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II. THE SWEDISH PEOPLE.
of provisision-shed, stable, cow-house, and barn, generally adjoin the farm-house
itself; frequently all the buildings are grouped round an enclosed courtyard.
There is nearly always a garden, large or small.
A special group of country dwellings is constituted by the smaller Manor-houses
and parsonages, and the official residences (boställe) of civil servants and army
officers, now mostly abolished. The simplest type of these dwellings consists of
four rooms and a kitchen, on the ground floor, and two or more attics. Where
means and opportunity permit, the house is extended, either laterally or by the
addition of an upper story, or of a pediment giving space for one or more attic
rooms. The main building is usually flanked by a couple of wings of smaller
dimensions, for the servants and the service quarters.
large Manor-lioiises and Castles are to be found more or less frequently
in Central and Southern Sweden, but only rarely in the northern provinces. The
appearance of these residences varies in different parts of the country, the style
of architecture they display often depending on the dates at which they were
erected. The manor-houses in Skåne are both the oldest and the largest; many
of them were built in or about the lGth century: they resemble in style
Danish buildings of the same period. Remnants, though for the most part
fragmentary, still exist of mediæval castles (borg) not only in Skåne, but also, though
more sparsely, in other southern provinces and in Central Sweden. In these
latter parts 16th century manorial buildings also are rare, apart from the royal
castles (slott). The latter are dealt with under the section: Architecture.
The 17th century, the period of Sweden’s political greatness, was the golden
age of the Swedish manor-houses; the generals returning from the wars vied
with each other in the magnificence of the castles they erected. These castles
are most numerous and most beautiful in Södermanland and other provinces
Phot. O. Sundberg,
Hedemora.
Winter Landscape in Dalarne.
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