The most beautiful Astrid Lindgren places in Sweden

Pippilotta Viktualia Rollgardina peppermint Efraimstaughter Longstocking is called the heroine who shaped entire generations of children and adults. The little girl herself is as unusual as her name: strong, cheeky and freedom -loving, the magic of Pippi Longstocking and her author Astrid Lindgren is unbroken even after 80 years. The stories about the pirate subsidiary still move many people to Sweden And to the places where Pippi seems to live.

A yellow-pink wooden house where there was everything that had to appear strange when the book was published in 1945: lots of space, money and sweets in abundance. Without adults or rules, Pippi masters her everyday life. « I’m a child and that’s a home. So this is a children’s home here, » the redhead is convinced. So where there is such a home When the Swedish director Olle Hellbom staged the first film adaptation of Pippi Longstocking in 1969?

First of all, the director tried a newspaper advertisement that ended with the request: « The house, the horse, Tommy and the monkey can send in to the following address: North Art, Fack, Stockholm 1. » In the end, however, it was not the mail, but chance that Hellbom led to the Swedish island of Gotland. Gotland is the largest island of the Baltic Sea and is one of the sunniest places Sweden. In keeping with this, the Villa Kunterbunt has always been painted yellow. It was on a military military training area And served as an administrator. The film crew was allowed to use the villa as an outside backdrop, all interior shots were shot in a studio in Stockholm. However, the military had no objection that painters painted parts of the Rosa building, as well as other craftsmen towers, chimneys and wood veranda.

In 1970 the army wanted to leave the villa in need of renovation. However, since public resistance was encouraged, the army auctioned the house. At that time, the small business owner Einar Nyberg led a campsite near the military training area and bought the « Villa Villekulla », as it is called in Swedish. He hoped to market them as a tourist magnet. The house hiked on a sled two kilometers closer to the capital Visby and was extensively renovated. In retrospect, Nyberg’s plan has come up: The Villa Kunterbunt is now in the middle of the “Kneippbyn’s Summer and Wasserland” amusement park.

But Pippi leaves her traces not only in the « Villa Villekulla »: With her friends Tommy and Annika, she visits a fair in the book « Pippi Longstocking on tour » – what director Hellbom takes over in the film « Pippi Longstocking goes on board ». He was in close contact with Lindgren for both the series and the three films. So how could it be different than that the fair in the region is shot is inseparably connected to the Lindgren? Småland, a southeastern province in Sweden, is known for her picturesque nature. And in addition to forests and lakes, the port city of Västervik is also located here.

For the Pippi film scene, the hype was set up on the historic fair area there. Here Tommy, Annika and Pippi meet the strong Alfons. Does anyone dare to accept it with him? Of course the « strongest girl in the world ». When Pippi defeated Alfons, Tommy is amazed: « But you’re a child. » « Who says that children shouldn’t be super strong? », The redhead replies. The strength of the little girl, The already personalities like Michelle Obama Inspired in her childhood, it was probably from the life of the creator Lindgren himself. As a single parent, who decided to marry the child’s older father, the writer also opposed the conventions that were common at the time.

Lindgren was born in 1907 as the second oldest of four children in the South Swedish small town of Vimmerby in Småland. The siblings grew up on a farm in Näs, which is still owned by the family. The traditionally Swedish farmhouse is a red wooden building with white window frames, It is now part of the « Astrid Lindgren Museum ». In the meantime, the museum in the wet is more focused on the author, the nearby « Astrid Lindgren World » amusement park offers an interactive experience: the theme park is devoting itself entirely to the stories and characters from her books. In addition to Pippi Longstocking, Karlsson from the roof, Michel from Lönneberga and Ronja robber daughter, also come to life here.

With its small houses, streets and gardens, Vimmerby can be found in many of Lindgren’s books. Lindgren is omnipresent in the community in northern Småland. Here is the red parents’ house of her best friend Anne Marie Ingeström, where the author even passed on her way to school every day. The friends remained closely connected after their school days-also professionally, since Anne-Marie later worked as a children’s book reactor at the publisher, who also published Lindgrens books. Both are buried in Vimmerby’s cemetery. The yellow building of the local daily newspaper is also right next to the friend’s parents’ house Vimmerby Tidning. Here Lindgren began to write for the public at the age of 16.

But Lindgren was only the world -famous writerwhen she moved to Stockholm in 1926 at the age of 18. She lived in a charming city apartment in Dalagatan 46. Even today you can visit the apartment. And Lindgren himself also opened the « Junibacken » children’s culture center in 1996, which has since developed into one of the most visited attractions in Stockholm. Together with the artist Marit Törnqvist wanted to create a place to inspire children to read. Which her stories are still able to do 80 years later.

But if you travel through Sweden in the footsteps of Astrid Lindgren, of course, it also moves to Katthult, the courtyard on which Michel from Lönneberga lived with his family, where he pulled his sister Ida up the flag mast. The place sign alone is already nostalgic. But then there are also the famous carpenter, the beautiful red farmhouse with the striking front door. Everything straight as if the film team had only been deducted yesterday. Kathult is still family -owned. But you can visit the location, which is 10 kilometers away from Mariannelund and against admission.

The hamlet of Sevedstorp is only 14 kilometers away, with three red houses in a row. Astrid Lindgren lovers already suspect: this is actually Bullerbü-including fruit trees, gardens and old barn, in which visitors and visitors can drink coffee. The houses themselves cannot be visited. Nevertheless: more Sweden idyll is not possible.

It is a topic park in Småland, but here too you can immerse yourself in the book world of the Swedish writer. The season begins from mid -May. Here the Heckenrosental, Birkenlund, the Löwenherz brothers or the Mattisburg from Ronja Robber’s daughter can be visited here, of course you can go to the Villa Kunterbunt and do not try to touch the ground in Bullerbü. There are performances in the individual subject areas. Not only children can get lost here for hours. And of course there are terribly sweet sweets here at many corners. Pippi would have wanted it that way.