Ekebyholm Castle, Castle building near Lake Syningen, Norrtälje Municipality, Sweden
Ekebyholm Castle is a castle building in Norrtälje Municipality, set on elevated ground directly beside Lake Syningen. The structure shows traces of several construction phases and today serves as the main building of Ekebyholmsskolan school.
The Oxenstierna family acquired the estate in the 17th century, and Bengt Bengtson Oxenstierna began building the original manor house. From 1932 onwards, an Adventist educational institution took over the building and has run it as a school ever since.
The name Ekebyholm refers to an old Swedish term connected to oak groves, which still fits the wooded setting around the property. Visitors walking the grounds today see a building that is part of an active school day, with students moving through spaces that once belonged to nobility.
The grounds can be explored on foot along maintained paths that run beside the lake and through the wooded parts of the property. As the castle functions as an active school, access to the interior of the building is generally not open to outside visitors.
Although the building has been used as a school for nearly a century, the original manor structure remains largely intact and clearly readable from the outside. The Adventist community that has run the property since 1932 is one of the few religious groups in Sweden to operate a historic manor as a working school.
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