Hildesborg, Manor house in Landskrona Municipality, Sweden.
Hildesborg is a manor house in Härslöv parish, Landskrona Municipality. Its main building is a two-storey block of pale masonry under a dark hipped and gabled roof, with chimneys at the roofline. The left end projects as a three-bay pedimented section whose ground floor forms a flat-roofed portico of four plain columns carrying a balustraded balcony with three windows behind; climbing greenery covers the ground-floor wall between the windows of the main facade.
In the 18th century, several crofts and farms in the Hilleshög valleys were merged into one estate, which received the name Hildesborg in 1806. The Stiernblad family built a brickworks that went bankrupt in 1819, after which merchant Frans J. Wong bought the property; his son enlarged and extended the main building in the 1840s. Count and governor Gotthard Wachtmeister took over in 1871, moved the brickworks to the valley mouth and added another storey to the manor.
The estate's name, Hildesborg, was adopted in 1806, when scattered crofts and farms in the Hilleshögs dalar valleys had been gathered into one property. Count Gotthard Wachtmeister, owner from 1871, was well regarded in Härslöv parish: he built a small school at Hildesborg and gave land for a preschool. The property today includes the Hilleshögs dalar nature reserve, with grazing land, small woods and Bronze Age graves.
The estate lies in Härslöv parish in Landskrona Municipality, with the main building at coordinates 55.91767, 12.81057. The grounds take in the Hilleshögs dalar nature reserve, whose pastures, small woods, Bronze Age graves and Karl XII's redoubts are reached on foot. The reserve also gives a wide view over the Öresund, the island of Hven and Denmark.
Wilhelmina von Hallwyl gave Hildesborg to her grandson Rolf de Maré in 1912; the Danish source says 1922. The estate also holds the Hilleshögs dalar nature reserve, with Bronze Age graves, Karl XII's redoubts and a view over the Öresund towards Ven and Denmark.
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