Sweden · Ruin
Borgholm Castle
Borgholm Castle is a large Swedish fortress on the island of Öland that was rebuilt as a 17th-century baroque palace and completed in the early 18th century. The palace was gutted by fire in 1806 and today survives as an open ruin managed by the Swedish state, with the inner courtyard used for events and a museum on the site.
Its prime
1709
Today
Ruin
As it stood in 1709
The shape it held in its prime.
As it stood in its prime, the castle was a compact, rectangular baroque palace raised on a stone bastion: three-storey wings forming a closed quadrangle with a long, regular façade pierced by rows of tall rectangular windows and a ground-level arcade of arches. Massive, cylindrical corner towers projected above the wings; the masonry of the lower bastion is visibly thicker with small arched openings. The complex sat on a slight rise above open meadowland on Öland, rooflines continuous across the wings.
Step inside
7 places to explore in 1709.
The record describes 7 distinct spots at Borgholm Castle — including 1 interior: upper gallery of the north wing. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
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See Borgholm Castle with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1709 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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