Mårbacka
Mårbacka is the name of a small manor house in the municipality of Sunne in Värmland , Sweden . The Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf was born on Mårbacka . Today Mårbacka is a museum and one of Sweden's most visited attractions.
history
There has been a farm on the Mårbacka site since the 17th century. The building in which Selma Lagerlöf was to be born was built by her great-grandfather (father of her paternal grandmother) Pastor Wennerwik in the 1790s. It was a rather simple wooden building in the typical red color, but with a central entrance and a veranda it was reminiscent of a manor.
Mårbacka served as a parsonage for three generations, and the pastor's daughter used to marry the next pastor. The pastors could not live on their salaries and had to farm on the side. Selma Lagerlöf's paternal grandmother, Lisa Maja Wennerwik ( portrayed as Maja Lisa Lyselius in Liljecrona's home ), broke with tradition and did not marry a pastor, but the regimental clerk and estate manager Daniel Lagerlöf.
His son, Lieutenant Erik Gustaf Lagerlöf, Selma Lagerlöf's father, continued to farm and built a large stable. But he got into economic difficulties and could not implement his grand plans. After his death in 1885 the family did not manage to solve the economic problems, so Mårbacka had to be sold in 1890.
Selma Lagerlöf grew up on Mårbacka and lived here until 1881. On New Year's Day in 1908 she bought back the Mårbacka manor house. In the years 1908 to 1909 she carried out an initial renovation and gave the previously simple house a villa-like appearance with a new veranda and a frontispiece .
In 1910, Selma Lagerlöf also bought the land back with the money she had received for the Nobel Prize for Literature . In 1914 she was able to double the property through renewed acquisitions.
From 1921 to 1923 Selma Lagerlöf carried out another major renovation and made Mårbacka a representative mansion, now made of stone, in the historic Carolinian style. Mårbacka can now be visited in this form, which no longer has much in common with the original simple wooden house.
Selma Lagerlöf ran agriculture in Mårbacka - in the tradition of her ancestors. She saw Mårbacka as a life's work alongside writing; often enough all the income from their books went to the Mårbacka farm.
In her will, Selma Lagerlöf determined that Mårbacka should be preserved and shown unchanged for posterity after her death. Mårbacka has been a museum since 1942 and is a popular attraction.
Mårbacka in Selma Lagerlöf's factory
For Selma Lagerlöf, Mårbacka was the epitome of the home, where order and security prevail and which convey happiness and security. In this capacity she pays homage to Mårbacka under the name Lövdala in the works of Gösta Berling , Liljecronas Heim and - on the edge - The Emperor of Portugal and as an unnamed small manor in chapter 49 of the novel Nils Holgersson . In her autobiography she then describes Mårbacka under the real name.
literature
- Rejo Rüster and Lars Westmann: Selma på Mårbacka , Stockholm 1996.
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Coordinates: 59 ° 46 ′ 52.6 ″ N , 13 ° 13 ′ 59.5 ″ E