Hågelby gård, Manor estate in Botkyrka, Sweden

Hågelby gård is a manor estate whose main building, designed by Hjalmar Cederström and Uno Borg, has smooth-rendered facades, rusticated corners and a mansard roof. Several estate buildings were cast in reinforced concrete, a novelty in Sweden. A baroque-inspired park stretches from the entrance gate to Lake Aspen, with a lime avenue and a canal about 140 metres long.

Hågelby is first mentioned in writing in 1331, and the present estate was created between 1911 and 1922 by Lars Magnus Ericsson and his wife Hilda, who bought the farm in 1906 and moved there in 1916. They had the old farm buildings demolished and built a model estate with a manor house, farm buildings and a park. Their daughter Anna Giertz sold the estate to Botkyrka Municipality in 1964, and since 1975 it has been a public park.

The name Hågelby derives from the old form Hogslaby, still used for an Iron Age village near Aspen's shore. The rune stone Sö 288 by the car park records that the siblings Sibbe, Jorun, Torgun and Ingegärd raised it for their father Tjarve and Gudmod's husband. Lars Magnus Ericsson died at Hågelby in 1926 after a cerebral haemorrhage and is buried on the estate.

The grounds are open year-round and accessible by public transportation from Stockholm. Wear comfortable walking shoes since there are many paths and open areas to explore throughout the property.

The rune stone Sö 288 stands by the car park, moved but close to its original site. Its inscription names the siblings Sibbe, Jorun, Torgun and Ingegärd, who raised it for their father Tjarve and for Gudmod. The estate also had its own power station and was self-sufficient in electricity into the 1930s.