the word's ...

families, e.g. the Camitz, Strokirk and af Chapman families. In 1936, John Bengtson acquired the estate. For some time during the 1930s, its park was used as a site for

scouting Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide youth movement employing the Scout method, a program of informal education with an emphasis on practical outdoor activities, including camping, woodcraft, aquatics, hiking, backpacking ...

, made possible by the Bengtson family.

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