Carlsten's powerful walls ring their safe arms around the Donjonen and the Commandant's House. In these 18th-century buildings you spend the night in our charming rooms overlooking Marstrand and the sea, just as thousands of soldiers have done over the years.
Commandant's House
Built in 1775. Used for officers and special prisoners, including political prisoners. Prisoners who were not in the current government were usually deployed so as not to be able to influence the current government. One such prisoner had two rooms, unlike the other prisoners who sat as many as 30 men in each cell. Even the death row where the prisoners sat the last night before execution is in this house.
Metta-Charlotta was the only female prisoner at Carlsten, she was placed there on charges of murdering a child and a man. She was confessed in 1806 and 1809, confessed to the murders and sentenced to death there and executed in 1810. Author Ann Rosman has written a book about Metta's life (Mercurium).
In the house also the Commandant lived on Carlsten. The first commandant was Johan Wänschöld and the last is Eiwe Swanberg, who is still a permanent resident of Kommendantshuset. In 2013, the ground floor of the Commandant's House renovated seven new hotel rooms.
Donjon
The donjon was used as accommodation for soldiers, where at most 600 men lived in hanging huts on the ceiling. There were also cannons there aimed at the south. Today there are 15 rooms, hotel rooms, conference rooms, kitchen and living room. Carlsten had his own garrison from 1658 to 1882. But be military with radar station in the main tower. until 1993 when the National Property Board took over the management of Carlsten.
Carlsten today has a large restaurant, conference, guided tours and events. The business is open all year round.
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