Brogård, Manor house in Upplands-Bro Municipality, Sweden.
Brogård, also called Bro Hof Slott, is a palace-like manor house by Brofjärden in Bro socken, Upplands-Bro Municipality. The main building was erected in 1888 to drawings by architect Herman Holmgren, in brick under a black sheet-metal roof with off-white rendered façades. A lantern-crowned tower dominates the north side, and the main entrance is framed by a balcony carried on four columns of black polished granite.
Brogård was a royal estate in the Middle Ages, owned by the crown or state. In 1810 the Sparre family took over; Erik Josias Sparre sat in the Riksdag and promoted railways, while the estates decayed. Johan Sparre inherited Brogård in 1886, demolished the dilapidated red wooden main building in the 1870s, and had Herman Holmgren design the present brick manor, completed in 1888. Ebba Reuterskiöld sold it to KF in 1968; Björn Örås bought it in 2002.
The name Bro Hof Slott, adopted in 2004, comes with a coat of arms showing a lion on a bridge before a castle wall, a visual pun on "Bro" and "Hof". Its Latin motto, "traditio pons ad futurum", translates as "tradition is the bridge to the future". The estate also gave its name to the Brolimpan, a bread baked in Johan Sparre's bakery.
The golf facility has two 18-hole courses: the Stadium Course opened in 2006 and the Castle Course in 2009. The main building and some outbuildings serve as clubhouse and conference venue; the courses lie on former farmland by Brofjärden. The estate is in Bro socken, Upplands-Bro Municipality, northwest of Stockholm.
The manor's coat of arms, adopted when the golf club opened in 2006, shows a lion on a bridge before a castle wall, a visual pun on the name Bro Hof Slott. Beneath it runs the Latin motto "traditio pons ad futurum", meaning tradition is the bridge to the future.
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