Hotel Borgen
The hotel Borgen ( colloquially also Allehandaborgen ) is a Swedish site Örebro riverside Svartån located building , which in 1891 in neo-Gothic style was built. Striking is the red brick building existing and round towers pierced facade , resembling a castle to remember, hence the name Swedish borrow . The architects responsible were Fritz Ulrich and Eduard Hallquisth .
history
The building was originally built for Örebro Sparbank and opened on September 1, 1892. In addition to bank rooms , it also contained apartments and a telegraph office. The son of the then bank director Claes Bergman , who later became Swedish writer Hjalmar Bergman , spent his childhood in one of these apartments.
From 1934 to 2013, the local newspaper Nerikes Allehanda was based in the building. The name Allehandaborgen comes from this time .
In 2014 Nordic Choice Hotels took over the building to furnish a hotel with 125 rooms. The opening took place in April 2016.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c story on the official website. Retrieved June 10, 2016 .
- ↑ "Hon blir vd i Borgen" (Swedish). In: Nerikes Allehanda . September 3, 2015, accessed June 10, 2016 .
Coordinates: 59 ° 16 ′ 27 " N , 15 ° 12 ′ 43" E