What is Huseby?

Arriving in Huseby is like stepping back in time and entering a different world. The river is cascading between the narrow beaks of the buildings, the general store sells old-fashioned cone-shaped bags filled with sweets, the food served here is utilized from the garden and the maid sweeps the castle floors.

Here, time has stood still for some 100 years. Visitors can enter and experience the era where Joseph Stephens was patron of the ironworks, where horses worked together with the “statare” (agricultural contract-workers), and everything belonged in a world of its own. Here you can find a Castle (the old manor), historical park and garden, historical buildings and restaurant. We offer guided tours, activities, exhibitions and also for educational purposes.

We start each year with an Easter opening and celebrations, although the first of May marks as the grand opening of the year’s season. Through tradition there has always been a stallion show on the first of May, with majestic stallions trotting the alley all the way up to the Castle. During our summer season we offer lots of different entertainments, whether it being guided tours through the area, experiencing the exhibitons or enter the Castle at your own demise. Each year we end the season with the largest Christmas fair in the Nordic region. Huseby Bruk is completely transformed into a Christmas paradise, with marshals lightening up the paths and more than a hundred pine trees filled with Christmas lights.

 

Huseby Bruk is administered by Statens Fastighetsverk. The public operations are run by Huseby Bruk AB, a municipal corporation owned by the municipalities Alvesta and Växjö. The last private owner, Florence Stephens, bequeathed Huseby Bruk to the Swedish state at her death in 1979. Since 1982, Huseby is a public tourist destination, operated according to Ms Stephen’s last wishes in her will.