Teleborg Castle

Fredrik Bonde built Teleborg between 1898 and 1900 for his wife Anna Koskull, who had inherited the estate, and gave it to her as a wedding gift - the story is the reason most people know the building. The architect Ferdinand Boberg worked in a National Romantic idiom with towers, a stepped gable and heavy stone at the base, which reads as medieval at a distance and is nothing of the kind close up. It later belonged to the town and now runs as a hotel and conference house, with the ground floor rooms accessible when nothing is booked in them. The grounds run down to Lake Trummen and connect to the paths around the university.

What you actually see

• A National Romantic castle of 1900 - by Ferdinand Boberg.
• Towers and a stepped gable - medieval-looking, entirely modern.
• A wedding-gift story - Bonde to Koskull, the reason it exists.
• Grounds down to Lake Trummen - joined to the town paths.

When to go

Year round. An hour.

Honest expectations

It is a working hotel, so interiors are often closed to visitors. There is no museum. The building is much smaller than photographs suggest. Grounds are modest.

Nearby

Vaxjo and the glass museum are north; the Kingdom of Crystal is east.