Odenplan

Last updated September 04, 2019

Odenplan is a plaza located in the district Vasastaden in central Stockholm, Sweden.

Plaza public square in the center of a town or city

A plaza, pedestrian plaza, or place is an open urban public space, such as a city square.

A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions of municipalities, school district, or political district.

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous urban area in the Nordic countries; 965,232 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.6 million in the urban area, and 2.4 million in the metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the city to the east, and along the coast, is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. It is also the county seat of Stockholm County.

History

Odenplan was named after the old Norse god Odin. Odenplan metro station, opened in 1952, and Stockholm Odenplan commuter train station on the Stockholm commuter rail, opened in 2017, are located here. ^[1]

Norse mythology is the body of myths of the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Norse paganism and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia, and into the Scandinavian folklore of the modern period. The northernmost extension of Germanic mythology, Norse mythology consists of tales of various deities, beings, and heroes derived from numerous sources from both before and after the pagan period, including medieval manuscripts, archaeological representations, and folk tradition.

Odin is a widely revered god in Germanic mythology. In Norse mythology, from which stems most surviving information about the god, Odin is associated with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet, and is the husband of the goddess Frigg. In wider Germanic mythology and paganism, the god was known in Old English as Wōden, in Old Saxon as Wōdan, and in Old High German as Wuotan.

Odenplan metro station is a station on the green line of the Stockholm metro, next Odenplan in Vasastaden, Stockholm, in the city centre. The station was inaugurated on 26 October 1952 as a part of the stretch between Hötorget and Vällingby. It is 3.4 km from Slussen.

Odenplan was portrayed in the 1976 thriller film The Man on the Roof , in which a helicopter crashes in the plaza. It also appears in the opening credits to the 1999 film Vuxna människor .

The Man on the Roof is a 1976 Swedish police procedural-thriller film directed by Bo Widerberg. It is based on the novel The Abominable Man by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. The film stars Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Sven Wollter, Thomas Hellberg and Håkan Serner.

Stockholm Public Library and Gustaf Vasa Church (Gustaf Vasa kyrka) are located nearby.^[2]

Stockholm Public Library is a library building in Stockholm, Sweden, designed by Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund, and one of the city's most notable structures. The name is today used for both the main library itself as well as the municipal library system of Stockholm.

Coordinates: 59°20′34″N18°02′59″E / 59.34278°N 18.04972°E / 59.34278; 18.04972

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References

↑ "Citybanans stationer". Swedish Transport Administration (in Swedish). Retrieved 28 February 2017.
↑ "Gustaf Vasa kyrka". svenskakyrkan. Retrieved August 1, 2019.

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[1] "Citybanans stationer". Swedish Transport Administration (in Swedish). Retrieved 28 February 2017.

[2] "Gustaf Vasa kyrka". svenskakyrkan. Retrieved August 1, 2019.