Sweden · 18th century
Almnäs slott is a château in the province of Västergötland, South-West Sweden, 5 km south of the town of Hjo.
The mansion was built in 1773-1776 by the General Wolter Reinhold Stackelberg. It is situated at a cove of a lake and is surrounded by notable park.
Later the property belonged to the families Sparre, Bielke, Horn, Ehrensten and others. It was purchased in 1859 by Gustaf Sparre, first speaker at the Swedish Parliament, and in 1898 by Baroness Marika Dickson from Gothenburg. Almnäs is not open to the public.
Text adapted from “Almnäs Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Almnäs Castle ranks #4,315 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #121 of the 209 mapped in Sweden. Founded 1776, it is older than 14% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 685 atlas entries founded in the 18th century. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Linköping, 81 km away. See how Sweden compares in the castle statistics.
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