Teleborg Castle, Castle in Växjö, Sweden

Teleborg Castle is a three-storey brick building clad in red and grey granite, designed by Lindvall & Boklund and completed in 1900. It stands on a rocky promontory by Lake Trummen, with a square main tower in one corner and a smaller round tower in the opposite one. A one-storey entrance block with a green-studded door sits at the base of the round tower, and a stone staircase with a balustrade descends to a paved area.

Count Gustaf Fredrik Bonde af Björnö bought the Tuvan estate and had Lindvall & Boklund of Malmö build the castle, completed in 1900 as a belated wedding gift to his second wife Anna Koskull, his former ward. After the couple died, their nephew Christer Bonde inherited it in 1909 and ran a girls' boarding school and guesthouse. His son Fredrik Ulf Bonde sold it to Växjö city in 1964, ending the fideicommissum.

The name Teleborg comes from the village of Telestad, whose farms were merged into the Tuvan estate in the 1840s. Count Christer Bonde ran the castle as a girls' boarding school and guesthouse for a few years after 1909, and in 1931 he laid out the castle park. Today the castle is leased by R&C Gastronomi AB and used for restaurant and conference activities.

The castle sits in a park-like setting near Lake Trummen and is easy to reach on foot from central Växjö. A visit works at any time of year, though the gardens are at their best in spring and early summer.

The castle stands on a rocky promontory in Lake Trummen, and the estate it replaced, Tuvan, was home to poet Esaias Tegnér from 1825 to 1827 before he moved to the bishop's residence in Växjö. Count Gustav Fredrik Bonde af Björnö had the castle built as a somewhat belated wedding gift to his second wife Anna Koskull, for whom he had been guardian.