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Very often I visit cemeteries. I think it’s relaxing and exciting, especially when it comes to looking at the inscriptions on the tombstones.
Last Saturday it was time for a new visit to the cemetery. My friend Pyttan and I spent the weekend in Trosa and took an excursion to Västerljung, a few kilometers away. She had read a book about Countess Wilhelmina von Hallwyl and it said that she and her husband Walther were resting in the Västerljung cemetery.
As I am fascinated by the palace of the earl couple in Hamngatan, I wanted to see the tomb, which should be something like a horse, considering the palace.
Pyttan was in the notes, so we braved the rain and debris and set off.
When we park the car We found that it probably wouldn’t be a problem to find the grave because the cemetery isn’t that big. It is true that it is divided into two sections, but the tombs are not that many, so it should be quick to find the Hallwyl stone.
– We are aiming for the big rocks, I said when we started hunting. Since it was raining, we decided to search from different directions.
I started with the tombstones next to the church, which were much larger than most, but there was another noble family: Nordenskiöld. The most magnificent of these was the stone on Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832-1901). He was an explorer and is best known for passing the Northeast Passage with the three-masted bark S / S Vega 1878–1880. But no tombstones larger than these could be found. Had I read that wrong?
The rain increased, but why I’m a weird kind of stubborn, I didn’t want to leave the cemetery with an unresolved issue.
Now there is something called googla so I did it and judged my surprise when I saw the photo. Was this really a grave?
– The pyramid of Cheops in miniature, exclaimed Pyttan and estimated the height at seven meters.
Here they rest not only the couple of the count, but also his daughter Elma, who died of poisoning the day before Christmas Eve 1871 and the companion of Countess Ida Uhse.
The pyramid is located in an area the size of a handball court, so how could we miss it?
He should have understood that Wilhelmina von Hallwyl would do her best not only in this life, but also in the next!
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