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believed to be more to its current home at Lidköping
than 200 years old. in south-west Sweden.
During a major face lift Rörstrandsgatan was the site
in the 1940s, the of one of the city’s first Chinese
appearance of the restaurants, and today the many
sec tion along Torsgatan outdoor cafés give the street a
was changed. Three colourful atmo sphere during
terraced gardens were summer. The area around
added with granite Rörstrandsgatan and
and concrete walls and Odengatan has several nice
An eight-stemmed chanukiah (candlestick) in the reliefs. Gottfrid Larsson’s shops, bars and restaurants.
collection of Judiska museet bronze statue The
Workman has stood
6 Judiska museet in this part of the park since 9 Karlbergs Slott
1917. On the opposite side
Hälsingegatan 2. Map 2 A2. Tel 08-557 of the park is Romeo and Juliet, Map 1 B1. Tel 08-734 20 00.
735 60.  Odenplan. @ 4, 72. @ 42, 72 to the station of Karlberg,
Open noon–4pm Mon–Fri & Sun. a small granite sculpture by then 15 min walk. 8 groups only,
8 in English by appointment. & 7 Olof Thorwald Ohlsson. by appointment.
= - ∑ judiska-museet.se
Admiral Karl Karlsson
In 1774 Aaron Isaac became the Gyllenhielm started to build
first Jewish immigrant to settle Karlbergs Slott in the 1630s,
in Stockholm and practise his during the Thirty Years’ War.
religion. Half of Sweden’s Jewish From 1670 the palace was
population of around 18,000 extended and rebuilt by
live in the Stockholm area. Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie,
Judiska museet depicts the with Jean de la Vallée as his
history of the Swedish Jews architect. When Karlberg
from Isaac’s time up to the be came royal property in 1688,
present day. It focuses on Vasaparken, a green lung in the built-up it was one of Sweden’s most
Judaism as a religion, its area of Vasastan majestic palaces. It was where
integration into Swedish society the “hero king”, Karl XII (1682–
and also the Holocaust. 1718), grew up, and it was here
A comprehensive collection 8 Rörstrandsgatan that he lay in state after his
of pictures and other items Map 1 C1.  S:t Eriksplan. @ 3, 4, 42, death at the Battle of
provide an insight into Jewish 57, 72. Fredrikshald (see p21).
life in Sweden with its important In 1792 the architect C C
traditions and customs. The This street takes its name from Gjörwell converted the proper ty
beautiful Torah (the five books the no-longer-existing into the Royal War Academy,
of Moses) and the col lection Rörstrand palace, built in the which later became the Karl-
of eight-stemmed chanukiot early 1630s. In the summer of berg Military School, and since
(candlesticks) are just some 1726 the manufacture of Delft- 1999 it has been one of the
of the museum’s remarkable style porcelain started in the country’s military academies.
spiritual artifacts. building. Two hundred years Cadet balls at Karlberg are
later the now-famous Rörstrand unforgettable experiences, not
porcelain factory was moved to least because of the magnifi-
7 Vasaparken the Gothen burg area and then cent setting. The interior
Map 2 A3.  S:t Eriksplan. @
3, 4, 72.
Vasaparken dates from the early
20th century. It was typical of
parks of its time with its
emphasis on sport exemplified
by the inclusion of a spacious
grass sports field. During World
War I the field was used for
growing potatoes. A playground
area was added in 1911.
It is a leafy and pleasant park.
With few exceptions the trees
were planted when the park
was opened, but a lime tree in
the shape of a candelabra is Karlbergs Slott, a palace dating from the 1630s – now one of Sweden’s military academies

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