History

Sunnerå Herrgård is situated about 8 minutes car drive from Ljungby in Småland. Here you will find the manor itself, an even older side building (the former main building), as well as a few other smaller houses.

The village of Sunnerå has already been mentioned in old documents from the Middle Ages, and the manor itself was mentioned the first time in a history book from 1445. According to this book, the knight Knut Grundis gave Sunnerå as a present to his wife Birgitta Haraldsdotter.

Sunnerå was at former times a very strategic point and our current side building (from the early 17 th century) was right next to one of the main roads, which connected the capital Stockholm and Denmark. According to sayings, Queen Kristina from Sweden (daughter to Gustav Adolf II) stayed a few nights in this building on her trip to Rome.

Today there are hardly any remains from this once so important road. Where the road once ran there are now meadows, gardens and trees.

In the 19 th century Sunnerå Herrgård had its own snaps-distillery. Up to 300 cans of snaps were produced daily and sold directly from here. As you can imagine this was very lucrative.

But not all stories are nice…

On a cold morning in early spring 1860 the young mail-coachman Frans Karlsson was robbed and brutally murdered, when he was on his way to deliver the alcohol tax money. But already the next day the assassinator could be convicted of that crime.

From 1850 until the beginning of World War I, Sunnerå was owned by Major Bergh and his descendants. Because of him we have named one of our rooms as “Major Bergh´s rum”.

In the 1920´s Baron Jakob von Salza moved to Sunnerå Manor. From his time we know many stories, due to our recently deceased 100 year old neighbour Elin Johansson, who worked here as a maid. In his remembrance we named one of our rooms “Baronen´s rum”.

In the 1950´s Sunnerå Manor was bought the Captain and Consul Stig Wagenius and his wife Ingeborg. The house is still in their children´s ownership and run by Ewa Wagenius-Brune.

As an honour to the Captain/Consul we named one of the rooms “Kaptenen´s rum”.

At former times huge properties belonged to the manor, which were sold off during the centuries. Nowadays it consists of a big garden (4 ha), a small beach, a little brook and a small boat house.