Sperlingsholm, Manor estate in Halmstad Municipality, Sweden.
Sperlingsholm is a manor estate in Halmstad Municipality, in the Swedish county of Halland. The property includes a main house with the formal features of traditional Swedish manor architecture, set within open parkland grounds.
The estate was called Klackerup until 1648, when Baron Caspar Otto Sperling, Halland's first Swedish governor, bought it and gave it his name. He built a timber main building with a moat in the early 1650s; the surviving 'Gammelgård' stands on metre-thick cellar walls. The present main house was erected in 1812 for Henning Gustav Wrangel after drawings by Gustaf af Sillén.
The name Sperlingsholm dates from 1648, when Caspar Otto Sperling, Halland's first Swedish governor, bought Klackerup and gave the estate his family name. The Kuylenstierna family, owners since 1866, still lives here. Carl Sebastian and Greta Kuylenstierna had Sperlingsholm Church built in 1907; it opened on Christmas Eve 1909 and was given to Övraby parish in 1970.
The estate sits in a rural area of Halmstad Municipality and is most easily reached by car via the regional roads. As it is a private property, it is worth checking in advance which areas, if any, are open to visitors.
The older main building, called "Gammelgård", survives from the 1650s: a heavy timber house of one and a half storeys over a stone cellar whose walls are a metre thick and roofed with cross and barrel vaults. Caspar Otto Sperling had it built with outbuildings inside a moat.
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