[1][2] A fortified castle was already present on the site in the late 13th century, and the estate has belonged to some of the most influential noble families in Sweden, including Oxenstierna, Bielke and Brahe.

The present palace was erected in the French Baroque style in the 1670s for Nils Bielke the Younger, 1st Count Bielke af Åkerö and Imperial Count of Torgelow, incorporating elements from an earlier Renaissance castle, and designed and constructed by Mathias Spieler after an earlier design by Nicodemus Tessin the Elder.

The building has a lower ground floor with two projecting corner pavilions and two independent wings facing the garden side .

The high plinth contains beautifully arched rooms for the kitchen and other economy spaces .

There is a series of fabric-stretched ceilings with paintings in shades of gray, imitating stucco .