Ebba Lindqvists Plats, Grebbestad, Tanum, Sweden

After I had visited Grebbestad Church and Cemetery during my visit to Tanum in June 2010, I passed Ebba Lindqvists Plats (a translation is surely not needed). The place was raised in memory of the poet Ebba Lindqvist (1908-1995), who grew up in Grebbestad. Engraved in the granite are four of her many poems - Samhället ("The Society"), Vi som är födda vid havet ("We who are born at the sea"), Sommar och vinter ("Summer and winter") and Djupt, djupt i mitt hjärta ("Deep, deep in my heart"). The portrait bust is made by the artist Per Agelii.

The official website of Sällskapet Ebba Lindqvists Vänner ("The Society of Ebba Lindqvist's Friends") can be found here. Lindqvist is buried at the Grebbestad Cemetery. If I had noticed the memorial before I visited the cemetery, I might have looked for her grave. Maybe another time...

Grebbestad Church and Cemetery, Tanum, Sweden

If one could only be able to read the signature...

The Runehäll family grave.

I visited Tanum municipality and the idyllic localities Fjällbacka and Grebbestad in the middle of June this year, but the last couple of blog articles from this visit have been put on hold for some time.

Grebbestads kyrka (church), built from the Bohuslän red granite, was finished in 1892 and had the same architect as Fjällbacka Church, Adrian C. Peterson. The church has a rather large cemetery with many interesting monuments, but unfortunately - as can be seen from the photos above - not all the graves have been taken well care of.

Fjällbacka Church and Cemetery, Tanum, Sweden

The grave of Jens Läckberg is mentioned in Camilla Läckberg's novel Fyrvaktaren ("The Lighthouse Keeper"), 2009. In the Norwegian edition, p. 379, one can read:

«Han ligger ved siden av Jens.» Erica pekte på en rund gravstein i vakker granitt med navnet Jens Läckberg inngravert. Jens hadde vært en god venn av faren, og de husket ham godt fra oppveksten. En blid, sosial og spøkefull mann med trivelig ølmage. («He is lying next to Jens.» Erica pointed at a round gravestone in beautiful granite with the name Jens Läckberg engraved. Jens had been a good friend of their father, and they remembered him well from when they were growing up. A friendly, social and humorous man with a charming beer gut. (Blog editor's translation.))

Presumably Camilla Läckberg had written her own father into the story.

The stranger from the sea.

A grave of German soldiers who were washed ashore during WW1. The bodies were moved to the German section of Kviberg cemetery in Gothenburg in 1966. I suppose that the grave shown in the photo is the same grave mentioned in Camilla Läckberg's novel Tyskungen ("The German Brat") from 2007, in my opinion the best book she has written so far.

Fjällbacka kyrka (church) was finished in 1892. It was built from the red granite which can only be found in Bohuslän. The cemetery was consecrated in 1907 and expanded in 1970.

Sources/references

• Fjällbacka church (Wikipedia article, Swedish version)
• The official website of Camilla Läckberg (Swedish and English version)

Updated last time on Monday 12 July 2010 at 22.30.