MÃ¥rbacka

Mårbacka is the name of a small manor house in the town of Sunne in Värmland, Sweden. On Mårbacka the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf was born. Today is Mårbacka museum and one of the most visited attractions in Sweden.

History

A farm was located on the grounds of Mårbacka since the 17th century. The building in which Selma Lagerlöf was born, built in the 1790s, her great-grandfather ( father of her paternal grandmother ) Pastor Wennerwik. It was a rather plain timber in the typical red color, but already had some manor Excessive by a central entrance and a veranda.

Mårbacka served in three generations as a vicarage, with the pastor's daughter in each case the next pastors used to get married. The pastor could not live on their salaries and had to drive by the way agriculture. Selma Lagerlöf's paternal grandmother, Lisa Maja Wennerwik (as Maja Lisa Lyselius in Liljecronas Home portrayed ), broke with tradition and married no pastor, but the regimental clerk and bailiff Daniel Lagerlöf.

His son, Lieutenant Erik Gustaf Lagerlöf, Selma Lagerlöf's father ran, further agriculture and built a large barn. But he ran into financial difficulties and was unable to implement his grand plans. After his death in 1885 did not succeed in the family to solve the economic problems, and 1890 had to be sold Mårbacka.

Selma Lagerlof grew up Mårbacka on and lived here until 1881. On New Year's Day of 1908, she bought the manor of Mårbacka back. In 1908 to 1909 she undertook a first conversion and gave the hitherto simple house with a new patio and a frontispiece villas like appearance.

1910 Selma Lagerlöf acquired with the money they had received for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the country back. In 1914 she was able to double the land by new acquisitions.

From 1921 to 1923 Selma Lagerlöf undertook a major renovation and re- made ​​Mårbacka to a representative, well -built stone mansion in historicizing Carolingian style. In this figure, no longer has much in common with the original simple wooden house, Mårbacka can be visited today.

Selma Lagerlöf operation in Mårbacka - in the tradition of their ancestors - agriculture. She looked Mårbacka addition to writing his life's work to; often went all the revenue from their books in the operation of Mårbacka.

In her will, Selma Lagerlof certain that Mårbacka be unchanged for posterity after her death and is to be shown. Since 1942 Mårbacka Museum and a much visited attraction.

Mårbacka in Selma Lagerlöf's work

Mårbacka life was the epitome of the home, prevail in the order and security and give the happiness and security for Selma Lagerlof. In this capacity, she pays homage Mårbacka under the name Lövdala in the works of Gosta Berling, Liljecronas home and - on the edge - The Emperor of Portugal as well as nameless Lien 's House, Nils Holgersson. In her autobiography she then describes Mårbacka under the correct name.