Onkel Adamsgården

Onkel Adamsgården is a city farm in Linköping with wooden houses from the 18th and 19th centuries and a restored garden. The farm is named after the doctor and writer Carl Anton Wetterbergh, pseudonym Onkel Adam. The garden and the museum apartment are shown a few times each year.

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Onkel Adamsgården is located at Hunnebergsgatan 30 A in Linköping.

A well-preserved city farm

During the 18th century, the population in Sweden grew and more and more people moved to the cities. During this period, a new type of wooden house began to be built in our cities. Behind a red wooden façade on Hunnebergsgatan in Linköping hides Onkel Adamsgården, built in 1795.

Onkel Adamsgården is named after the doctor and writer Carl Anton Wetterbergh, pseudonym Onkel Adam, who lived here during the latter part of the 19th century. The farm is one of Linköping's most well-preserved city farms. There are wooden buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries and a restored garden.

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Onkel Adam

Carl Anton Wetterbergh (1804–1889) had a strong social interest. Among other things, he wrote novels and short stories that were popular in the mid-1800s. From 1862 he also published the esteemed children's magazine Linnéa.

Carl Anton Wetterbergh was married to Hedda Brydolf, a priest's daughter from Hällestad in northern Östergötland. They lived in different places in Sweden, where Carl Anton's service as a military doctor took them. In 1867, the couple moved to Hunnebergsgatan in Linköping, where Hedda's sister Adriana already lived. It was the two sisters who owned the property.

Interiör i museilägenheten i Onkel Adamsgården med möbler klädda i lila tyg, en spegel och ett flertal tavlor på väggarna, fönster med spetsgardiner och en piedestal med byst föreställande Carl Anton Wetterbergh, pseudonymen Onkel Adam.

Buildings

During the 18th century and most of the 19th century, there was not much difference between a farm in the country and a farm in the city. Many different buildings also belonged to a city farm. At Onkel Adamsgården there is a wagon shed with a cellar, a stable with a haystack and magazine, a wood shed, a goat pen and an outhouse. In the garden stands a simple gazebo. All buildings are red-coloured wooden houses. Their use may not be quite the same today, but they are still around and are piled up in rows. The residence is probably from the 1790s. On the upper floor there is today a museum apartment with furniture and decorative items that have belonged to Carl Anton and Hedda Wetterbergh. The apartment was furnished as a museum in 1927.

Onkel Adamsgården i Linköping, exteriör, sedd från trädgårdssidan. Rabatter med utslagna gula och röda blommor.

Garden

Growing vegetables, fruit and berries used to be an important part of livelihoods, even for city dwellers. Several of the owners of the property on Hunnebergsgatan were interested in gardening. Perhaps the interest primarily concerned the garden's usefulness, but the garden also gave peace. We know that from such things descriptions written by visitors to Onkel Adam.

The garden was restored in 2002 – 2003. After a garden archaeological survey, it was decided how the gravel paths would go and where the gate would be placed. There was also a drawing from 1929 that could be used. The central aisle is lined with flower beds and along some of the side aisles there are berry bushes. There are fruit trees in the flower beds and among the berry bushes. Perennials and roses have different ages and historically not all of these plants were here at the same time. The garden nevertheless broadly reflects an older urban garden.