Hagalund, Solna — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Hagalund?

Hagalunds kyrka rises over the district's grid of old houses, the parish marker for this eastern corner of Solna. A short way off, the Olle Olsson Hagalund-museet keeps the work of the painter whose canvases fixed these very streets in colour, while Solna kyrka, the medieval round church of the parish, stands among the trees as one of the oldest stones in Solna kommun. The district reaches into green ground.

Northward the parkland opens out. Fjärilshuset shelters its butterflies under glass near the edge of the royal park, and Haga parkmuseum tells the story of that landscape, with Haga Trädgård and the Andréemonumentet set among the lawns. Löftets kyrka lies within the wider reach of Stockholm County.

Together they ring a residential quarter of eastern Sweden with churches, a painter's museum, and the green of the park rather than one lone tower.

What is the history of Hagalund?

Hagalund grew as a workers' quarter. From the late nineteenth century its small painted houses filled the eastern slope of Solna, a dense timber settlement that the painter behind the Olle Olsson Hagalund-museet later set down on canvas. Much of the old grid was cleared in the postwar decades.

Yet a band of the historic houses survived around Hagalunds kyrka, and the district held its place in Solna kommun as the parish church of Solna kyrka anchored this part of Stockholm County through the suburban growth of eastern Sweden.

Where is Hagalund?

Hagalund sits on the eastern side of Solna, its blocks of old painted houses set out where Solna kommun rises toward the green expanse around Haga in this part of Stockholm County, close to the capital across the boundary in Stockholm. The streets keep a tight grid. Hagalunds kyrka stands among them, and the parkland of Haga Trädgård edges the district on its way north in eastern Sweden.