House of Nobility

The House of Nobility in , , is a corporation and a building that maintains records and acts as an interest group on behalf of the Swedish nobility.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: palace built in 1641–1674, which is owned and managed by Sweden’s knights and nobility.
  • Also known as: “House of Nobility (Sweden)”, “Riddarhus Palace”, “Swedish House of Knights”, “Swedish House of Nobility”, and “Swedish Riddarhuset”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Stockholm Central Station and Bonde Palace.

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, Stockholms centralstation, is 's busiest rail station, in the Norrmalm district of . It is directly connected to the Cityterminalen bus station, the Stockholm City commuter train station and the T-Centralen metro station, with a tram stop.

Castle
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The is a palace in Gamla stan, the old town in central , . Located between the House of Knights and the Chancellery House, it is, arguably, the most prominent monument of the era of the Swedish Empire, originally designed…

Church
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Riddarholmen Church is the church of the former medieval Greyfriars Monastery in Stockholm, Sweden. The church serves as the final resting place of most Swedish monarchs. is situated 150 metres southwest of House of Nobility.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gamla stan and Stockholm.

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pronounced gamlaˈstɑːn, the Old Town, also known as Staden mellan broarna is the Old Town in , containing genuine cultural heritage, as well as tourist traps.

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is 's capital and largest city, with nearly a million inhabitants in the city, and 2.4 million within . The inner city is made up of 14 islands across Lake Mälaren and three streams into the brackish Baltic Sea, with the with some 24,000 islands, islets and skerries.

Neighborhood
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is a part of lower in the central part of . It has its name from . Today the name, though not often used in daily speech, has become synonymous with the old city that once occupied lower Norrmalm.

House of Nobility

Latitude
59.32593° or 59° 19′ 33″ north
Longitude
18.06572° or 18° 3′ 57″ east
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
Inception
1674
Levels
2
Open location code
9FFW83G8+97
Open­Street­Map ID
way 8049544
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­public
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
6944473
Wiki­data ID
Q1547268
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Thai—“House of Nobility” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Ազնվականների տուն”
  • Basque: “Nobleziaren etxea”
  • Belarusian: “Дваранскі сход”
  • Chinese: “貴族之家”
  • Danish: “Riddarhuset”
  • Dutch: “Riddarhuset”
  • Esperanto: “Stokholma Nobeldomo”
  • Finnish: “Riddarhuset”
  • Finnish: “Ritarihuone”
  • Finnish: “Ruotsin ritarihuone”
  • French: “Maison de la noblesse”
  • French: “Palais de la Noblesse”
  • French: “Riddarhuset”
  • French: “Riddarhuspalatset”
  • German: “Riddarhuset”
  • German: “Ritterhaus”
  • Japanese: “スウェーデンの貴族館”
  • Japanese: “貴族院 (スウェーデン)”
  • Korean: “스웨덴 기사원”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Riddarhuset”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ridderhuset”
  • Norwegian: “Riddarhuset”
  • Polish: “Dom Rycerstwa i Szlachty w Sztokholmie”
  • Polish: “Dom Rycerstwa w Sztokholmie”
  • Polish: “Riddarhuset”
  • Portuguese: “Riddarhuset”
  • Russian: “Riddarhuset”
  • Russian: “Дворянское собрание”
  • Slovenian: “Riddarhuset”
  • Spanish: “Palacio de la Nobleza”
  • Spanish: “Riddarhuspalatset”
  • Swedish: “Riddarhuset”
  • Swedish: “Riddarhuspalatset”
  • Swedish: “Sveriges riddarhus”
  • Thai: “ราชวงศ์สวีเดนแห่งขุนนาง”

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