Page 9 - Naked Foodies - July 2021

In 1789, Värnanäs was bought by an officer named Carl Råberg, later knighted Mannerskantz. His descendants owned Värnanäs for almost 200 years, until 1983.
Råberg was a fortification officer and a skilled architect. He pretty much rebuilt all of the farm during 15 years, all according to his own drawings, and his work still largely exists.
At Stufvenäs he erected the main building in 1798 as a guest house for his sister and her family when they came to visit. After a year or so, Stufvenäs became the home of his niece Beata Beckstadius and her husband, the cavalry captain and major of the Royal army of Sweden, Claes Eric Silfversparre. The couple settled down in Stufvenäs and had three sons and four daughters. The youngest daughter Miss Charlotte, who became the last of the Silversparre family to live here, died in 1902.
In 1884, Stufvenäs was leased by Carl Hemmingsson for 30 years and after that his son Axel took over the farm. During this time, Stufvenäs had 43 hectares of land and 38 hectares of pasture and the farm had 5 workhorses and 20 cows.
In 1939, Stufvenäs was leased by Ture Johansson. In 1948, the lease was terminated and Stufvenäs was to become included in Wärnanäs Estate.
On the 24th July 1953 the cowshed, the barn and pigsty burnt to the ground after a lightning strike during a heavy thunderstorm. The main building, the brewery and the grand piano remain intact.
During the 17th century, a shipyard was built at Värnanäs as well, which had its peak time in the middle of the 19th century. Among the shipyard's more famous builds was the fast- sailing full-rigged vessel Octavia, built by Carl August Hahn. It is not entirely impossible that these beautiful and stately oaks were planted and the logs used for shipbuilding at the shipyard.
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