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Doc. 204.] 7
SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS IN 1733.
Stockholm in company with my friends Count Frederic Gyllen
borg,115 Baron David Stjerncrona* and his relatives, Mr. Gallus,
and several others, and we made our first halt at an inn,
called Fittia. Thence I proceeded to Linköping, accompanied
by my relatives, Lars Benzelstjernas and his wife," where we
spent Whitweek as the guests of Bishop Ericus Benzelius,
to whom also I am related. We celebrated four feast days
in this cathedral town.
May 13 to 16. As I have said, we celebrated Whitweek in
the town of Linköping. During that time we visited the field
where the battle of Stångebro was fought, in 1598, between
Sigismund, King of Poland, and Duke Charles IX, afterwards
chosen King, and where victory was declared on the side of
Charles [see Note to Document 8, Vol. I, p. 78]. This battle
ought to be commemorated by posterity, because the fate of the
religion which was to rule in Sweden, seems to have been
settled by it. If Sigismund had proved victorious, the in
habitants of this northern country would in all probability
have remained in the Roman Catholic religion. But God in
tended it to be otherwise.
May 15. We made a pleasure trip for the purpose of see
ing a castle called Sturefors, about a Swedish mile from Lin
köping, which was built by Count Piper and now belongs to
his widow. The objects most worthy of notice there are the
paintings from the hand of the late renowned Ehrenstahl.‡
There are also other ornaments of note in the interior of the
building. But the greatest charm of the castle is its situ
ation, which is most delightful, and is calculated to refresh
and recreate the mind; since it opens to the eye a long
vista of lakes, rivers, meadows, and fields, terminating in
a forest.
Baron David Stjerncrona was born in 1715, and after having studied
at Upsal became Royal Chamberlain, and died in 1784. He was brother
of Elizabeth Stjerncrona, wife of Count Frederic Gyllenborg, concerning
whom see Note 115, Volume I.
+ Compare Document 118.
David Klöker von Ehrenstahl, born in Hamburg in 1629, was one of
the most celebrated Swedish painters of the seventeenth century. He died
in 1698.
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