The Swedish crown took Smedstorp Castle as compensation for Bornholm

Smedstorp Castle is located in Tomelilla Municipality, Scania, in southern Sweden. It is one of the older estates in the region and served for a long time as the seat of the noble Swedish family Bing between the years 1313 and 1589. Anders Bing, who was a Danish member of the privy council, was the last in the family to own the estate. King James I was a guest of Anders Bing at Smedstorp and dedicated him a poem, which can be read on his tombstone in the local church.

After the Bing family, the estate was owned by the noble Quitzow, Bülow, and Kruus families until 1640, when it belonged to the Danish Stewart of the Realm Jochum Gersdorff. Following the treaty in Roskilde in 1658, Scania became Swedish. However, because the population of Bornholm revolted against Swedish rule, another peace treaty was agreed to in 1660. As compensation for Bornholm, the Danish crown turned over 18 estates owned by Danish noblemen to the Swedish crown, one of which was Smedstorp. The estate was known as Bornholm vederlagsgods.

Until 1713, the estate was used for Swedish officers, then it was given to Peter Monthan, whose son sold it to the officer Nils Wilhelm Meck in 1781. In the early 19th century, Smedstorp was sold to the general Carl Gustaf von Platen. In 1820, the estate was bought by the banker and member of parliament Jöns Peter Hemberg. The Hemberg family owned Smedstorp for three generations until 1895, when author and forester Eugen Hemberg was the last member of the family to own it.

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