Castle
Svenstorp Castle
🇸🇪 Sweden · 16th century
Svenstorp Castle (Swedish: Svenstorps slott) is a castle in Lund Municipality, Scania, in southern Sweden. It was built in 1596 by Beate Huitfeldt, a powerful lady-in-waiting to the Danish King Christian IV. Her architect was Hans Steenwinkel.
In November 1676, the Danish king, Christian V, stayed at Svenstorp before the Battle of Lund. The night after the battle the Swedish king, Charles XI, whose troops had won the battle, stayed in the same room and the same bed.
Since 1723, the castle has been owned by the Gyllenkrok family. Today, Nils and Merrill Gyllenkrok and their family live at Svenstorp Castle.
Text adapted from “Svenstorp Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Svenstorp Castle ranks #3,066 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #82 of the 120 mapped in Sweden. Founded 1596, it is older than 37% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 437 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. See how Sweden compares in the castle statistics.
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