Kungsparken, Gothenburg

Kungsparken, Gothenburg
Kungsparken, Gothenburg
	Kungsparken in winter
Location	Gothenburg, Sweden
Coordinates	57°42′3.74″N 11°58′2.85″E / 57.7010389°N 11.9674583°E
Opened	Mid-1850
Owned by	Västra Götaland Regional Council
Status	Open year round

Kungsparken (Swedish for King's park), originally Kungsportsparken, is a 13-hectare park behind Stora Teatern in Gothenburg, which encloses most of Nya Allén walkway, and constitutes a so-called park district. Kungsparken was built in several stages between 1839 and 1861.^[1]^[2]

In the 1940s and 1950s, the park was a meeting place for the city's homosexual men.^[3]

References

^ "Underlagsrapport PM kulturhistoriskt värdefulla riskobjekt – parker och grönområden" (PDF). Trafikverket. 2023-04-01. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-07-27. Retrieved 2024-07-27.
^ "Kulturhistoriskt värdefull bebyggelse i Göteborg" (PDF). Göteborgs Stadsmuseum. 2021-10-22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-03-19. Retrieved 2024-07-27.
^ Nilsson, Arne (2010). "From rundan to bögberget: male homosexual life in "the city of parks"". (Re)searching Gothenburg: Essays on a Changing City. 2010: 251–256. LIBRIS: 12130875.

External links

Media related to Kungsparken, Göteborg at Wikimedia Commons
Park information from Gothenburg municipality

[1] "Underlagsrapport PM kulturhistoriskt värdefulla riskobjekt – parker och grönområden" (PDF). Trafikverket. 2023-04-01. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-07-27. Retrieved 2024-07-27.

[2] "Kulturhistoriskt värdefull bebyggelse i Göteborg" (PDF). Göteborgs Stadsmuseum. 2021-10-22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-03-19. Retrieved 2024-07-27.

[3] Nilsson, Arne (2010). "From rundan to bögberget: male homosexual life in "the city of parks"". (Re)searching Gothenburg: Essays on a Changing City. 2010: 251–256. LIBRIS: 12130875.

[1]

[2]

[3]