Skogskyrkogården
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UNESCO World Heritage Site | |
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Location | Gamla Enskede, Stockholm Municipality, Sweden |
Criteria | Cultural: (ii), (iv) |
Reference | 558rev |
Inscription | 1994 (18th Session) |
Area | 108.08 ha (0.4173 sq mi) |
Website | skogskyrkogarden |
Coordinates | 59°16′32″N 18°05′58″E / 59.27556°N 18.09944°E |
Skogskyrkogården (pronounced
History
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Skogskyrkogården came about following an international competition in 1915 for the design of a new cemetery in
The basis for the route through the cemetery is a long route leading from the ornamental colonnaded entrance that then splits, one way leading through a pastoral landscape, complete with a large pond and a tree-lined meditation hill, and the other up to a large detached granite cross and the abstract portico of the crematorium and the chapels of the Holy Cross, Faith, and Hope. The paths then rejoin and pass along a dead-straight path through a dense grove of tall pine trees, the so-called Way of Seven Wells, leading to the "Uppståndelsekapellet" or Resurrection Chapel. The giant dark granite cross at the focus of the vista from the main entrance has also been described as having been based on a painting by Caspar David Friedrich, titled "Cross on the Baltic Sea" (1815), signifying hope in an abandoned world; yet Asplund and Lewerentz insisted that the cross was open to non-Christian interpretations, even quoting Friedrich: "To those who see it as such, a consolation, to those who do not, simply a cross."[3]
The architects designed the entire complex, from the landscape to the smallest lamp, though there are also integrated sculptures by Carl Milles. Lewerentz's contribution mainly concerned the landscape but also the main entrance and the classical "Uppståndelsekapellet" or Resurrection Chapel, which was built in 1925. Asplund devoted himself mainly to the buildings, and the small Woodland Crematorium – built in 1935–40 – has been regarded as a central work in his oeuvre as well as the Nordic Classicism style of that period. The small chapel, set on a Tuscan peristyle and featuring a gold statue on the roof by Carl Milles, was in fact derived from a "primitive hut" that Asplund had happened to see in a garden at Liselund.[4] The crematorium, with its Faith, Hope, and Holy Cross Chapels, was Asplund's final work of architecture, designed in a rational modernist style typical for his later work, opened shortly before his death in 1940.
In 1994, Skogskyrkogården was named a
Skogskyrkogården is connected to a metro station by the same name (see Skogskyrkogården metro station).
Notable interments
- Artur Adson, (1889–1977), Estonian poet, writer and theatre critic (location)
- Emmy Albiin, (1873–1959), actress
- Gunnar Asplund (1885–1940), architect (location)
- Tim Bergling (1989–2018), musician and DJ, known professionally as Avicii (funeral here, remains buried at Hedvig Eleonora Churchyard) [5]
- Brasse Brännström (1945–2014), actor
- Ulla Bergryd (1942–2015), actress and Stockholm University's lecturer
- Arthur Fischer (1897–1991), actor
- Siegfried Fischer (1894–1976), actor
- Gustav Fonandern (1880–1960), architect, singer (location)
- Greta Garbo (1905–1990), actress (location)
- Alma Johansson (1880–1974), missionary (location)
- NHL
- Ivar Lo-Johansson (1901–1990), writer (location)
- Oscar A.C. Lund (1885–1963), silent film actor, director (location)
- Helmi Mäelo (1898–1978), Estonian writer and social activist
- U.S. National Championships (location)
- Anton Nilson (1887–1989), revolutionary communist (location)
- Lennart "Nacka" Skoglund (1929–1975), football star (location)
- Marie Under (1883–1980), Estonian poet
- Valborg Svensson (1903–1983), Swedish politician and journalist
- Lars-Göran Petrov (1972–2021), vocalist of Swedish death metal pioneers Entombed, famously photographed in front of the granite cross, in turn making it a site of pilgrimage for death metal fans even before the time of his death (location)
Gallery
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Graves at the garden
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Woodland Cemetery
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Information board at the main entrance to the Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm
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Path of the Seven Wells
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Memory site
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Skogskyrkogården in 1930
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Trough at Skogskyrkogården
References
- ^ "Startpage | Skogskyrkogården". Archived from the original on 2014-01-09. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
- ^ Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. "Skogskyrkogården". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
- ^ Ken Worpole, Last Landscapes: The Architecture of the Cemetery in the West, Reaktion Books, 2004, p. 147. Vaughan Hart, 'Sigurd Lewerentz and the 'Half-Open Door, Architectural History: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, vol. 36, 1996, pp. 181–96.
- ^ Kenneth Frampton, Modern Architecture – A Critical History. London, Thames & Hudson, 1980.
- ^ Stoppapressarna.se (in Swedish)