Djursholm Castle (''Djursholms slott'') is a castle in

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Djursholm Djursholm () is one of four suburban districts in, and the seat of Danderyd Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. Djursholm is included in the multi-municipal Stockholm urban area. Djursholm is divided into a number of different areas: Djursho ...

is located in

Danderyd Municipality Danderyd Municipality (; ) is a municipality north of Stockholm in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. It is one of the smallest municipalities of Sweden, but the most affluent. Its seat is located in Djursholm and it is located within Stoc ...

, within

Stockholm urban area The Stockholm urban area () is the largest and most populous of the statistical localities or urban areas in Sweden. It has no administrative function of its own, but constitutes a continuous built-up area, which extends into 11 municipalities in ...

. The castle includes building components from the late Middle Ages. It was the main building on the

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Djursholm, which was owned by the House of Banér from 1508 to 1813. Nils Eskilsson (Banér), who was lord of Djursholm 1508 to 1520, built a new palace at the place where Djursholm Castle remains. Djursholm Castle was the residence of both Privy Councillour

Gustaf Banér Gustaf Banér (May 19, 1547 – March 20, 1600) was a Swedish nobleman who served as a member of the Privy Council of Sweden. Life Gustaf Axelsson Banér was born at Djursholm Castle, the son of the Privy Counselor Axel Nilsson Banér and Margar ...

and his son, Field Marshal

Johan Banér Johan Banér (23 June 1596 – 10 May 1641) was a Swedish field marshal in the Thirty Years' War. Early life Johan Banér was born at Djursholm Castle in Uppland. As a four-year-old he was forced to witness the execution of his father, the ...

. Svante Gustavsson Banér gave the castle its present appearance in the 17th century. By the mid 17th century the castle was its present size. The main hall was fitted at this time, with plaster ceilings, stairs castle was of limestone and oak, and walls hung with art wallpaper full of gilt leather ( leather wallpaper) and other materials.

History

Ekeby farm was donated to St. Clara monastery by King Magnus Ladulås in 1288, and in the early 15th century, the monastery's property also included Ösby farm and the island that is now called Gamla Djursholm and has become a peninsula due to land raising.

Nils Jönsson (Oxenstierna) Nils Jönsson Oxenstierna (1390s–1450s) was a Swedish nobleman. During the Kalmar Union, he was co-regent of Sweden, together with his brother Bengt Jönsson Oxenstierna (1390s–1450s) from January to June 1448. He was a member of the Pr ...

bought Djursholm in 1418 and had the first castle built on Gamla Djursholm, which due to its location had a natural moat and control over part of the shipping into Stockholm and other parts of the interior. Information is found in old rhyming chronicles that he engaged in "piracy" and harbored pirates in his house on the islet who boarded ships that would deliver goods into Stockholm via the western side of Lidingölandet, but may also have been a right to levy customs duties. For nearly 300 years, from the end of the 15th century until the mid-1770s, the entire Lidingön belonged to Djursholm's estate. Lidingö came to belong to Djursholm through Ingeborg Larsdotter Tott, who in her second marriage married Councilor Nils Eskilsson (Banér) (1480–1520). In 1891, Djursholms secondary school (''Djursholms samskola'') was started in the building. Until 1910, Djursholms secondary school operated on the premises. The first inspector of Djursholms samskolas was author

Viktor Rydberg Abraham Viktor Rydberg (; 18 December 182821 September 1895) was a Swedish writer and a member of the Swedish Academy, 1877–1895. "Primarily a classical idealist", Viktor Rydberg has been described as "Sweden's last Romantic" and by 1859 wa ...

. Among the earliest teachers were

Erik Axel Karlfeldt Erik Axel Karlfeldt (20 July 1864 – 8 April 1931) was a Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him the 1931 Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously after he had been nominated by Nathan Söd ...

and Alice Tegner. Writer

Elsa Beskow Elsa Beskow ( Maartman; 11February 187430June 1953) was a famous Swedes, Swedish author and illustrator of Children's literature, children's books. Among her better known books are ''Tale of the Little Little Old Woman'' and ''Aunt Green, Aunt B ...

was an art teacher and her husband, theologian

Natanael Beskow Fredrik Natanael Beskow (9March 18658October 1953) was a Swedish theologian and school headmaster. He was also active as a preacher, writer, artist, pacifist and social activist. Beskow published a number of collections of sermons. He also made ...

served as the headmaster of the school from 1897 to 1909. In the 1890s, the castle was restored in neo-Baroque style. Facade design was simplified by a new restoration from 1959 to 1961. A new entrance with modern suitability to the castle was built on the north side in 2003. Today it serves as the community center (''kommunhus'') in Danderyd Municipality.

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*Renqvist, K.E. ''Djursholm – vår hembygd'' (1961) Buildings and structures in Stockholm Castles in Stockholm County Danderyd Municipality

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