CastleSkarhult

Skarhult Castle

Skarhult Castle

To be privately owned

Skarhult Castle is a castle in the Kästen parish in Eslöv. Skarhult (Skarholta, Skarolt) is first mentioned in the 14th Century in the possession of the Danish nobility Rosensparre. The castle was built in 1560 by Sten Skarholt Rosensparre on the walls of an older previous building. 1840 was Jules Schwerin renovating the castle.

Owners of the castle were:

14th Century - the Danish noble family Rosensparre
1624 Skarhult came by marriage to the family Ruud
Niels Trolle of Trolleholm (now Holsteinsborg) in Denmark
1661 sold Trolls son the castle to Count Friedrich Pontus De la Gardie
1759 Count Eric Brahe
1826 Charles XIV John
Baron von Schwerin

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Source: Wikipedia · Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Image: Skarhults Kulturminne / CC0 via Wikimedia Commons

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