Ulriksdal Palace
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Ulriksdal Palace | |
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Ulriksdals slott | |
Solna | |
Country | Sweden |
Coordinates | 59°23′25″N 18°01′01″E / 59.39028°N 18.01694°E |
Construction started | 1638 |
Completed | 1645 |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Hans Jacob Kristler , Nicodemus Tessin, Carl Hårleman |
Website | |
RoyalCourt.se |
Ulriksdal Palace (
History
Hedvig Eleonora had grand plans for the palace and renamed it in 1684 Ulriksdal in honor of its intended future owner, her grandson Prince Ulric. The prince, however, died at the age of one and Hedvig Eleonora kept the palace until her death in 1715 when the property was transferred to the crown for King Frederick I's disposal.
Several drawings by Nicodemus Tessin the Elder show a stately palace, three storeys high, with a lantern roof, furnished attic, and side wings extending the lakeside façade. Implementation of Tessin's designs began under Hedvig Eleonora in the 1670s, but was halted around 1690 due to financial problems.
When building work eventually resumed by King Frederick I in the 1720s, the palace architect
Relatively little survives of the 18th century interiors, since Ulriksdal served as a veterans' hospital from 1822 to 1849. The hospital was established by King
In 1923, Prince Gustav Adolf, the future King
The palace has been open to the public since 1986. The original furnishings have been relocated to the preserved rooms and parts of the former living quarters are used to exhibit items from Gustaf VI Adolf's art and crafts collection as well as
Outbuildings
The Palace Theatre, Confidencen, is situated in a building from the 1670s which was originally used as a horse riding house and later a guesthouse. In 1753, Queen Louisa Ulrika commissioned architect Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz to convert the building into a theatre. It was built in Rococo style, seats 200 spectators and has a table à confidence, a table which can be lowered through the floor to the basement to be set. Today Confidencen is the oldest Rococo theatre in Sweden, reopened in 1981 and run since then by Kjerstin Dellert.
Ulriksdal Palace had in the palace's northern wing originally a chapel, built in 1662 by architect
Next to the palace is the greenhouse, today the Orangery Museum. The Orangery was built at the end of the 17th century by architect
See also
References
- ^ Gerd Ribbing (1959). Ensam drottning. Sofia Magdalena 1783–1813. [Lonely Queen. Sophia Magdalena 1782–1813] Stockholm: Alb. Bonniers Boktryckeri. ISBN (Swedish)
- ^ "Stålboga, Flen, Fest- och musikpaviljong" (in Swedish). Peter von Knorring arkitektkontor. Retrieved 2014-09-07.
- (in Swedish) Nordisk familjebok (Nordic familybook), Stockholm : Gernandts boktryckeri-aktiebolag, Vol. No. 16, 1869.
- Bedoire, Fredric (2006). Svenska slott och herrgårdar (Swedish Palaces and Manors) (in Swedish). Stockholm: Bonnier. ISBN 91-0-010577-5.
External links
- Media related to Ulriksdals slott at Wikimedia Commons
- Official Royal Palaces website