SWEDEN

Eslöv

Population: 16 500 (metro 31 000)
Year: 2010

Eslöv is situated  in the inland of Skåne some km northeast of Malmö and Lund. Since 2005 this small town is considered part of Greater Malmö. Eslöv has been named “Sweden’s most boring city” in a Swedish TV show by the TV personality Lasse Homqvist and the title is for many Swedes associated with Eslöv. (Holmqvist later told that he didn’t remember why he said that and that he actually meant Landskrona.) It is a bit rough on the edges and has no outstanding landmarks, but it actually looks ok and has some nice buildings.

Since 2011 there is a world class toy museum in Eslöv. It is a 75 year old (2019) family collection that opened to public, as a museum, for Eslöv's 100th anniversary as a city. It has two floors and you can see tons of model cars in several differents scales, LEGO models and landscapes, large model electric train landscapes with whole cities and moving details, WWII models, Star Wars, Game of Thrones, PEZ, dolls, soldiers, smurfs, Playmobil (with another moving electric train), Micromachines, airplanes, ships - you name it! The room where the electric train landscapes are, there is a button that shut the light down, while ights, lamps and so on create a night landscape! The family told that people come as far as from Thailand and Australia to visit this toy museum.

 


Trolleholm and Trollenäs Slott are 2 castles just outside Eslöv.
Click on the castle to the left to visit them.

 

Hotel Sten Stensson Sten, the grand hotel from 1993, located at Stora Torg has unfortunately fallen a bit into decay. It is considered the nicest building in Eslöv and summertime there are fountains in front of the building. It has Eslöv’s largest nightclub.

Eslöv reminds a bit of small towns in America.

Medborgarhuset (municipal building) from 1957 by the famous architect Hans Asplund.

Stora Torg has no significant buildings except for the hotel where this photo is taken from.

The sculpture “Snäckfågel” (shell bird) by Eric Grate at Stora Torg.

Eslöv’s railway station from 1914. Eslöv is a real railway community.

A very nice municipal building that stand out in Eslöv.

The same building and the church.

This jugend building belongs to Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan.

Lagerhuset is Eslöv’s only highrise. This picture doesn’t do it justice though, it is a pretty unusual red building, a former warehouse from 1918. It is Sweden’s tallest wooden highrise, 10 floors and 31 meter.

Eslövs kyrka is a neo gothic church from 1891, drawn by Carl Möller. It is the city’s tallest building.

Malmöhusen at Joel Sallius Park.

Easter decorations at a store in central Eslöv.

The old water tower from 1905 is situated a few quarters from the city center.

The countryside, but modern atrium of Sten Stensson Sten. The hotel is named after a role model from Eslöv.

An aquarium inside Hotel Stensson.

Hotel Stensson.

The railway station in HDR.

 

Hotel Sten Stensson Sten, the grand hotel from 1993, located at Stora Torg has unfortunately fallen a bit into decay. It is considered the nicest building in Eslöv and summertime there are fountains in front of the building. It has Eslöv’s largest nightclub.

Eslöv reminds a bit of small towns in America.

Medborgarhuset (municipal building) from 1957 by the famous architect Hans Asplund.

Stora Torg has no significant buildings except for the hotel where this photo is taken from.

The sculpture “Snäckfågel” (shell bird) by Eric Grate at Stora Torg.

Eslöv’s railway station from 1914. Eslöv is a real railway community.

A very nice municipal building that stand out in Eslöv.

The same building and the church.

This jugend building belongs to Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan.

Lagerhuset is Eslöv’s only highrise. This picture doesn’t do it justice though, it is a pretty unusual red building, a former warehouse from 1918. It is Sweden’s tallest wooden highrise, 10 floors and 31 meter.

Eslövs kyrka is a neo gothic church from 1891, drawn by Carl Möller. It is the city’s tallest building.

Malmöhusen at Joel Sallius Park.

Easter decorations at a store in central Eslöv.

The old water tower from 1905 is situated a few quarters from the city center.

The countryside, but modern atrium of Sten Stensson Sten. The hotel is named after a role model from Eslöv.

An aquarium inside Hotel Stensson.

Hotel Stensson.

The railway station in HDR.

Boring or not? You decide!