Medieval Lund was a city of churches and the needs of the cathedral led to Lund becoming the foremost centre of education within the Nordic region. As early as 1438, the Franciscan order had already established a centre for general studies. Located in the current Klostergatan, it provided a university level of education.Much of the […]
Lund Cathedral is the largest and most beautiful example of Romanesque style architecture in Scandinavia. It has been awarded three stars by the Michelin Guide and nominated as one of the seven wonders of Sweden by the national radio. Each year, the cathedral, which is open daily, is visited by over half a million people. […]
On 27 and 28 January 2017, the Museum of Sketches for Public Art was reopened on Finngatan 2. A new entrance, a museum shop and not least a restaurant have been added. The extension, designed by the architect duo Elding Oscarsson, is made of concrete and rust red Corten steel. Two anonymous donors account for […]
Driven by an endless desire to paint and draw, 24-year-old Carl Fredrik Hill moved to Paris where he pursued a productive artistic life. However, he did so with a strong, guilt-ridden father complex and sadness due to not having the time to demonstrate to his father what he was capable of. Suffering from chronic schizophrenia […]
C. H. Hertz’s father Gustav – Nobel laureate in physics in 1925. Gustav’s uncle Heinrich Hertz (1857-94) researched electromagnetism and gave the name to the frequency measurement Hertz. His research became the foundation of modern radio communication. When Hellmuth was born, his father worked in Berlin. He then took a job at Philips in Eindhoven to […]
The so-called Charles XII residence was probably built between 1586 and 1589 by CorfitzViffert in the building style of that in the Netherlands. The façade is characteristic of this style. It is quite likely that parts of a medieval building are incorporated in the current building. At the end of the 16th century, it had […]
Where the current University Square broadens out was, in the late 17th century, the site of the former botanical gardens. In the mid-18th century plans were adopted by Carl Hårleman for new botanical gardens on the same site where they remained up until the 1860s. Best known was the cultivation of 50,000 mulberry trees for […]
Ruben Rausing was born in Råå and the son of master painter August Andersson. In connection with his graduation (1915) at Nicolai School in Helsingborg, then Gossläroverket “Gossis”, he adopted the name Rausing after his home parish Raus. His studies, paid for by an aunt, took him to the Stockholm School of Economics. It started […]
