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The Town Hall in Vadstena is the oldest preserved. Tower portion of the building dates from the 1490th Rådsturätten disappeared Vadstena 1948. Then held Motala district court thing once a year in Ting Hall, This is to the tradition of things would continue in the building, and the oldest in function preserved courtroom in Sweden.
1552 married Gustav Vasa, 56, for the third time with the only 16 year old Catherine Stenbock. The ceremony took place at Vadstena Church. Gustav Vasa had previously confiscated all the silver and other valuables from the church during the Reformation. It must have been a fairly bare church for the ceremony.
One of the big rooms in the castle has long been called the wedding feast room. Unfortunately the room was not completed at the time of the wedding, so it must have happened in any other part of the castle.
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Vadstena abbey church, built for the monastery in Vadstena, Brigettine Order, inaugurated in 1430.
The church is built according to St. Bridget's intentions.
Now used as a parish church.
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Vadstena Castle is a castle complex that was originally built as a defense of Gustav Vasa in the 1500s .
Gustav Vasa's two sons Magnus and Johan Reformed fortress into a palace . Magnus older brother John planned the castle's third floor , with national labs and the castle church and the whole construction was completed during the first half of the 1600s.
After the royals left the castle in the early 1700s came the castle halls to be used among other things as damask weaving and liquor stores. 1899 moved the country archive into the castle's eastern half . The idea was to build a new regional archives in Linköping, but time passes . Nothing happens and the country archive space becomes too small and poor as more and more archival material delivered into .
In 1997 began a major project to rebuild levees and restore the two square towers in the courtyard south corner , work entailed one of the biggest changes in a Swedish monuments during the 1900s . Everything to country store would get working premises. Premises and Bailey is now used for exhibitions, concerts and more . During the summer months, the Vadstena Academy part of the castle's halls for its opera performances and for the training of future opera actors .
Tokfursten, one of Vadstena Academy's greatest successes at the Vadstena Castle. Tokfursten based on Elgard Jonsson's memoirs about his experiences as a young inmate at Säters mental hospital for schizophrenia.
The memoirs turned into a stage play by Henning Mankell and an opera by Carl Unander-Scharin and Nils Spangenberg.
In this opera, you feel transported to Vadstena, the city has the tradition of mental health since the 1700s. Medical City was Vadstena already during the 1500s.
Diggiloo concert at Vadstena Castle courtyard
New Vadstena abbey, guesthouse and abbey church
Vadstena Abbey was a monastery that was planned and designed by St Bridget and inaugurated in 1384. It was a double monastery, which included both nuns and monks in the same orden, the brigittine orden. It played an important role during the Middle Ages, when it was the mother monastery of other monasteries of the same orden in several countries in Europe. Vadstena Abbey was also the center of cultural life in Sweden for almost 150 years, but the light disappeared in the darkness after the Reformation.
Vadstena Abbey was closed in 1595 , but in 1935 returned Brigittinenuns to Vadstena and started a guest house. A monastery, St. Bridget's Convent Pax Mariae, was re-established in Vadstena in 1968. A new abbey church was built in the 1970s , now also used as a parish church for the Catholics in Vadstena and vicinity. The new abbey is located just south of the medieval monastery. It was in 1988 recognized by the Pope in Rome as an independent priory , which now has its own abedissa , and thus can work relatively independently in observance of the orden rules.
A statue of St Bridget with her daughter Catherine in guesthouse garden