Bergkvara Castle

Bergkvara Castle is a citadel in Sweden. Described within the Nordisk familjebok as "certainly one of Sweden's oldest mansions, placed at a lake of the identical name, in Värend, Bergunda and Ojaby parishes, Kinnevalds district and Kronoberg County, 6 km. West of Vaxjo". Bergkvara was an "ornamental landscape" whose house turned into rebuilt as a tower residence within the 1470s. The tower residence become at the beginning surrounded by moats, serving as a device of defense. In the late 17th Century, the internal moat were in part stuffed and served as a millpond even as the outer moat served more as a ditch marking the restrict of the castle bailey.

By this time the house had moved to the outer moat, as the tower residence had lost its original feature. The moats are thought to be medieval, even as the reconstructed house dates from at the least the sixteenth Century. In general, "Bergkvara became a residence for noblemen from the 15th century until the 1580s. Thereafter it functioned as a manor for absent noblemen who never resided here and appear to have visited Bergkvara very seldom."