Odenplan is a plaza located in the district

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in central

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History

Odenplan was named after the old

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god

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. Odenplan metro station, opened in 1952, and Stockholm Odenplan commuter train station on the

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, opened in 2017, are located here. Odenplan was portrayed in the 1976 thriller film ''

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'', in which a helicopter crashes in the plaza. It also appears in the opening credits to the 1999 film ''

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''.

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and Gustaf Vasa Church (''Gustaf Vasa kyrka'') are located nearby.

References

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