Bergsjön
Coordinates: 57°45′22″N 12°04′14″E / 57.75612°N 12.07068°E
Bergsjön is a district in eastern Gothenburg, Sweden. On January 1, 2011, Bergsjön and Kortedala became the Eastern District of Gothenburg as part of a larger reorganization of the city of Gothenburg; the number of district councils was halved, to ten. Bergsjön, as part of Eastern District of Gothenburg, is divided into two smaller areas: Western and Eastern Bergsjön. In Eastern Bergsjön construction and development in the area began in 1965, and in Western Bergsjön development started in 1967.
According to Göteborgsbladet 2010 (in which data for district councils and areas in Gothenburg are presented, West Bergsjön has 7,239 inhabitants and East Bergsjön has 8,534 residents; Therefore, the district has 15,773 inhabitants. During the 1900s, a number of Sweden's new residents moved into Bergsjön; as of 2011, there are over 140 nationalities represented in the district.
'Bergsjön' literally translates to 'The Mountain Lake' and is named after the lake with the same name south of the district.
During the 17th century, the forests began to disappear; at that time, Gothenburg had a great need for wood. By the end of the 18th century, the forests were gone. The current spruce forest in Bergsjön was planted about 1910. In the late 19th and early 20th century, the first few houses were built in Bergsjön. The houses were simple, often with only one room, a fireplace and an earthen floor. Dykärr at Rymdtorget, Spakens on Björnväktarens Street and Gröna Vrån near Galileis Street are some of these houses.
The Gärdsås residential area began to develop during the 1920s, and are considered the first modern buildings in Bergsjön. Communications and services were poor, but low land prices made the area attractive to workers in the factories of Gamlestaden. The simpler residences disappeared when the construction of modern Bergsjön began, although one older home was inhabited until 1990: Gåselyckan, in the southern part of Bergsjövallen, which was built in 1916. The construction of modern Bergsjön began during the 1960s as a planned community. All streets and neighborhoods were given space-theme names; the 1960s were the Space Age, when satellites were launched to explore outer space. During the previous decade, the new suburbs were called “satellite cities” which surrounded the centre of a city. Housing consisted of rental apartments, condominiums, townhouses and villas.
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