Teleborgs Castle (Sweden)

The name comes from the one of the larger villages south of Växjö called Telestad. Its farms were laid in the 1840s under the large farm Tuvan by the landowner J. Aspelin.

Tuvan had been built in 1819 by a tanner Björklund in Växjö. Esaias Tegnér lived in the then main building in the years 1825–1827, before he moved into Växjö bishop's manor. After the farm changed owners several times, it was bought by Count Gustav Fredrik Bonde af Björnö (1842–1909), who through the architectural firm Lindvall & Boklund [2] had the castle built, inspired by the Rhineland's knights' castles, as a somewhat delayed wedding gift to his second wife Anna Koskull ( 1868–1917), for which he had been the guardian. The castle was completed in 1900, and was then part of a two-tier fideicommission

Fredrik Bonde died as early as 1909 and his wife eight years later. Teleborg then went to the count's nephew, the chamberlain, Count Christer Bonde af Björnö (1869–1956), born on Trolleholm, who ran the castle as a girls' pension and boarding house for a few years. In 1931, Christer Bonde moved in himself and at the same time built a castle park. His son, the embassy councilor in Rome, Count Fredrik Bonde (1902–1981) inherited the castle in 1956, but sold it in 1964 to the city of Växjö for a sum of SEK 3.7 million. This also disbanded the fideicommission. Today the castle is owned by Videum AB and leased by Runosson & Co.