Lilla Bommen

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Lilla Bommen in January 2009
Lilla Bommen in January 2008 with the four-masted barque Viking , the Götaälvbron bridge and the Skanskaskrapan high-rise in the background

Lilla Bommen ( German  "Kleiner Schlagbaum" ) is a port area around the guest harbor on the Göta älv river north of Gothenburg's old town. The year-round open guest harbor is operated by the municipal company Liseberg AB and offers space for around 100 yachts . On the west side of the port is the Gothenburg Opera House , completed in 1994 , on the east side is the Skanskaskrapan high-rise office building, built in 1989, and the four-masted barque Viking on the quay .

history

The port was built in the 1640s and was located between the two fortresses Gustavs Primus (at today's opera) and S: tus Ericus (at today's Skanskaskrapan office building). The two ports of Lilla Bommen and Stora Bommen (“Big Barrier”) were named after the barriers that blocked the waterway for incoming and outgoing boats so that customs could be levied for the Swedish crown.

When the harbor basin for boat traffic was completed in 1860, the quay was 525 meters long and the basin was 3.5 meters deep. Lilla Bommen quickly developed into Gothenburg's most important port for canal and inland traffic through Sweden, from which barges and passenger ships sailed through the Göta älv and the Göta Canal via the central Swedish lakes to Norrköping and Stockholm . For the canal boats, a landing stage and a station were set up on a new quay in 1872.

Stadstjänareholmen (German about " islet of the municipal servants") was an area at Lilla Bommen, which was outside the moat and was leased by the carpenter Nicolaus Hultman (1762-1819). The area was renamed Hultmans holme after him after the last part of the northern moat was filled in in the 1870s.

To the east of the port area is Lilla Bommens torg , the name of which was established in 1883. The place was created by filling in the moat at the level of the Fattighusån canal up to Lilla Bommen, creating a larger land-based area northeast of the port.

In 1899 a station building was built at Lilla Bommen, which was the terminus for the railway line to Västergötland .

There used to be the Östra Hamnkanalen (German: "Osthafenkanal"), a canal that stretched from Lilla Bommen past the eastern port gates ( Swedish Östra Hamngatorna ) to the central square of Brunnsparken . A wide bridge, the Lilla Bommens Bro , crossed this canal at the mouth of the port and connected the marketplaces of Kanaltorget and St. Eriks Torg . When the canal was filled in in 1936, the bridge, over which the railway ran, also disappeared.

Ship accident of the Göta Elf

Salvage of the Göta Elf on April 15, 1908

On April 15, 1908, the steamer Göta Elf capsized and sank in the harbor basin, along with passengers and goods. More than twenty people were killed in the accident, which led to a great deal of sympathy in the Swedish press at the time.

Götabåten

In the course of the excavations in St. Eriksgatan and the construction of the Göta tunnel , a boat wreck came to light in July 2001 that dates from around the middle of the 17th century. The boat, known as Götabåten , was buried in a three-meter-thick layer of filling compound, which was at a depth of 60 cm below the current bottom of the river. A ten by three meter coherent hull remained from the wreck , consisting of a keel , stern post and parts of the hull . The originally twelve meter long boat was mainly made of oak and pine.

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  6. ^ JH Karlsson: Gullbergsvass - Hultmans Holme: Stadsdelshistoria . Föreningen Gamla Holmepojkar, Göteborg 1951, p. 43-46 (Swedish).
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  9. ↑ Bengt A. Öhnander: Göteborgs kanaler och broar berättar . Tre Böcker Förlag AB, Göteborg 2007, ISBN 978-91-7029-630-7 (Swedish).
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  11. ↑ Carina Bramstång: Fästningen Gothenburg - samlingar till Staden arkeologi . Riksantikvarieämbetet, Göteborg 2006, ISBN 91-7209-418-4 (Swedish).

Coordinates: 57 ° 42 ′ 43 ″  N , 11 ° 58 ′ 3 ″  E