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Hessenstein Palace

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Hessenstein Palace, a three-winged building on Riddarholmen, is in the Old Town of Stockholm, Sweden. It features Mannerist architecture.

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Around 1630, the palace was built for the Privy Councillor Bengt Bengtsson Oxenstierna. In 1670, Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstierna and Eva Juliana Wachtmeister acquired the property from a relative. Ten years later, in 1680, they commissioned Nicodemus Tessin the Younger for a reconstruction that gave the palace its current form, likely based on designs by his father, Nicodemus Tessin the Elder. King Frederick acquired the palace in 1734 and gifted it to his mistress, Countess Hedvig Ulrika Taube.

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