The Story of the Locus Peccatorum Murder in Lund

“I will walk around until midnight. I am going to walk myself tired so that I can sleep”. This is what Jacob Wilhelm Blomdahl tells a classmate that he happens to run into on the street late one night in September of 1829. Little does that classmate know that this night will end in tragedy.The story of Locus Peccatorum begins when two students arrive from the Gothenburg area to study at Lund University in 1825. Four years later, a murder has been committed and the student body organization has been forever changed. Do you want to know more about what happened? Step into the story and travel back in time for a walk through Lund as it was two hundred years ago.The self-guided audio tour ”Locus Peccatorum – House of Sins” invites you to explore the central parts of Lund together with Malin, a criminology student at the university.Once she started reading about the 1829 murder, she couldn’t let it go. Instead, she started digging through university and trial protocols as well as local history books, to find more information about the tragic event.Malin is your digital guide on this tour, listen to her tell the true story of what happened while you follow her to the locations in Lund that are central to the story.Through the StoryTourist app, you will be able to interact with photographs and excerpts of original documents that are hundreds of years old. The app will show you what the city used to look like and what the lives of the people involved were like. Slowly but surely, the story of theology students Andreas Emanuel Landén and Jacob Wilhelm Blomdahl will be brought to light.Malin will tell you all about how a local washerwoman was the one who uncovered who both the murder victim and the perpetrator were, and how the laws at the time demanded that it would be the university staff who acted as both jury and judges in the upcoming murder trial.The only thing you need to be able to step into the story of Locus Peccatorum – House of Sins is a smartphone with headphones. Travel back in time and experience Lund in a brand-new way with us!- To be able to experience this city walk, you must be on-site at the tour's starting point on Stortorget in Lund. - The tour is in Swedish. - This city walk is pet-friendly. Public transport is available near the city walk's start and endpoints. - If you have a hearing impairment, it is possible to read the story instead of listening to it. - Once you have made the purchase of this city walk, please check your email, including spam, for login information. It is important that you log in to the app using the password generated by StoryTourist, to ensure that the city walk you purchased is stored in your StoryTourist account.