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Mariefred es una localidad sueca de 3813 habitantes que por motivos históricos tiene privilegio de ciudad pese a su escasa población. Forma parte del municipio de Strängnäs, en la provincia de Södermanland. Se localiza a orillas del lago Mälaren, a 65 kilómetros de Estocolmo.
Mariefred is a locality situated in Strängnäs Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 3,726 inhabitants in 2010. [1] The name is derived from that of the former Carthusian monastery here, Mariefred Charterhouse, and means "Peace of Mary" (the former name was Gripsholm). It lies roughly 50 kilometres west of Stockholm .
- 2.51 km² (0.97 sq mi)
- Södermanland County
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Early history
A fortress was built at the location in the 1370s by Bo Jonsson Grip. It was sold to Queen Margaret the I in 1404, and remained the property of the crown until it was acquired by Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent, in 1472 by an exchange of landed properties, whereby it became private, hereditary land of allodial status, to belong to the ownership of Regent Steen's own family. Steen donated the place for use as a Carthusian monastery, or charterhouse, in 1498, and the Gripsholm estate functione...
Royal residence
King Gustav had it constructed to serve as one of the main residences of the royal house. The castle was constructed between 1537 and 1545, and often served as the residence of the royal court: during the Dacke War, for example, the royal children were housed there. Between 1563 and 1567, King Eric XIV imprisoned his brother John and his consort Catherine Jagiellon in the castle. John's son Sigismund III Vasa, later the King of Poland and Sweden, was born in the castle on June 20, 1566.When E...
Museum
In 1822, the building came to host the National Portrait Gallery (Sweden), which was placed under the supervision of the Nationalmuseumin the 1860s. Between 1889 and 1894, the castle underwent a heavy and controversial restoration by the architect Fredrik Lilljekvist during which many of the 17th and 18th-century alterations were removed.The largest change was the addition of a third floor; the planned demolition of a wing did not take place. Now the castle is a museum which is open to the pu...
In the Suecia Antiqua et Hodierna, c.1700Gripsholm by C.J. Billmark, 1850The inner courtyardRussian cannons from the end of the 16th centuryEriksson, Eva Den moderna stadens födelse: svensk arkitektur 1890–1920(Ordfront, 1990)Legnér, Mattias (25 February 2013). ”Kakelugnen värmde under lilla istiden”. Svenska Dagbladet.Strömbom, Sixten Gripsholm: slottet och dess samlingar 1537–1937(Nordisk rotogravyr, Stockholm: 1937)Media related to Gripsholm Castleat Wikimedia Commons 1. Official website 2. The National Portrait Collection Archived 2013-11-14 at the Wayback Machine 59°15′22″N 17°13′09″E / 59.25611°N 17.21917°E / 59.25611; 17.21917
Mariefred es una localidad sueca de 3813 habitantes que por motivos históricos tiene privilegio de ciudad pese a su escasa población. Forma parte del municipio de Strängnäs, en la provincia de Södermanland. Se localiza a orillas del lago Mälaren, a 65 kilómetros de Estocolmo.
Mariefred. A sweet, picturesque small town with plenty of history, just over an hour by car from Stockholm, built around the majestic Gripsholm Castle. Gripsholm was a fortress in the 14th century and took its present form in the 1530s under King Gustav Vasa.
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Mariefred Charterhouse, sometimes referred to as Gripsholm Charterhouse (Swedish: Mariefreds kloster, Latin: Monasterium Pacis Mariae or Pax Mariae), was a Carthusian monastery, or charterhouse, in the present town of Mariefred in Södermanland, Sweden, to which it gave its name; before the building of the monastery the place was ...
Mariefred es una localidad sueca de 3813 habitantes que por motivos históricos tiene privilegio de ciudad pese a su escasa población. Forma parte del municipio de Strängnäs, en la provincia de Södermanland. strangnas.se. Wikipedia. Foto: Purple, Public domain. Foto: Allie Caulfield, CC BY 2.0.
