Discovering Swedish castle - Torup - Svedala Skåne


Torup is one of Skåne's best preserved castles from the 1500's. 
  
The castle is built in the middle of a lake on a base of heavy oak logs. High foundation walls of granite formed the basement floor and above the three floors and towers are made of brick. 
Alongside the walkway around the castle there are specimens of five centuries' worth of landscape gardens.
  

And Bokskogen, the recreation area is 365 hectares beech forest with jogging tracks, footpaths and bridleways. Friluftsgården with its shower, sauna, gym and café is housed in an 18th century warehouse. 


Bokskogen became a popular visitor attraction early in the 1800s. When the railway line between Malmö and Genarp was opened in 1894, visitors came in a steady stream and a side track was built to Torup. The railway was eventually abandoned and the old railway line was turned into a bicycle trail.


The more recent history of the castle is connected with Henriette Cederström - A girl from the city that become a woman in the countryside.

Henriette Cederström (1859-1941) grew up in Helsingborg and in 1884 married the Gustav (Gösta) Coyet agronomist on Torups Castle. Gustav Coyet died 1924th and Henriette inherited the castle and the restoration of the castle and the garden continued. Among other things, she created a new library of a former trolley barn in the courtyard.

Henriette made Torup a meeting place for many people in science, art and culture. She bought books in many areas and had a clear own literary talent. Henrietta was a board member of the Society of Sciences in Lund, a forum for contemporary humanistic research founded in 1920. 

There are not many women in the Scanian estates who were guests at a Studentafton in Lund, but it was our Henriette in 1923.