Händö Farm – a historic manor setting with a lakeside location

Other Buildings

Side Wing - 4 rooms, one shower room with a toilet. One room is winterized and heated; the wing houses the geothermal heat pump
Guest house – 3 rooms and a kitchen, one shower room, winterized and heated by the main house’s geothermal heat pump
Kolarens cottage – A house by the water, uninhabited but with two furnished rooms and an additional room used for storage.
Chicken coop (not in use)
Storage building—alargestorage building divided into two apartments wooden floors, as well as covered outdoor areas with dirt floors. Includes a lockable garage with a concrete floor
Barn—a large barn with various spaces, dirt floors.
Woodworking shed

The surroundings

Lake Händösjön, with Händö Farm situated on a hill that forms a headland where the lake narrows. The land around Lake Händösjön is divided into small plots, open, and varied, with fields and pastures. The area offers many spots with beautiful views of the lake. On the eastern shore of Lake Händösjön lies the railway town of Dunker.

Nearby Dunker is a Sörmland church village in the municipality of Flens, where lakes, forest edges, and open fields set the tone. Around Skundern and Dunkern, a tranquil cultural landscape unfolds, featuring farmsteads and expansive views. Lake Skundern lies northwest of Malmköping and is surrounded by small villages and larger farms with fields, pastures, and forests. The church village is home to Dunker Church, likely built in the latter part of the 13th century. For families with children, the Dunkers Foundation operates a preschool and school in Dunker. Community life revolves around organizations such as Dunkers IF and its home stadium, Dalvallen.

Driving distances:
Stockholm 1.5 hours
Flen 21 minutes. (Train to Stockholm Central Station approximately 55 minutes.)
Malmköping 10 minutes

History

HÄNDÖ FARM BUILDINGS

Historians believe that Händö was established as a farm in the early 1500s. Of the buildings that remain today at Händö, the main building can likely be dated to the early 1700s. It is known that the house underwent a major renovation around 1890. Further renovation and modernization were carried out in the late 1970s.
The farmstead consists of red-painted houses, including a main building (rebuilt in the late 19th century) and an old-fashioned corner cottage, a well-preserved single-room cottage, a 19th-century workers’ dwelling for two families, and farm buildings from the 1870s and 1880s.

HISTORY AND OWNERSHIP RECORD

In 1562, the farmstead of Händö, which was classified as a “mantal frälse,” was owned—along with the freehold farmstead of Röhl in Dunkers Parish—by Måns Persson Lilliehöök, who managed the farms under Lagmansö in Oppunda Parish.

Ten years later, however, both homesteads were located in Rossvik in the parish of Rekarne. In the decades that followed, the annual tax rolls listed—without specifying the owners’ names—two freehold homesteads in the village of Hende, which in the early 17th century were assessed at ¼ mantal each and were called Hendetorp. According to a court certificate dated 1616, one of these was Bengt Stigsson’s manor farm; in addition to this, he also cultivated a farmstead in the parish village of Dunkers, a fjärdingsväg’s distance away, from which he had moved to the aforementioned farm, later known as Sundstorp. The estate appears to have been limited to these two farmsteads for a couple of decades during that same period.

The widow of Carl Bengtsson (Ulffana), Ursula Örnflycht, and their children lived on Händö. Among them was a daughter, Magdalena, who was married to Olof Jöransson Hökeflycht (d. 1665), who eventually came to own Händö-Sundstorp, while another daughter was married to Erik Silfverbrand (d. before 1658). The son of the latter couple, Zakarias Silfverbrand (d. 1709), inherited Dunker, but also acquired the other quarter-farm, Sunds-Händö, through an exchange in 1651 with Görvel Posse. He managed both Sundstorp and Dunker under Boxtorp but sold them in the 1680s, whereupon Sunds-Händö came to belong to the same owner as its sister farm, Sundstorp. This had been mortgaged much earlier (1657) and was finally sold in 1662 to Johannes Matthiae (d. 1670); it was owned by his children for a few years before being acquired by Peter Franc (d. 1714) prior to 1683. At the same time, Franc became the owner of the Silfverbrand farmstead, for which he secured barn privileges. At that time, the manor was built “with preserved wooden houses in keeping with the farm’s modest size.” There could be no question of any raw or reed homesteads, for “both the manor house and the barns were established homes on reed lands,” according to the investigation commission’s minutes from 1685.

Other subordinate estates were likewise missing. The owner of the manor after Franc was Nils Schönberg (d. 1728), who, through his earlier acquisition of Dunker, reunited the Ulffana family’s two manors and incorporated the entire revived complex into a larger entity that, within the home parish, grew up around the Holmen (Ekensholm) manor and the Stålboga ironworks.

Notable among the later owners following Nils Schönberg were Johan Stjernanckar, Johanna Catarina Stjernanckar (d. 1773), Gustaf Silfverbrand (d. 1811), Alexander Vilhelm Silfverbrand (d. 1841), P.J. Widell from 1835 to 1839, Martin von Wahrendorff (d. 1861), Axel Salomon von Stockenström (d. 1849), Henrik Albrekt von Stockenström (d. 1914), and Colonel Eva von Stockenström.

The owner (1947) is Baroness Christina Lagerfeldt of Linköping.
At that time, the estate was managed jointly with Ekensholm and Röhl.

The current owner family has owned the estate since 1995.

Source: Transcript of *History of Sweden’s Cities, Towns, and Rural Areas*, 1947, Part II