Styresholm was a
medieval fortress
Medieval fortification refers to medieval military methods that cover the development of fortification construction and use in Europe, roughly from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the Renaissance. During this millennium, fortifica ...
near the present-day community of
Kramfors. Today it is on the banks of the
Ångermanälven, although in the 14th century it was on an island in the river, as the water level was some 5 metres higher than today.
The fortress was built by the pirat group
vitalien brothers in the late 14th century as one of a series of fortresses in the
Gulf of Bothnia
The Gulf of Bothnia (; fi, Pohjanlahti; sv, Bottniska viken) is divided into the Bothnian Bay and Bothnian Sea, and it is the northernmost arm of the Baltic Sea, between Finland's west coast ( East Bothnia) and the Sweden's east coast (West ...
. The name is first recorded in 1398 when its ownership was transferred to
Queen Margaret I; a Danish governor was appointed in 1400.
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Forts in Sweden