Hammarskogs herrgård is the historic heart of a former Uppland estate and the visitor centre of Hammarskog Nature Reserve, about 15 kilometres south-west of Uppsala. Its 1655 sandstone portal survived a later fire and rebuilding; today the manor connects local farm history with woodland, wetlands and public nature learning.
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The sandstone portal is dated 1655 and bears the initials and coats of arms of Knut Göransson Posse and his wife Ingeborg.
Uppsala Municipality’s heritage survey records fifteen families living on the estate in 1916; Uppsala city acquired Hammarskog in 1963.
The manor grounds are designated as the visitor centre of Hammarskog Nature Reserve, whose landscape includes wetlands, oak groves, meadows and agricultural land.
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At Hammarskogs herrgård, a carved sandstone doorway carries the initials of Knut Göransson Posse and his wife Ingeborg, with the year 1655 between them. It is a surviving fragment of an older, grander house: a reminder that this quiet manor by Dalbyviken once stood at the centre of a large working estate. The site is in Dalby parish, within Uppsala Municipality, roughly fifteen kilometres south-west of Uppsala city.
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