Tegnérlunden, Stockholm

Tegnerlunden is a park on the border between the districts and Norrmalm Vasastaden in central Stockholm, situated between Queen Street and Upland Way.

The park is crossed by Tegnergatan. This street forms the border between Norrmalm and Vasastaden.

At Tegnerlunden are including Individual School at Tegnerlunden 5 and Swedenborg Memory Church at Tegnerlunden 7.

Tegnerlunden was until the end of the 19th century one of Stockholm's numerous kvarnberg. Here were two windmills, a built in 1693 which malde grain, the second was a hampkvarn built in 1724. Formerly called the street which leads past Tegnerlunden Trebackarlanggatan. The park was given its current name in 1885 year name audit(together with the Tegnergatan). When was the name Tegnerslunden(with "s") after the poet and the Bishop Esaias Tegner(1782-1846), which however did not have any connection to the site. The Commission's proposal was amended on name in 1932 and finally to Tegnerlunden.

The park was originally created in the 1890s, when the windmills had been demolished. When was the least of all Stockholm parks. There were flower discounts and lawns were not accessible. In the early 1940s omdanades Tegnerlunden sweeping through Stadstradgardsmastaren Holger Bloms proposal together with Erik Glemme. An artificial Brook flow performs pastures, stop at the small water mirrors and a small stone bridge and finally emerge valvs in and irregularly shaped padding dust.

In the eastern part is Carl Tegnerlundens Eldhs large statue of August Strindberg finalised to Strindberg's last birthday in 1912. In 1916 it was full scale model ready and in 1942 was aspired to this bronze sculpture in the park.

In the park's north-east corner, a small bronze sculpture of Majalisa Alexanderson of Astrid Lindgren since 1996, which embraces a child. The sculpture is the people and quotatins from her books. And several of Astrid Lindgren's books are related to Tegnerlunden. Children's book Mio min Mio takes its begining in Tegnerlunden. It is there that the boy Bo Vilhelm Olsson meets the genie that takes him to the Land of Faraway.

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Author: HUANG JING