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From Landskrona a visit may be paid to the Swedish island of Even,
about 5 Engl. 31. distant, with the church of St. Ibs (a corruption of
Jacobus), where the famous Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe once
possessed a chateau called Uranienborg and his subterranean observatory of
Stelleborg. Of these, however, there is now no trace. — Sailing-boat 4-5 kr.
At (593 Kil.) Ortofta the train crosses the Lödde. To the Tight
is the Sliparebaeken (‘Hill ol’ St. Liberius’), where the Danish kings
used to receive the homage of the province of Skåne. Charles XI.
defeated the Danes here in 1676.
601 Kil. (372 M.) Lund (*Stadshuset, Stor-Torg; Skandinavie;
Jernvägs-Hotellet; Lindstett, bookseller, Stor-Torg), a town with
15,000 inhab., and a place of very ancient origin, which
according to popular tradition was already a flourishing place at the
beginning of the Christian era. In the early annals of Sweden it is
said to have been a wealthy and fortified town in the 10th cent.,
and in 1048 the first bishop was appointed. In 1104 the
bishopric was erected into an archiepiscopal see, and the archbishop
became the primate of the whole of Scandinavia. Shortly afterwards
Lund was even styled the ‘capital of Denmark’, and was frequently
the residence of the kings. After many vicissitudes the prosperity
of the place gradually declined, and the last archbishop was
banished and popery abolished by Christian III. in 1536. In its
palmy days Lund is said to have had a population of 200,000
souls and to have contained 21 churches, besides several
monasteries, but after the expulsion of the archbishop the town lost
all its importance, and for upwards of a century was a mere
village. Its modern prosperity dates from the foundation of the
university by Charles XI. in 1668, but to this day it presents a
somewhat dull and rustic appearance, especially during the university
vacations. (Pian, see p. 393.)
The Lundagård, with the neighbouring Lilla Torg and
Tegnérs-Plats, are the chief centres of attraction. The beautiful trees
here form a pleasant feature of the place.
In the centre of the town rises the *Cathedhal (Pl. B, 3),
dedicated to St. Lawrence, -which on the whole is perhaps the finest
church in Scandinavia. It was consecrated by Archbishop Eskil
(p. 354) in 1145. It is a pure Romanesque edifice, with two towers
and a semicircular apse, resembling the famous Rhenish churches
of Laach, Andernach, Coblenz, and Boppard. The whole building
has been judiciously restored. The exterior, especially of the choir,
is elaborately adorned in a manner that recalls the Middle Rhenish
style of about 1150, and is probably to be referred to the period
after the conflagration of 1172. Around-arched colonnade runs
round the first story; above that on the line of the windows are
blind arcades, and above that again a low open colonnade.
The Interior, although only 210 ft. in length (108 ft. wide, 70 ft. high),
presents a handsome appearance owing to the breadth of theW. end, and
to the fact that the pavement rises in the middle P/2 ft. above its level
at the sides of the church (as in the Pantheon at Rome). Nine pillars on
each side separate the nave from the aisles. Seventeen steps ascend from
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