#Gabriel Gustafsson Oxenstierna

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Tyresö Palace, Sweden (No. 10)

For eighteen summers, Prince Eugen lived at Lilla Tyresö in the house called the Prince’s Villa, which is a youth hostel today. Here he was undisturbed and could enjoy the nature and the landscape, which also served as the motif for some of his most famous paintings. Other artists regularly visited Prince Eugen while he was staying at Lilla Tyresö, which can be described as having been an artists’ colony during the years 1894–1912.

You can read more in the book Tyresö Palace. This tells of the buildings and parks, and also about the owners of the palace, the servants and visiting artists. The book is available in both Swedish and English.

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Tyresö Palace, Sweden (No. 7)

The castle building currently contains about 85 rooms. The main building has attic and basement. In the basement in the 17th century there was the kitchen and archive. From 1993 to 1997, the Nordic Museum carried out an extensive interior and exterior renovation of the castle. The west wing not fully completed under Lagergren is currently used as a restaurant. In connection with the renovation, the interiors were recreated as they looked when the Lagergren family lived here. During the summer months, the ground floor of the castle is open for public visits. The castle includes a farm wing that is rented as a private residence.

Nearby is "Åliden", the home of the willix forester family that was built in the 1920s. The house with a steep, valmat roof and originally quarryed with reeds (later replaced with sheet metal) had its model in similar buildings from 18th century France. The house is currently (2013) empty. East of the castle is "Lilla Tyresö" with Prinsvillan which was rented by Prince Eugen some summers between 1894 and 1909. The buildings are currently used by the Swedish Tourist Association as hostels.

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Tyresö Palace, Sweden (No. 1)

Tyresö Palace (Swedish:Tyresö slott) is a 17th-century palace in Tyresö, Stockholm County, Sweden, about 25 km south-east of central Stockholm.

The construction of the palace began in the 1620s and completed in 1636 by the Lord High Steward (Swedish: riksdrots) Gabriel Oxenstierna. He also constructed the nearby Tyresö Church (Swedish:Tyresö kyrka), which was inaugurated with his own burial in 1641.

The palace was inherited in 1648 by Maria Sofia De la Gardie, who had married Gustaf Gabrielsson Oxenstierna, nephew of Swedish Regent and Lord High Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna. Both she and her husband's family were extremely wealthy. Maria Sofia resided in Tyresö Palace, from where she managed her estates around the Baltic Sea, until 1694. Between 1699 and 1737, the writer Maria Gustava Gyllenstierna lived at the palace.

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Tyresö Palace, Sweden (No. 9)

The palace has changed during its almost 400-year history. A visit to the home of the Lagergren family is a fascinating journey through different layers of time. Today one can see an upper-class home with rooms filled with furniture, paintings, engravings, photographs, books, ornaments and travel souvenirs, arranged in a manner that is typical of its time. The ground floor has eight salons, a dining room, serving room, breakfast room, study and library. Upstairs there are bedrooms, guest rooms and a private chapel, and also an exclusive bathroom from the 1920s.

Tyresö Palace was a large workplace with an impressive staff of employees. In the time of the Lagergren family, the east wing had servants’ quarters, utility rooms and a kitchen. Round about the estate a number of houses, still standing, were built to accommodate employees.

Claes Lagergren bequeathed Tyresö Palace to Nordiska museet in 1930. Since 1932 is has been open to the public in the summer.

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Tyresö Palace, Sweden (No. 8)

Tyresö Palace is a stately home belonging to Nordiska museet, located in the municipality of Tyresö in Södertörn, south of Stockholm. It is in a beautiful location, surrounded by a garden and an English park, at the highest point of a peninsula jutting into the Kalvfjärden fjord. The palace was built in the 1630s but visitors today see what it looked like as a private residence around 1900.

Gabriel Oxenstierna, Councillor of the Realm, inherited the medieval Tyresö and built the present palace and Tyresö Church in the 1630s. In the 1770s the palace was modernized and an English park – the first of its kind in Sweden – was designed by the landscape gardener Fredrik Magnus Piper.

Today the palace shows an environment from the years around 1900. Here in the natural beauty of Tyresö the last private owners, Claes and Caroline Lagergren, wanted to create a magnificent and comfortable home for themselves and their three sons.

Marquis Claes Lagergren was a papal chamberlain and a familiar figure in Stockholm at the turn of the century. During most of his life he served for several weeks each year at the Vatican in Rome. There he met his wife, the wealthy American Caroline Russell from New York. With her fortune they were able to buy the Tyresö estate in 1892, and shortly afterwards they began a thorough renovation and expansion of the entire property. The restoration, which was a romantic interpretation of the look of the seventeenth-century palace with certain additions, was undertaken by Isak Gustaf Clason, the architect of Nordiska museet. With inspiration from Rome and Italy, the garden was also renewed with pergolas, steps and terraces. The surroundings were embellished with the plantation of thuja, spruce pyramids, roses, peonies and fruit trees.

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Tyresö Palace, Sweden (No. 6)

In the old stables and carriage sheds there is a Commercial Garden and a Craft Town.

In the castle's two wings, different activities are carried out - In one wing there is the Borggård café with outdoor seating in the courtyard, Room for Health which is a spa & gift shop. In the second wing there is Tyresö Slottskrog with outdoor seating overlooking the park as well as banquet hall, event & conference.

Below the castle on a small hill you will find Tyresö Church & and also Prinsvillan which is now a hostel that has been named "little Tyresös hostel". The prince's villa was inhabited by Prince Eugen some summers between 1894 and 1909 (hence the name), but only the shop is now used as a hostel.

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Tyresö Palace, Sweden (No. 5)

Since the estate's creation in the Middle Ages and until the beginning of the 20th century, the castle building has undergone several changes. The marquis claes Lagergren made a big impression, who from 1892 until his death in 1930 transformed Tyresö Castle with Isak Gustaf Clason as architect. Both created today's castles in a national romantic style with the 17th century castle as a source of inspiration. Today Tyresö Castle is a good example of how the courage and demands for accommodation for the higher estate have changed over the centuries.

Since the 1930s Tyresö Castle has been owned and managed by the Nordic Museum. In 1991, the castle and associated buildings and land became a state building. From 1993 to 1997, the Nordic Museum carried out an extensive interior and exterior renovation of the building. The castle includes an English park, the first to be built in Sweden by the garden architect Fredrik Magnus Piper. In the castle's wings there is a café, spa & treatments as well as a tavern

On Notholmen there is a café and a guest harbour, this is located on a small island that is reached via a bridge from the castle park on the south side, i.e. behind the castle.

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Tyresö Palace, Sweden (No. 3)

Tyresö Castle is located in Tyresö parish in Tyresö municipality on Södertörn in Södermanland. The estate is first mentioned with the names Tyrisedhe, Tyrizö, later Töresö, Torso and during the 18th century Tyresjö. Tyresö Castle was until the 1930s one of the largest estate complexes in the Stockholm area and at the same time one of the oldest dating back at least from the 14th century. 

Tyresö Castle Area is scenically located at the innermost part of Kalvfjärden, 18 kilometres south-east of Stockholm. The main building is about 40 meters long, 9 meters wide and 9.5 meters high. It consists of three floors and has two gable towers. Even the two freestanding wings are about 40 meters long. They have two floors and both are crowned by two towers with copper-coated spires. The castle also includes Tyresö Church, which is a well-preserved example of the few church buildings that were built in the countryside during Sweden's great power era. The developer of both the castle and the church was the baron Gabriel Gustafsson Oxenstierna.

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