Edsbergs slott (Edsberg Manor) is a manor house and estate located by the bay of

Edsviken Edsviken is an elongated, narrow inlet of the Baltic Sea running through the Swedish municipalities of Danderyd, Solna and Sollentuna in Stockholm County. Edsviken ranges from Stocksund and Bergshamra, Solna in the south to Edsberg in the north ...

Sollentuna Municipality Sollentuna Municipality ( ) is a municipality in Stockholm County in east-central Sweden, north of Stockholm. Its seat of local government is located in Tureberg, which is a part of Sollentuna urban area. Geography Sollentuna borders the m ...

, north of Stockholm, Sweden.

History

The building was constructed around 1630 as an estate for Henrik Olofsson. It was very soon after completion signed over to count

Gabriel Bengtsson Oxenstierna Gabriel Bengtsson Oxenstierna af Korsholm och Wasa, 1st Count of Korsholma and Vaasa, Finnish: ''Gabriel Pentinpoika Oxenstierna'', (18 March 1586 at Lindholmen Castle, Västergötland – 12 December 1656 at Edsberg Manor, Sollentuna) was a ...

(1586–1656) who changed it into a manor in 1647. Queen

Christina of Sweden Christina ( sv, Kristina, 18 December ( New Style) 1626 – 19 April 1689), a member of the House of Vasa, was Queen of Sweden in her own right from 1632 until her abdication in 1654. She succeeded her father Gustavus Adolphus upon his death ...

visited and stayed in the house in 1645. In 1670, when the manor had been inherited by the son Gabriel Gabrielsson Oxenstierna, King

Charles XI of Sweden Charles XI or Carl ( sv, Karl XI; ) was King of Sweden from 1660 until his death, in a period of Swedish history known as the Swedish Empire (1611–1721). He was the only son of King Charles X Gustav of Sweden and Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein- ...

and the Queen Dowager

Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp (23 October 1636 – 24 November 1715) was Queen of Sweden from 1654 until 1660 as the wife of King Charles X Gustav. She served as regent during the minority of her son, King Charles XI, from 1660 until 1672, ...

came for a visit. The manor later belonged to the Rudbeck family, the first of which was the

Governor of Stockholm The Governor of Stockholm ( sv, överståthållaren) was the head of the Office of the Governor of Stockholm ( sv, Överståthållarämbetet, ÖÄ), and as such he was the highest Swedish State official overseeing the affairs in the City of Stoc ...

, Thure Gustaf Rudbeck (1714-1786). In 1760 he replaced the old wooden construction with the stone building still in standing and in use today. The main building was most likely designed by architect Carl Wijnblad in simplified French

rococo Rococo (, also ), less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, ...

style and had two floors, plastered façade and two wings.

Malla Silfverstolpe Magdalena Sofia "Malla" Silfverstolpe (''née'' Montgomery; 8 February 1782 – 17 January 1861) was a Swedish writer and salon hostess. Her house in Uppsala was a meeting place for many prominent writers, composers and intellectuals. Her diar ...

(1782-1861), the grand daughter of Thure Gustaf Rudbeck, grew up in the estate. Her diary gives a vivid and fascinating account of life at Edsberg during this time. Edsviks konsthall

Present time

Members of the Rudbeck family were owners of the estate for about 200 years, upon which the county of Sollentuna assumed ownership in 1959. Edsberg has undergone extensive renovation in the 1990s and 2006, and some parts are open to the public today. The manor housed Sveriges Radios Musikskola (music school of the Swedish National Radio). It now houses Edsbergs Musikinstitut; the independent

chamber music Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numb ...

division of the

Royal College of Music The Royal College of Music is a music school, conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the Undergraduate education, undergraduate to the Doctorate, doctoral level in a ...

. Students from the

spend full semesters at the estate for specialized classes in piano, violin, viola and cello, with emphasis on

. Edsvik Konsthall, an art gallery, is also located on the premises. The grounds of Edsbergs Castle have also housed several outdoor festivals in the summer. Sollentuna Rock & Blues Festival and Schools Out Festival have both been held several times on the estate.

Teachers at Edsberg

Ellen Nisbeth Ellen Nisbeth (born 1987) is a Swedish violist. She performed on Britta Byström’s CD, “Invisible Cities” and on Ensemble Ernst’s CD, “...BUT...” As part of the European Concert Hall Organisation's "Rising Star" program, Nisbeth per ...

, viola

References

Manor houses in Sweden {{Sweden-castle-stub

History

Present time

Teachers at Edsberg

See also

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