Episodes 29 to 32 look at the so-called hotel area in district Inom Vallgraven. Four hotels or ghosts of hotels, old, new and so new they haven’t been built yet. There is also a vivid reminder that devastating fires are not a thing of the past.
Episode 29: kv Göta Källare
District: Inom Vallgraven, from Vallgraven to Östra Hamngatan
Photo date: 17 November 2019
A very short video for a tiny block consisting of just one building. Until 1873 the water-mill-cum-lock could be said to belong to it too. In the 1920s, the hotel was bought by the Swedish America Line for offices and the four sculptures around the main entrance were added. The artist was Johan Axel Wetterlund.
Episode 30: kv Sockerbruket and Brunnsparken
District: Inom Vallgraven, from Vallgraven to Östra Hamngatan
Photo date: 1 May and 12 July 2020
In the very centre of the fortress-city were two small islands in the Main Canal. On one of them was built a sugar factory and a bakery and on the other a weighing apparatus for iron (järnvåg) and later a park and a spa. A fountain with a naked girl was put up in 1883, right on the spot of the old iron-scales. The scales were moved to Pustervik in 1802 or thereabouts and were dismantled 90 years later. The memory lingers in names like Järntorget and Järnvågsbron.
Episode 31: kv Slusskvarnen
District: Inom Vallgraven, from Vallgraven to Östra Hamngatan
Photo date: 1 May 2020
Several hotels were established in this area when the railway opened and when the mass-emigration to America started in the mid-1800s. The hotel in this block, built in the colourful 1980s, is a replacement for a previous hotel in the block just to the west. August Krüger’s fine end-piece makes a splendid view from across the moat.
Episode 32: kv Härbärget
District: Inom Vallgraven, from Vallgraven to Östra Hamngatan
Photo date: 3 May 2020
Well, here I ramble on at length about all the decorations on this 50-year-old house — which is currently being very slowly demolished. The corner at Fredsgatan-Drottninggatan has been a vacant lot for some months now. It’s a bit like the city was like 50 years ago. I wonder what will rise up instead, another Tower of Sauron?
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