Rosenbom, Memorial statue in front of Admiralty Church, Karlskrona, Sweden

Rosenbom is a wooden memorial figure standing in front of the Admiralty Church in Karlskrona that portrays an elderly man holding a placard. The statue serves as a donation box where visitors can insert coins by lifting the figure's hat.

The oldest reliable mention of the figure dates from 1793; it may have been carved by Finnish carpenters at the Karlskrona naval yard, though other sources name admiralty carver Johan Törnström. The original was moved inside the church in 1956 and replaced outside by a teak copy by self-taught carver Karl Karlsson, known as Hästö-Kalle.

The figure appears in Selma Lagerlöf's The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, but the book has him serving on the ship Den Dristige, launched in 1785, long after the historical Rosenbom's death. The name is rendered Rusenbum in the Russian translations by Lyudmila Braude and Sergey Stern, and Rosenbom in the 1955 animated film The Enchanted Boy.

The placard displays Swedish text that references biblical passages about helping those in need. You can approach and examine the figure at any time as it stands permanently outside the church.

The figure is a fattigbubbe, a wooden poor-box statue type found in 18th-century Finland, and the oldest certain mention of it dates only from 1793. A popular legend instead names a carver Kolbe and ties the statue to a real sailor, Mats Hindriksson Rosenbom, from Åland, who settled in Karlskrona in 1679 and had reached the rank of konstapel by 1689.