A0049016 Byggnad 16, Idrottsgymnasiet

General information

This building houses Stockholm's Sports Gymnasium, which was founded in 2007. The school accommodates everything from exercisers to elite young people in many different sports.

Previously, this building belonged to what was then called the Stockholm Epidemic Hospital. On March 28, 1890, the City Council decided to build this hospital high up on Albanokullen. It is an isolated location and therefore suited the purpose.
The building was designed by the architect Per Emanuel Werming.

For a long time, the hospital received people suffering from infectious, epidemic diseases such as smallpox, typhus and cholera, and from the 1980s it also treated the first AIDS patients in the country.

In 1966, Stockholm's epidemic hospital became Roslagstull's hospital, which was closed in 1992.