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Nyköping is one of Sweden’s oldest cities, situated a little over an hour’s drive south of Stockholm. In the Middle Ages, kings Birger Jarl and Magnus Ladulås built a castle that became the foundation of “Nyköpingshus” – the destination of this walk.
A famous event of the Middle Ages in Nyköping was the banquet held here in 1317, when King Birger had his brothers Erik and Valdemar imprisoned after a power struggle that had lasted for years. Tradition has it that the king threw the key to the dungeon into the river, where a boy fished it out by chance in the late 19 th century – that is, if it is the same key.
In the 16th Century, when Karl IX was king he thought that the castle was outdated and renovated it to one of the most luxurious castles that could be imagined at that time. The renaissance castle, which was the pride of the city, was burned down in a city fire in 1665. It was later burned down again on 25 July 1719. Some of the bricks where used to build Stockholm Castle, and the Nyköping castle, where births and deaths of kings has taken place was only partly restored in the 20th century. But the journey is the destination! This walk takes you along charming buildings and nature before passing through parts of the ruin.
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