Biskopsgården
Coordinates: 57°42′47″N 11°53′31″E / 57.713°N 11.892°E
Biskopsgården is a district (stadsdelsnämndsområde) in Gothenburg Municipality, Sweden.
Today you can find the first trace of humans by the hillsides that was once beaches in an archipelago.
The border between Sweden and Norway went through Biskopsgården from the 13th century until 1658, when Bohuslän belonged to Sweden. One of the old yards, Biskopsgården, was used when the Bishop came to visit. Its area stretched up to the mountains over the current Biskopsgården, and it is from there that it got its name.
In 10 years an area along the tram rail was built for 25,000 people.
In the middle of the 1950s, an expansion of Biskopsgården was started. Around 1958, people, such as authors and professors, moved to Biskopsgården. After the labor migration on 1950s and 1960s, Biskopsgården acquired an immigrant character. The proportion of professionals was higher than average, as well as average earnings. During the 1980s and 1990s, Biskopsgården had changed and renewed. Today, Biskopsgården has improved due to reparation, as well as social and cultural investments. On January 1, 2011, Biskopsgården and Torslanda joined together and formed Western Hisingens district. In Gothenburg the number of district has been halved to ten.
Biskopsgården has approximately 12,750 dwellings. The majority of dwellings were constructed during the 1950's. In the spring of 2007, a program for new dwellings was approved by the building committee. To highlight the resident’s thoughts and ideas about where they could build new dwellings, a citizen group of 20 people was commissioned by the city-building office together with the district administration. Biskopsgården expected to receive a major injection of new homes in the near future. The famous architect Johan Berggren has said that Biskopsgården has potential to become the new role model, concerning new architecture.
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