BONGA
| THE BONGA CASTLE is an exciting, even
peculiar sight in the heart of the idyllic small town of Loviisa,
immediately south of the church. A couple from St. Petersburg had
it built as their home at the beginning of last century. Its original
design was made by Mr. Th. Hjelt, an architect from Helsinki. After
the Finnish civil war, the house ended up owned by the Baumgartner
family. Its Jugendstil from with its red roofed towels was modified
according to the design of architect Hilding Ekelund into a granite
castle along the lines of Italian neo-Classicism and functionalism. In 1998 the estate came into its present owners Riitta Nelimarkka and Jaakko Seeck. The worn-out patrician castle has been renovated in the course of the years, with reverence to its old style. The house has been heated ecologically with wood chips since 1998. Also the engineering of the building has been completely redone. The church-side wing of the big main building now serves as atelier and production spaces. The south-side of the building has been renovated into an art museum-gallery that is open to the public. Nearly two hundred of Nelimarkka´s works are displayed there: drawings, aquarelles, graphic art, collages, woolen and flax reliefs, textile pictures, paintings, art and poetry books, photographs and animated films. |
The Bonga gallery | The Bonga castle
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Bonga castle
Linnankuja, FIN-07900 Loviisa, Finland
