Össjö Castle () is a manor house in
Ängelholm Municipality
Ängelholm Municipality () is a Municipalities of Sweden, municipality in Scania County in South Sweden in southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the city Ängelholm.
In 1971 the ''City of Ängelholm'' was amalgamated with the rural municipalit ...
in
Scania
Scania ( ), also known by its native name of Skåne (), is the southernmost of the historical provinces of Sweden, provinces () of Sweden. Located in the south tip of the geographical region of Götaland, the province is roughly conterminous w ...
,
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
. The estate is situated approximately east of
Ängelholm
Ängelholm is a urban areas of Sweden, locality and the seat of Ängelholm Municipality in Skåne, Scania, Sweden with 42,131 inhabitants in 2017.
History
The city was founded in 1516 as Engelholm by King Christian II of Denmark, who moved the se ...
. The manor house, a two-story stone structure in
Empire style
The Empire style (, ''style Empire'') is an early-nineteenth-century design movement in architecture, furniture, other decorative arts, and the visual arts, representing the second phase of Neoclassicism. It flourished between 1800 and 1815 duri ...
, was built between 1814 and 1815 by Adolf Fredrik Tornérhielm. The property area is 1,400 hectares and covers both fields and woodland.
References
External links
Össjö gård website
See also
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List of castles in Sweden
This is a list of castles and palaces in Sweden.
In the Swedish language the word ''slott'' is used for both castles, châteaux and palaces; this article lists all of them as well as fortresses.
A–B
C–E
F–H
I–L
M–P
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Manor houses in Sweden
Houses completed in 1815
Ängelholm Municipality
1815 establishments in Sweden
19th-century establishments in Kristianstad County
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