Mariastaden, Helsingborg — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Mariastaden?

One church anchors the district. Sankt Andreas kyrka rises among the residential streets of central Helsingborg and gives Mariastaden its fixed point, a parish sanctuary that the surrounding houses were laid out to face. The church is the quarter's landmark, and from its grounds the streets of this part of Helsingborgs kommun run out across south-western Sweden toward the older heart of the city.

What is the history of Mariastaden?

The district grew outward from the centre. As Helsingborg spread inland from its harbour and castle hill, the streets of Mariastaden were laid out as a planned residential quarter in the central part of the city, and Sankt Andreas kyrka was built to serve the parish that filled them. The houses came in waves.

The quarter settled into Helsingborgs kommun as one of the residential additions that carried this corner of south-western Sweden out from the old town.

Where is Mariastaden?

Mariastaden lies in the central part of Helsingborg, a planned residential quarter of low apartment blocks and terraced houses laid out along quiet streets that gather around Sankt Andreas kyrka, set back from the older core of the city in south-western Sweden. It belongs to Helsingborgs kommun, in Skåne County.