Kaggeholms gård

Kaggeholms gård

Kaggeholms gård, a manor in Sweden, is over 800 years old. Find out more about this remarkable piece of history.

Kaggeholms gård, a manor in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden, sits on an estate that has a history going back over 800 years. The site was first mentioned in a land title document from 1287, and during the 1500s, it 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. 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.

Sources: Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons

Written by Nik Frost

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