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Skokloster Castle

Skokloster Castle is a Swedish Baroque castle built between 1654 and 1676 by Carl Gustaf Wrangel, located on a peninsula of Lake between and .
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  • Type: Hamlet with 1,990 residents
  • Description: Swedish Baroque castle on a peninsula of Lake Mälaren between Stockholm and Uppsala, built in the 17th century by Carl Gustaf Wrangel
  • Also known as: “Skoklosters slott”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Upplands runinskrifter 687 and Flasta church ruins.

Runestone
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5 se.
is a runestone.

Ruins
Photo: Marcinek, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Church
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Slottsskogen and Söderskogen.

Village
is a locality situated in , , with 1,492 inhabitants in 2010.

Village
is a locality situated in , , with 378 inhabitants in 2010. is situated 3½ km southwest of Skokloster Castle.

Village
is a locality situated in , , Sweden. Since 2015, Statistics Sweden has demarcated an urban area for this settlement. is situated 5 km south of Skokloster Castle.

Skokloster Castle

Latitude
59.7038° or 59° 42′ 14″ north
Longitude
17.622° or 17° 37′ 19″ east
Population
1,990
Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)
Open location code
9FFVPJ3C+GQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5253634065
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
8133351
Wiki­data ID
Q1891413
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Skokloster Castle” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “قلعة سكوكلوستر”
  • Bashkir: “Скуклостер”
  • Cebuano: “Skokloster”
  • Chinese: “斯庫克洛斯特城堡”
  • Czech: “Skokloster”
  • Czech: “Skoklosters slott”
  • Czech: “zámek Skokloster”
  • Danish: “Skoklosters slot”
  • Dutch: “Kasteel Skokloster”
  • Dutch: “Skokloster”
  • Esperanto: “Kastelo de Skokloster”
  • Estonian: “Skokloster”
  • Estonian: “Skoklosteri loss”
  • Finnish: “Skoklosterin linna”
  • French: “château de Skokloster”
  • French: “Château de Skokloster”
  • French: “Skokloster”
  • French: “Skoklosters slott”
  • German: “Schloss Skokloster”
  • German: “Skoklosters slott”
  • Hebrew: “טירת סקולסוסטר”
  • Hungarian: “Skokloster kastély”
  • Italian: “castello di Skokloster”
  • Italian: “Castello di Skokloster”
  • Japanese: “スコークロステル城”
  • Lithuanian: “Skuklosterio pilis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Skokloster slott”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skokloster slott”
  • Persian: “قلعه اسکوکلوستر”
  • Polish: “Skokloster”
  • Polish: “Skoklosters slott”
  • Portuguese: “Castelo de Skokloster”
  • Portuguese: “Castelo Skokloster”
  • Russian: “Замок Skokloster”
  • Russian: “Замок Скоклостер”
  • Russian: “Скуклостер”
  • Slovenian: “grad Skokloster”
  • Slovenian: “Skoklosters slott”
  • Spanish: “Castillo de Skokloster”
  • Spanish: “Palacio de Skokloster”
  • Swedish: “Skokloster 2:4; f.d. Skokloster 2:1”
  • Swedish: “Skoklosters slott”
  • Ukrainian: “Скуклостер”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Skokloster Castle”. Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.