Kaggeholms gård is a manor in

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, Stockholm County,

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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 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 b ...

(1595–1661) acquired an estate on the island of Helgö 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 (23 May 1654 – 10 April 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 midd ...

(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

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as a training center for Kaggeholm College (''Kaggeholms folkhögskola'').

In popular culture

The castle served as the setting of the fictional

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Hillerska in Netflix's series ''Young Royals''.

References

External links

Kaggeholms slott website

Kaggeholms folkhögskola website
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