Running alongside the street Lokföraregatan (Locomotive Engine Driver Street) at the outer edge of the newly built district Sockerbruket lies a pedestrian and bicycle track with somewhat irregular cross-striped markings. These markings bear a close resemblance to railway sleepers and are intended to do so as a reminder of the former railway line – (Bjärredsbanan) […]
In the south-eastern part of the Botanical Gardens “Botan”, lies a small pond which, during the first half of the 20th century, fulfilled a very special and symbolic function. On the first day of the Jewish New Year, is the time when families from Nöden went to cast their sins into the water. The custom […]
At the intersection of Ö Vallgatan and S Esplanaden, lies a bronze tablet on a granite stone slab. Its purpose is to commemorate the old city wall and medieval street that once ran along this part of the city. The tablet was placed here following reconstruction work on the intersection in 1990. After a heated […]
It is quite remarkable that, within only a distance 7 km as the bird flies, Lund rises from about 9 metres above sea level by the river Höje å in the south to 90 metres above sea level at Klosterängshöjden, (where the black bulls are located), next to E22 motorway in the north of the […]
The Lundagård Stone, at 4.6 m, is Denmark’s tallest runestone and was probably erected at the end of the 10th century. It was discovered in the ruins of the former All Saints monastery in 1682. Within this former monastery area, the then newly built University Library was inaugurated in 1907.The runestone was probably moved to […]
Since 1978, in the northeast corner of the Botanical Gardens stands a remnant of the university building’s original ornamentation. In 1882, Helgo Zettervall had decorated his university creation with cement sculptures. At the main entrance stood four huge female figures intended to symbolise the different faculties of the university. These so-called faculty ladies were deemed “good […]
The trees stand as sentinels posted around a shallow depression marking the site of the now dried-up Råby spring. A furtive imagination is required for the visitor to picture the round pavilion with thatched roof over a spring, a dance floor and a red-painted wooden building with a skittle alley that once stood here. The […]
Why are some paving stones white and laid out in a pattern? This question is perhaps asked by many Lund residents when cycling or walking by Kattesund. The simple answer is that they mark where the walls and columns of a large stave church was once located in the eleventh century. Stave churches were built of […]
“It’s based on a child’s desire to hide, slide and climb up high to feel that sense of danger.” This is how, at the end of the 1940’s, the Danish sculptor and architect Egon Möller-Nielsen explained the thinking that lay behind his play sculptures.One result has been that Tufsen gives the residents of Lund of […]
