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Kaggeholms Gård
Kaggeholms gård is a manor in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. History The site was first mentioned in a land title document from 1287. During the 1500s, the farm was owned by members of the Grip and Bååt families. In 1647, Count Lars Kagg (1595–1661) acquired an estate on the island of Helgö situated in Lake Mälaren which he named Kaggeholm. In the 1720s, construction of the manor house began after drawings by Baroque architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (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 operates 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 served as the setting of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helgö
Helgö is an island in Ekerö Municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden. It is situated in the lake Mälaren. The island's greatest width is about , it is about long and covers . Excavations at Helgö The island is perhaps best known for a major archaeological area. The old trading town on Helgö began to emerge around the year 200 AD, 500 years before Birka at Björkö, Ekerö, Björkö. The first archaeological dig in 1954 uncovered the remains of the early settlement, including a workshop area which attracted international interest. The most notable finds included a small Gautama Buddha, Buddha statuette from Gupta Empire, North India and a christening scoop from Egypt, both dating from the 6th century. The Indian Buddha statuette, the Irish crozier and the Egyptian Copts, Coptic scoop which were found on Helgö, are presently on display in the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm. Kaggeholm Castle The site where Kaggeholms gård, Kaggeholm Castle (''Kaggeholms slott'') is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Populated Places In Ekerö Municipality
Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the resident population size within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals, microorganisms, and plants, and has specific uses within such fields as ecology and genetics. Etymology The word ''population'' is derived from the Late Latin ''populatio'' (a people, a multitude), which itself is derived from the Latin word ''populus'' (a people). Use of the term Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined feature in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species which inhabit the same geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where interbreeding is possible between any opposite-sex pair within the area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
