Helsingkrona Nation, Student nation in Lund, Sweden
Helsingkrona Nation is one of Lund University's thirteen student nations, with its club space and offices in Helsingkronagården on Tornavägen. The complex has three housing estates: Huset, a light grey block with a dark-panelled tower at its left end, Tornet, a 13-floor residential tower completed in 2015, and Villan, opened in 2024. Together they house 419 students.
Helsingkrona began as part of Skånska Nationen, a Scanian student nation existing from 1682. In 1833 that nation split into five parts, Helsingkrona among them; the five survive as the Scanian Nations' Joint Committee, which still awards grants and holds the Gåsafesten every five years. The 1891 coat of arms merged those of Helsingborg and Landskrona.
The nation's spex ensemble, Helsingkronaspexet, is among Lund's oldest active nation spexes. Two famous Swedish spexes came from members: Uarda, written in 1908 by Hilding Kefas Neander and Ludvig Thet gambla Ramberg, and Djingis Khan, written in 1954 by Hans Alfredson and Patrick Meurling, later the nation's Inspektor. The annual Snörsjöabalen ball is held the first weekend of October, named after a Markaryd bog donated in the 1940s by Emmy Ekberg; its order insignia show maps of the bog.
Helsingkronagården stands on Tornavägen beside the LTH premises; the black fence marked "SINGKRONA" identifies the site. The House holds a club area and an unaffiliated pizzeria on its ground floor, while the Tower has a salad bar and the study room Insikten, open to nation residents. The Villa's ground floor houses an external lunch restaurant.
The Tower contains a conference room on its top floor offering views across the city, toward Malmö, and to the Öresund Bridge. This vantage point reveals how the location connects Lund to the broader region and across to Denmark.
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