• The Hunting Room

    The Hunting Room

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    The historian

    recounts

    This vestibule was formerly known as the Tile Room or the Tile Hall and served as the reception room for the nobility. The names originate from the fine Öland tile floor. In the second half of the 19th century, the room was divided; the area in front of the entrance by the staircase was, as it is now, the reception room with a letterbox and telegraph for the servants. The section towards the Yellow Room, in its northeastern corner, was furnished with a spiral staircase that connected the kitchen in the basement with the salon's and living rooms. This part of the room was therefore, for a period, used as a serving room. The spiral staircase was built by Baron Frederik Siegfred Bille-Brahe in the 1860's, dismantled in the 20th century, and is now located in the gate wing. During this period, a small chamber was also arranged near the window with a bed for the third servant – last used by old Peter, who had been at the castle for more than 18 years.