Svea Court of Appeal ( sv, Svea hovrätt), located in

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, is one of six

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in the

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legal system. It is located in the

Wrangel Palace Wrangel Palace () is a townhouse mansion on Riddarholmen islet in Gamla Stan, the old town of Stockholm, in Sweden. Courthouse Since 1756 the palace has housed Svea Court of Appeal (''Svea Hovrätt''), the regional court of appeal. History Wrange ...

, on

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islet in

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, the old town of Stockholm.

History

The Svea Court of Appeal was founded in 1614 and was the highest court in Sweden until 1789, when the Supreme Court of Sweden was established. Among people sentenced to death by the court was

Nicolaus Olai Campanius Nicolaus Olai Campanius (1593–1624), also known as Nolandus, was a Swedish Catholic convert and Rector of a school in Enköping. He was born in 1593 in Gävle to a family of a sexton, hence his Latin name. After several years of study at the ...

, convicted of being a Catholic, and

Jacob Johan Anckarström Jacob Johan Anckarström (11 May 1762 – 27 April 1792) was a Swedish military officer who is known as the assassin of King Gustav III of Sweden. He was convicted and executed for regicide. Life He was the son of Jacob Johan Anckarström the ...

, convicted of the assassination of

Gustaf III of Sweden Gustav III (29 March 1792), also called ''Gustavus III'', was King of Sweden from 1771 until his assassination in 1792. He was the eldest son of Adolf Frederick of Sweden and Queen Louisa Ulrika of Prussia. Gustav was a vocal opponent of what h ...

Buildings

The Svea Court of Appeal is located in several buildings on Riddarholmen. Apart from the Wrangel Palace, which is the main building, it also has divisions in i.a. the Hessenstein Palace, the

Stenbock Palace The Stenbock family is an old Swedish noble family, of which one younger branch established itself in Finland and another younger branch in Estonia, both of them in the mid 18th century, of which the first was entered into the rolls of the Finnis ...

and the Schering-Rosenhane Palace.

Literature

* Korpiola, Mia (ed.): ''The Svea Court of Appeal on the Early Modern Period: Historical Reinterpretations and New Perspectives.'' (Rättshistoriska studier, 26.) Stockholm: Institutet för Rättshistorisk Forskning, 2014. .

External links

Svea Court of Appeal website

Svea Court of Appeal — Website in English
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