Kaggeholms gård is a manor at

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History

The site was first mentioned in a land title document in 1287. During the 1500s, the farm was owned by members of the Grip and

Bååt Bååt was an important Swedish noble family, originally from Småland in south-eastern Sweden. The family is especially known for its long association with Viipuri/ Vyborg Castle in Finland (at present in Russia), the bulwark of the then Swedis ...

families. In 1647, Count

Lars Kagg Lars Kagg (1 May 1595 – 19 November 1661) was a Swedish count and military officer. He was a political ally of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, a member of the Privy Council of Sweden and Field Marshal during the Thirty Years' War. Kagg was bor ...

(1595–1661) acquired an estate on the island of

Helgö Helgö is an island in Ekerö Municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden. Helgö is an island situated in Lake Mälaren. The island's greatest width is about , it is about long and covers . Excavations at Helgö The island is perhaps best known fo ...

situated in

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which he named Kaggeholm. In the 1720s, construction of the manor house began after drawings by Baroque architect

Nicodemus Tessin the Younger Count Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (May 23, 1654 – April 10, 1728) was a Swedish Baroque architect, city planner, and administrator. The son of Nicodemus Tessin the Elder and the father of Carl Gustaf Tessin, Tessin the Younger was the middle ...

(1654–1728). The chateau-style Kaggeholm Castle (''Kaggeholms slott'') received its present appearance in the middle of the 19th century when a number of major changes took place. Today Kaggeholm is operated as a conference center managed by the Swedish property development company Sisyfosgruppen Holding. It had previously been used by the Swedish Pentecostal Movement as a training center for Kaggeholm College (''Kaggeholms folkhögskola'').

In popular culture

The castle has been used as a private

boarding school A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction. The word "boarding" is used in the sense of "room and board", i.e. lodging and meals. As they have existed for many centuries, and now exten ...

in Netflix's series

Young Royals ''Young Royals'' is a Swedish teen drama romance streaming television series on Netflix. Set at the fictional elite boarding school Hillerska, the plot primarily follows the fictional Prince Wilhelm of Sweden (Edvin Ryding), his romance with ...

References

External links

Kaggeholms slott websiteKaggeholms folkhögskola website
Populated places in Ekerö Municipality Uppland Manor houses in Sweden {{Stockholm-geo-stub