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Djurgården is a city district between
Garnisonen Garnisonen ("Garrison") is a city district ...
and Lambohov in
Linköping Linköping ( , ) is a city in southern Sweden, with around 167,000 inhabitants as of 2024. It is the seat of Linköping Municipality and the capital of Östergötland County. Linköping is also the episcopal see of the Diocese of Linköping (Chu ...
, which is the process of being developed. It is meant to contain 3 000-5 000 housing units, 200,000 to 300,000 square metres of office space and 30,000 square metres of commerce. Construction start for Djurgårdens centre, the first area in the district, is estimated to be in 2011. The name Djurgården originates from 1606 when it was a royal hunting park with deer and fallow deer. It was John III's and
Gunilla Bielke Gunilla Bielke; Swedish: ''Gunilla Johansdotter Bielke af Åkerö'' (25 June 1568 – 19 July 1597) was Queen of Sweden as the second wife of King John III. Queen Gunilla is acknowledged to have acted as the political adviser to John III and to ...
's son Duke John of Östergötland who had it built. Djurgården was expanded in 1616 and was in operation until the early 1700s, when the live deer were transported by sled to the then new
Djurgården Djurgården ( or ) or, more officially, , is an island in central Stockholm, Sweden. Djurgården is home to historical buildings and monuments, museums, galleries, the amusement park Gröna Lund, the open-air museum Skansen, the small resident ...
in
Stockholm Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ...
, that Charles XI had built. During the 1700s and 1800s, the area was put to the disposal to the county governors as part of their compensation. The area was at that time a popular destination for residents of Linköping. Since then Djurgården has been used as a military training area until the Linköping regiments closed in 1997. {{DEFAULTSORT:Djurgarden, Linkoping Geography of Linköping