Kaggeholms gård, a manor in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden, sits on an estate first mentioned in a land title document from 1287. During the 1500s, the farm was owned by members of the Grip and Bååt families. In 1647, Count Lars Kagg acquired an estate on the island of Helgö situated in Lake Mälaren which he named Kaggeholm.
In the 1720s, construction of the manor house began after drawings by Baroque architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger. The chateau-style Kaggeholm Castle received its present appearance in the middle of the 19th century.
Today Kaggeholm operates as a conference center managed by the Swedish property development company Sisyfosgruppen Holding. It had previously been used by the Swedish Pentecostal Movement as a training center for Kaggeholm College. The castle also served as the setting of the fictional boarding school Hillerska in the Netflix series Young Royals.
Sources: Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons
Written by Nik Frost
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