Smedstorp Castle ( sv, Smedstorps slott) is a castle in

Tomelilla Municipality Tomelilla Municipality (''Tomelilla kommun'') is a municipality in Skåne County in southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the town Tomelilla. The municipality was formed through a series of amalgamations taking place in 1952, 1969 and 1971. T ...

Scania Scania, also known by its native name of Skåne (, ), is the southernmost of the historical provinces (''landskap'') of Sweden. Located in the south tip of the geographical region of Götaland, the province is roughly conterminous with Skå ...

, in southern Sweden.

History

Smedstorp is one of the older estates in Scania. It was for a long time the seat of the noble Swedish family Bing, between the years 1313–1589.

Anders Bing Anders is a male name in Scandinavian languages and Fering North Frisian, an equivalent of the Greek Andreas ("manly") and the English Andrew. It originated from Andres via metathesis. In Sweden, Anders has been one of the most common names fo ...

, who was a Danish "riksråd" (a member of the privy council) was the last in the family to own the estate. King James I was a guest of Anders Bing at Smedstorp, and dedicated him a poem, which can be read on the tombstone of Anders Bing at Smedstorp's church. After the Bing family, the estate was owned by the noble Quitzow, Bülow och Kruus families until 1640, when Smedstorp belonged to the Danish Stewart of the Realm Jochum Gersdorff. Upon the treaty in Roskilde 1658, Scania became Swedish, after previously having belonged to Denmark, and as part of the treaty the island of

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was to belong to Sweden. However, war broke out and the population of Bornholm revolted against the Swedish rule. Two years later, another peace treaty was agreed to, the

treaty of Copenhagen (1660) The Treaty of Copenhagen ( da, Freden i København, sv, Freden i Köpenhamn) was signed on 27 May 1660, and marked the conclusion of the Second Northern War between the Swedish Empire and the alliance of Denmark-Norway and the Polish–Lithuani ...

, and as compensation for the island of Bornholm, the Danish crown turned over 18 estates, owned by Danish noblemen, to the Swedish crown one of which was Smedstorp. The estate was known as "

Bornholm vederlagsgods Bornholm () is a Danish island in the Baltic Sea, to the east of the rest of Denmark, south of Sweden, northeast of Germany and north of Poland. Strategically located, Bornholm has been fought over for centuries. It has usually been ruled by ...

". Until 1713, the estate was used for Swedish officers, when it was given to Peter Monthan, whose son then sold it to the officer Nils Wilhelm Meck in 1781. In the early 19th century Smedstorp was once again sold to the general Carl Gustaf von Platen. In 1820 the estate was bought by the banker and member of parliament

Jöns Peter Hemberg Jöns Peter Hemberg (1763–1834) was a Swedish banker and member of parliament. He founded Skånes Enskilda Bank ("Skåne's Private Bank") in 1830, together with Gustav Berghman, and Gustaf Hagerman, which later merged with Skandinaviska Kredita ...

. Smedstorp then stayed in the Hemberg family for three generations, until 1895, when author and

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Eugen Hemberg was the last member of the family to own it.

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Castles in Skåne County {{Sweden-castle-stub

History

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