Annedal is a

district A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...

Gothenburg Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ...

, Sweden, which falls with the

borough A borough is an administrative division in various English language, English-speaking countries. In principle, the term ''borough'' designates a self-governing walled town, although in practice, official use of the term varies widely. History ...

of Linnéstaden. It is older traditional working class district. Much of the original housing was demolished in the late 1960s and early 1970s for the construction of modern housing estates. The

Annedal Church The Annedal Church () is a church building in Annedal in Gothenburg, Sweden. Belonging to the Gothenburg Annedal Parish of the Church of Sweden, construction begun in 1908 and the church was opened on Thanksgiving Day Thanksgiving is a nati ...

, established in 1910, is located there. The first

Landshövdingehus The landshövdingehus (; English: "landshövding, governor house") is a type of building unique to Gothenburg, Sweden. City bylaws in the 19th century ruled that houses made of wood could be a maximum of two storeys high in order to prote ...

was built in Annedal. People from Annedal include: *

Christina Lindberg Britt Christina Marinette Lindberg (born 6 December 1950) is a Swedish journalist known internationally for her work as an erotic actress and glamour model in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Biography Lindberg grew up in a working-class home i ...

Bertil Envall Bertil Envall (29 October 1909, Annedal, Gothenburg - 23 November 2011, Backa, Gothenburg) was a Swedes, Swedish Lutheran missionary and bishop emeritus of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Malaysia. He was the son of a business manager, Gustaf ...

* Arvid E. Gillstrom *

Olle Åkerlund Olle Erik Cyrus Åkerlund (28 September 1911 – 4 February 1978) was a Swedish sailor. He was a crew member of the Swedish boat ''Bissbi'' that won the gold medal in the 6 m class at the 1932 Summer Olympics The 1932 Summer Olympics (offic ...

Bengt Rasin Rear Admiral Bengt Göran Rasin, né ''Larsson'' (17 April 1922 – 2 January 2013) was a Swedish Navy officer. His senior commands include Commander-in-Chief of the Coastal Fleet, commanding officer of the West Coast Military Command and comman ...

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