Lindholmen Castle

Lindholmen Castle was a historic royal fortress on Lake Börringesjön in Scania, believed to have been built in the 1310s under Eric VI Menved. The site gained particular importance when the deposed Swedish king Albert III was imprisoned here with his son from 1389 to 1395. During this period, important negotiations took place at the complex, which, with the participation of Queen Margaret I and Duke John IV of Mecklenburg, led to a peace treaty and the king's release. As the center of the Lindholm Len province, the fortress quickly lost its importance after the province was dissolved around 1540. Today the ruins lie in the municipality of Svedala, but little more than a mound remains to be seen.