Ryholm, Manor building in Töreboda Municipality, Sweden.
Ryholm is a manor in Beatebergs parish, Töreboda Municipality, with a castle-like main building of stone near Lake Viken, surrounded by gardens and parkland. About 3.5 km west of Beateberg, it once had a peat factory nearby, built in 1907 with a 600 mm peat railway and a 2.75 km cableway to a peat bale store by the lake.
Ryholm was a säteri owned in the first half of the 17th century by the royal councillor Baron Klas Kristersson Horn. It passed to his son-in-law Major Otto von Rulshausen, then to another son-in-law Baron Per Sparre (died 1669), and later to Major General Baron Carl Sparre and through his daughter to Governor Count Adam Otto Lagerberg. In the 19th century it belonged to Chief Gamekeeper K. M. Fleetwood, Colonel Baron G. F. A. Sture and his son Sten Sture, Captain Laurentius Bergendahl, his son K. G. Bergendahl, and Stockholm merchant Anton Bexelius.
The building shows traditional Swedish manor architecture and reflects the economic history of the region. Its connection to local peat production shaped the character of the place.
Ryholm lies 3.5 km west of Beateberg in Töreboda Municipality, by Lake Viken. The manor is private, so visitors view the stone main building, gardens and park from outside. A 600 mm peat railway and a 2.75 km cableway to the lake once served the peat factory; both were dismantled after 1920.
A 600 mm narrow-gauge peat railway ran from the Ryholm factory into the Ryholm bog, and a roughly 2.75 km aerial ropeway carried peat bales to a store by Lake Viken. Factory and ropeway were built in 1907; the plant never reached its planned scale, closed in 1920 and the ropeway was dismantled.
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