Vikingsberg is a villa with a surrounding park located in Helsingborg, Sweden. It was originally built as a timber-framed farm by the Barck family in 1875. However, it was Ryttarmästaren Georg Aminoff who bought the land and underwent a radical renovation of the main building, transforming it into a luxurious residence. The architect for the renovation was Mauritz Frohm, who drew inspiration from Petit Trianon in Versailles, constructing a classical white-painted building.
The villa rests on a gray-painted plinth, with basement windows adorned with ornaments that protrude past the sill and are topped by a corniches. The upper floor windows have brass window sills, and copper window sills marked by ornaments that reach up to the listers under the cornice. The windows are green-painted and feature crossed-window designs in the ground floor and central-window designs in the upper floor. Helsingborg's city took over management of Vikingsberg in 1924, making it a public kindergarten.
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Written by Nik Frost
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