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Knutstorp Castle
Knutstorps borg
Knutstorp Castle (Knutstorps Borg) is a red-brick manor house in Svalöv Municipality, Scania, Sweden. The main building was completed in 1551 and has been owned by successive noble families since the Middle Ages.
First raised
1551
Its prime
1551
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1551
What Knutstorp Castle looked like in its prime.
A rectangular, two-storey red-brick manor set on a low stone plinth, capped by a steep, long red-tiled roof with crow-stepped gables at each end and several brick chimneys. The south facade shows regularly spaced white‑mullioned windows and a projecting timber oriel with a small copper roof above the central entrance. A stone terrace with iron railings and steps leads down to formal hedged terraces and a wide clipped lawn, with mature trees at the sides.
Its story
The story of Knutstorp Castle.
The Danish Brahes at Knutstorp, to 1663
Knutstorp, in what is now Svalöv Municipality in Scania, was already a manor by the middle of the 14th century. From the end of the Middle Ages the estate was held by the Danish noble family of Brahe, whose tenure ran until 1663, after Scania was ceded to Sweden by the Treaty of Roskilde.
The main building was completed in 1551 by Otte Brahe (1518-1571), a privy councillor of the Danish crown, and his wife Beate Clausdatter Bille (1526-1605). Their children were born on the estate, among them the astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) and his sister Sophia Brahe (1556-1643), herself an astronomer.
The Wachtmeister Purchase, 1771
The estate was sold in 1771 to the Swedish count Fredrik Georg Hans Carl Wachtmeister af Johannishus (1720-1792), and it has belonged to members of his family since.
Step inside
7 places to explore in 1551.
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Clans who held Knutstorp Castle.
The families that held Knutstorp Castle for a decade or more across its history, follow a name to its clan.
Brahe
Owned by the Danish Brahe noble family from the end of the Middle Ages until 1663.
Wachtmeister
Bought in 1771 by Count Fredrik Wachtmeister af Johannishus; held by his family since.
From the archive
Knutstorp Castle on paper: the measured plan and period views.
The survey plan and photographs below are the ground truth this page's reconstructions are checked against, drawn and photographed while the castle was still a working garrison. Every image is public-domain or openly licensed, with its source named.
Knutstorp i vinterskrud.
· Västergötlands Museum (via Europeana)
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