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Lorensberg

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Swedish

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Part of Lorensberg district, with Gothenburg Concert Hall (lower left) on boulevard Kungsportsavenyen.
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The location of Lorensberg.

Etymology

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Compound of Lorens +‎ berg, literally “Lorens's Hill”, from Lorensberg Estate, named after trader Lorens Petersén who owned the estate 1770–1800.[1]

Proper noun

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Lorensberg ? (genitive Lorensbergs)

  1. A district in Gothenburg, Sweden.

References

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  1. ^ Svenskt ortnamnslexikon (2016), Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore and Uppsala University Department of Scandinavian Languages
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