Norrköping jungfrustift

It functioned as a stift or Protestant convent for unmarried female nobles from 1783 to 1796, situated in the city of Norrköping.

In 1783, riksråd Carl Fredrik Scheffer decided to meet the complaints about the fact that the foundation Vadstena adliga jungfrustift, despite repeated attempts, had never managed to form any actual establishment of a Protestant convent, as had originally been the purpose.

That year, he bought a house in the city in Norrköping and donated it to the Vadstena adliga jungfrustift committee, who decided to open a local branch of the convent there.

The Norrköping jungfrustift consisted of an abbess (though referred to as prioress) and six unmarried noblewomen with the title stiftsjungfru or stiftsfröken.

The abbesses were the noble widows Sofia Emerentia Gyllenborg (from 1783 to 1783) and Hedvig Christina Creutz (from 1783 to 1796).