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Rottneros

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The name "Rottneros" comes from the old words "ROTN" = roaring and "OS" = fall. Toghether it means the roaring water fall. In the area you can find tracks from the Iron Age and east of the lake there are some graves from the Bronze Age. During the great ironmaster Gustaf Adolf Walls, the estake got it´s shape and this was kept until the big fire 1929. The estate was model to "Ekeby" and Selma Lagerlöfs "Gösta Berlings Story". After the big iron works crises, the iron industry had come to an end. Hampus Edvard Montgomery began the production of paper in 1887. He bought the estate including property and house.

The Lucia night in 1929 the house burnt down and just a bucket full of sausages and some chairs were saved. The two arcitects for the park was Edvard Jacobsson and Sven Hermelin. In the end the arcitect Per Evert Taube designed the pavilion in the south end of The Kings garden, and the arcitect Göran Lindell designed Rottneros hallen.

Rottneros Park

Rottneros Park -"Ekeby" of the story of Gösta Berling - is one of the most famous places of interest in Värmland.
The 99 acre floral park with herb garden, rose garden, arboretum and around 100 classical and scandinavian sculptures is unique in Northern Europe.
The park is also designed to accommodate the physically handicapped and those with impaired sight and hearing.
In the park you can also see wolves - the animal symbolising Värmland, and lyny, Sweden´s only native wild feline, in a natural setting. There is also a terrarium with Swedish and tropcal fish, amphibians,repiles and small mammals. For children there is a minizoo with dwarf goats, little pigs, rabbits and much more.
Restaurant and cafe in a unique setting with views over the parklake, the flowers display and the sculptures on Grateplatsen.
Rottneros Park lies in Fryksdalen a few km from Sunne in the heard of Värmland.

Childrens zoo and the tropic house

In the childrens zoo you can find exciteing things for both children and parents.

The peacock´s are walking around in the whole park, but in the Childrens zoo there are pigs, donkeys, rabbits, different sorts of hens, goats, prariedogs and other small animals.
Sometimes there are shows with the parrot-circus, where you can see aror´s (=birds) that rides bicycles.

Not far away is the tropic house.
There are some tropic birds, crocodiles, spiders, frogs, snakes and scorpions. In the tropic house there are some different sort of monkeys.