Diplomatstaden

The Diplomatic City in Stockholm ( Diplomat Staden i Stockholm ) is an exclusive residential area in Östermalm district in the capital of Sweden. The remarkable thing about this unofficial part of the city are a dozen palatial villas, in which various missions abroad have emerged during the 1910s and 1920s and housed, hence the name " Diplomat Staden ".

Geographical Location

The diplomats city has no officially defined borders and initially covered only the original residential area. Today there are also the neighboring area with some foreign embassies to do so. The area is north of Djurgårdsbrunnsviken in the Östermalm district.

The cities plan

In 1911, Ferdinand Boberg here the architect had drawn designs for a mono mental Nobel Palace in honor of Alfred Nobel, this plan was never realized, and only the name " Nobel Park" and " Nobel Road" ( Nobelgatan ) around remember it.

In the years 1911-1914 the urban planner Per Olof Hallman drew a development plan for exclusive single-family homes east of the Nobel parks. On his plan of 1911, the Land ( Red) is for the Nobel palace to see and (brown ) of the first part of the residential area. This city plan has today (2008 ) Validity.

Hallman arranged in a fan shape in a semicircle eleven plots to the English Church ( Engelska kyrkan ) to. In the development plan criteria, such as the allowable size of the living space, the Bauabstand to neighboring properties, the outer shape of the villas and the like has been set. The facades should consist mainly of red brick, which gave the settlement a uniform character.

The residential area

The stately villas were all composed during the years 1913 to 1927 and were designed by the then most prominent architects of the country, among them Ragnar Östberg ( architect of the Stockholm City Hall ), Carl Westman ( architect of Stockholm rådhus ) and Ivar Tengbom ( architect of Stockholm Konserthus ).

Initially, there were wealthy individuals, the representative private villas with lots of space for himself and ordered to numerous staff and the high value placed on discretion. The first villa was built in 1913 for the banker Philip donors and was designed by Ragnar Östberg. Architectural style elements for simultaneously resulting Stockholm city hall are unmistakable. Inside the building itself arcades and decorated with sculptures by Carl Milles Fountain hide.

The first " diplomats Villa " was built in 1915 for the British Embassy and was designed by Sir Richard Allison. 1921 recorded Ivar Tenbom Villa Tillberg, which is now home to the Embassy of South Korea. Other buildings to be scheduled by the embassies of the U.S., Turkey and Hungary. One of the last villas ready to move in 1927, this had Ragnar Östberg for the publisher Åke Bonnier Elder designed. The villa was in 1981 the Swedish government passed last will and testament and is now used for representative purposes.

The messages

North of the residential area six embassies have settled for the United States, Norway, the UK, Germany, Japan and Finland after the Second World War. These are not villas but at modern office complexes. One of the first was the message for Norway (1952) and the latest embassy building is for Finland ( 2001).

In 1975, the German Embassy attended (then West Germany ) for media splash here on 24 April, the hostage-taking in Stockholm took place, in which two members and two embassy hostage-takers were killed. The building has undergone from 2007 to 2010 an extensive renovation. The message for this time moved into a building in the Artillerigatan.

Historical Images

Tryggerska villan

Look at Diplomat Staden

Bünsowska villan