Trolleberg, Manor house in Staffanstorp Municipality, Sweden.
Trolleberg is a two-storey stone manor house built in the mid-18th century to designs by Carl Hårleman. Its wide, symmetrical facade has a slightly projecting central section topped by a triangular pediment, evenly spaced white-framed windows, a narrow balcony with a dark metal railing on the upper floor, and a steep red-tiled roof with tall chimneys and small dormer openings. It stands in a park.
Originally called Värpinge, the estate was given to Lund Cathedral chapter in 1331. After the Reformation it passed to the Danish crown and was pledged in 1572 to Görvel Fadersdotter, widow of Lave Brahe, who donated it to Christian IV in 1601. Later owners included bishop Peder Winstrup and his son-in-law Casper von Böhnen, whose widow sold it to Fredrik Trolle; he built the present main building in the mid-18th century to designs by Carl Hårleman and made it an entailed estate under the name Trolleberg.
The name Trolleberg comes from Fredrik Trolle, the lieutenant colonel who built the present main building and made the estate a fideicommissum under that name. His son-in-law Fredrik Georg Wachtmeister took the name Trolle-Wachtmeister, as the entail required, and the family held the estate for generations. Knut Wachtmeister, a descendant of the first fideicommissary, owned it until his death in 2017.
Trollebergs säteri lies in Flackarps socken, Staffanstorp Municipality, east of Lund in Skåne. The corps-de-logi is a private residence, so visits are limited to the park and the view of the facade from the grounds; the building itself is not open to the public.
The name Trolleberg comes from Fredrik Trolle, the lieutenant colonel who built the present main building and made the estate a fideicommissum under that name. His son-in-law Fredrik Georg Wachtmeister took the name Trolle-Wachtmeister, and the family held the estate until 1830, when Hans Gabriel Trolle-Wachtmeister moved the entail to Trolle-Ljungby.
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