Österviks kapell
1869
Gothic Revival
chapel
A church room, a sacristy, schoolrooms, dwellings for priest and teacher and a school kitchen in the basement were fitted under one roof when Österviks kapell was completed in 1872. Count Rudolf Adlersparre and his wife Ida of the…
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- 1869
Julius Frosell
- 1892
A manor dairy was built about fifty metres northwest of the chapel and given the same neo-Gothic treatment. Butter and cheese were produced in it until 1909, so for its first seventeen years the site combined a place of worship with a…
- 1939
The dairy building burned. It was rebuilt afterwards rather than cleared away, so the structure standing northwest of the chapel is a rebuild and not the dairy as it was first completed in the 1890s. The fire came thirty years after…
- 1963-1969
The buildings had fallen into disrepair. Österviks kapellstiftelse, a foundation formed for the chapel, took them over and had them restored over several years, and the chapel was brought back into use when the work finished in 1969.
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