Five centuries of Sundby: A manor reborn on Ornö, amid lore of invasions and

In 1467, Sundby was a small farm on Ornö, a Stockholm Archipelago island, owned by the Tyskaorden. By the 1600s, it had grown to be a manor, passing through the hands of the Stiernsköld, Stierncrona, and Falkenberg families. Russian invasions in 1719 left Sundby in ruins. A new manor was built in 1720, in the Karolinsk style, by Evert Didrik Taube. Unfortunately, Sundby's original 17th-century house by Maren’s southern shore is now a ruin. Sundby became a fideikommiss, or hereditary estate, in the middle of the 1700s, and has been in the hands of the Stenbock family ever since. Today, it consists of forestry, real estate management, and tourism. Sundby's southern areas, with forests, hills, and open meadows, are part of the Sundby nature reserve.

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