Lorensberg

Swedish

Etymology

Compound of Lorens +‎ berg, literally “Lorens's Hill”, from Lorensberg Estate, named after trader Lorens Petersén who owned the estate 1770–1800.[1]

Proper noun

Lorensberg ? (genitive Lorensbergs)

  1. a district in Gothenburg, Sweden

References

  1. ^ Svenskt ortnamnslexikon (2016), Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore and Uppsala University Department of Scandinavian Languages
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