Danviken Hospital

Danviken Hospital
Danviken Hospital in 2009
Geography
Location	Stockholm County, Sweden
Coordinates	59°18′52″N 18°06′27″E / 59.31444°N 18.1075°E / 59.31444; 18.1075Coordinates: 59°18′52″N 18°06′27″E / 59.31444°N 18.1075°E / 59.31444; 18.1075
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Lists	Hospitals in Sweden

Map of Danviken Hospital in 1848.

Danvikens hospital was a historical Swedish hospital, Insane Asylum and Retirement home in Stockholm, active in 1558-1861. The area belonged to Stockholms kommun until 1984, when it was transferred to Nacka kommun.

The Danvikens hospital was founded by the initiative of King Gustav Vasa in 1558. The current building is designed by Göran Josuæ Adelcrantz (1668-1739) and dates back to 1718-1725. From the 1740s, the hospital also functioned as an Insane asylum. The hospital is frequently mentioned within literature and during the 18th-century and 19th-century, the name Danviken was used in common language as a synonym for a "Mad House". A famous description of the Danviken Asylum was Fältskärns berättelser (The tales of a Feldsher) by Zacharias Topelius from the 1780s. The facilities was emptied in 1861 and the asylum closed in 1863 because of the decaying buildings.

Sources

• This page is a translation of its Swedish equivalent.