Alsters herrgård, Manor house and museum in Alster, Karlstad Municipality, Sweden.
The white wooden manor house stands on landscaped grounds with gardens, featuring period furnishings and traditional architectural elements from 1772.
Originally owned by King Gustav Vasa and later his son Charles IX, the estate burned down in 1760 and was reconstructed in its current form in 1772.
The upper floor houses an exhibition dedicated to Swedish poet Gustaf Fröding, who was born in this manor house in 1860.
The manor complex includes a café serving Swedish meals and pastries, shops selling regional crafts, and designated parking areas for visitors.
The estate maintains a collection project to establish a complete Fröding library, gathering all literature by and about the renowned Swedish poet.
Location: Karlstad Municipality
Inception: 1772
GPS coordinates: 59.39833,13.60222
Latest update: March 5, 2025 17:44
Sweden stretches from southern sand beaches to forests and tundra in the north. The country preserves records from several millennia: prehistoric rock carvings, Viking burial sites, medieval fortresses, and 18th century ironworks. The coastline includes limestone cliffs, archipelago islands, and wooden piers at small fishing villages. This collection takes you to historical places like Gammelstad Church Town, where hundreds of red wooden huts surround a medieval pilgrimage center, or the Stone Ship Monument at Kåseberga, where raised stones form the outline of a Viking ship. It also includes national parks such as Skuleskogen with its spruce forests and steep coasts, ironworks like Engelsberg where charcoal blast furnaces still stand, and museums like the Hallwyl collection in Stockholm. Visitors find island fortresses, peatlands, long-distance trails through arctic regions, and villages that show Swedish life from earlier centuries.
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