The estate is situated in the parish of Ytterselö, north of Mariefred and northeast of Stallarholmen.

[1] The main buildings were built in the 1660s and 1670s by Gustaf Soop (1624-1679), after drawings by Nikodemus Tessin, d. ä.

It was sold in 1898 to engineer Åke Sjögren who began a restoration of the estate.

In 1993, the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (Vitterhetsakademien) initiated an extensive restoration.

[5] The castle appears in the 1969 film The Gladiators where it is the headquarters of a televised war game.