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Kolsnäsvägen
1 Start Touristoffice
Kolsnäsvägen
2 Kolsnäs folkpark with among others the sculpture ”Fryksdalen”
by Torsten Treutiger. The park is an important place in the novels of
Göran Tunströms.
3 Sundsbergs Gård. ”Björne” in ”Gösta Berlings Saga”. According to the saga on ”Björne” lived the foundry proprietor Melchior Sinclair with his wife Gustava and his daughter, the beautiful Marianne. In the saga the drama which begins at the ball at Ekeby and ends with the auction at Björne is described. Today the manor is a museum showing the living culture during three centuries, a gallery, handicraft shop and a cafe.
Ekebyvägen
4 Köpmangården, the former grocery is today a restaurant. It
was built and ran by Nathan Hedin, a well known personage and writer.
Ekebyvägen
5 Ekeby house. Here in a flat with one room and kitchen Göran Tunström
moved with his family after his father’s death. He describes the
heavy loss of his father and his home in his book ”Prästungen”.
Ekebyvägen
(crossing Skäggebergsvägen - Långgatan
6 Villa Helios. Photographer Axel Aurelius built the house in Jugend style
1904. Aurelius had his studio here. The dentist Tore Sjökvist started
his practice in 1932 and continued till 1990 when he was 87 years old.
Today the practice i a museum. The house is now owned by Sunne Community
after a donation of Birgitta and Tore Sjökvist.
7 Teaterbiografen. One of Swedens oldest cinemas which is still in operation. The cinema was inaugurated December 9th 1915.
Storgatan
8 Slottet. The first shop building which the city was growing around,
built 1849. 1850 the first company, a pharmacy, moved in. 1870 started
Nilssons Shop which later got the name Sundsviksboden. Selma Lagerlöf
named it in one of her books. When Selma Lagerlöf 13 years old, she
didn’t like go to a ball but was forced by his father to join it.
The ball was on the second floor above ”Sundsviksboden”. Once
here was the community house, too. The skylight on the roof was once used
as a Swedish puch veranda.
9 Långgatan with its typical wooden buildings from the middle of the 1860ns and the longest covering of paving stones in Värmland
10 Broby Gästgivaregård. There met Gösta Berling the major’s wife from Ekeby in Selma Lagerlöf’s novel.
Höglundagatan
11 Monument at Åmbergsheden (erected by Fryksdalens Gille). Here
once was a big market every first Friday in October and a exercises place
for Fryksdalens company.
Hembygdsvägen
12 Sunne Hembygdsgård lies idyllic in the outskirt of the town.
The main building was moved here and inaugurated in 1957. At the area
you will find a school museum, an old country shop, a smith, a loft, a
soldier’s holding, old storehouses and the old courthouse with museum.
13 Sunne church. One of the biggest in the diocese. Named in most of the books of Göran Tunströms. On the east side Göran Tunström is buried beside his parents Rosa and Hugo Tunström. On the south side you can see a bust of dean Anders Fryxell, the creator of the Värmland’s song and well known professor of history. In Selma Lagerlöfs Gösta Berlings Saga the church is called Bro. In the tower the silver bullet was melt under magic circumstances which should take the life of the bear on Gurlitta Klätt. Even Göran Tunströms named the church in his books. novel
Torvnäsvägen
- Fryxellsvägen
14 Area around the dean yard. The dean yard is of ancient lineage of the
13th century. From the 17th century a cellar i preserved. You find even
different storehouses at this area. This place i named both in Selma Lagerlöf
and Göran Tunstöms novels.
In the first house at Tunströms väg the vicarage where Göran
Tunström growed up, is situated.
Storgatan
15 The former Hotell Sunne is named in Göran Tunström’s
novel. J.P. Fryk built the house 1902 as a hotel, office and apartment
house. From 1934 on about 50 years family Mård ran a hotel here.
Opposite in the first house on the right side at Fryxellvägen once
was a very well known fashion shop where Selma Lagerlöf did her shoppings.
Presumably the owner Fanny Huss-Strandell was the model for Fanny Udde
in Göran Tunström’s novel. Beside lies Haga-Ramströms
house. Lars Ramström had his printing works here during the 1930ns.
Selma Lagerlöf bought her paper here.
Storgatan
16 Watchman’s house. Connected with the building of the bridge 1898
the house for the bridge watchman was built. Here a watchman lived untill
1963 when the bridge was closed for ever. Once here was the police station
and a jail, too.
Kolsnäsvägen
17 Finish. Touristoffice.
Sunne Turism AB, 41. Turistbyrån, 68680 Sunne, tfn. 0565-16770, fax 0565-16460, turist@sunne.se, turist.sunne.se