Skinnskattebergs herrgård, Manor house in Skinnskatteberg, Sweden.
Skinnskattebergs herrgård is a two-story stone manor with distinctive mansard roofing and white plastered walls. The building is flanked by two single-story wings and topped with dark sheet metal roofing.
Vilhelm Hising started the stone main building in 1775, and the two single-storey wings followed in 1776. The rococo main building was only finished in the early 1790s; its great hall was fitted out after drawings by Erik Palmstedt. The manor belonged to the Skinnskatteberg ironworks, whose smithy foundations and ruins remain nearby.
The great hall was fitted out following drawings by Erik Palmstedt, and the manor retains several well-preserved 18th-century interiors. The estate is part of Ekomuseum Bergslagen, a network that presents the iron-making landscape of Bergslagen. The manor now houses Skogsmästarskolan, the School of Forest Management of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
The manor now houses the School of Forest Management of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and is accessible by public transport. The surrounding grounds offer pathways to explore preserved worker buildings and remnants of the former ironworks.
The property preserves worker residences with red wooden walls from 1863 and the foundations of former smithies from the ironworks era. These remnants reveal the connection between the residence and industrial production that defined the site.
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