Meme (place)

Castle Mem

Mem is a place ( Småort ) in the Swedish municipality of Norrköping , which belongs to the province of Östergötland County .

Mem is best known for its Mem Castle and for the end of the Göta Canal with the transition to the Baltic Sea . The last lock before Slätbaken , a narrow sound in the Baltic Sea, is in Mem . Mem has a good 50 inhabitants. The inauguration of the Göta Canal took place in Mem on September 26th, 1832 in the presence of Sweden's King Karl XIV. Johann .

Sluice of mem

The Mem lock has a drop height of 3 meters and is named after Bengt Erland Franc Sparre . It was built in 1832.

Attractions

• Castle Mem
• Lighthouse mem
• Lock of the Göta Canal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Göta Canal history gotakanal.se
2. ^ Abroad: Wochenschrift für Länder- und Völkerkunde, Volume 15, 1842, Cotta, Page 889 limited preview in the Google book search
3. ↑ Monika Stangel Löfvall: Söderköping och Göta kanal , 2017, Söderköping commun [1]

Coordinates: 58 ° 28 ′ 48 ″  N , 16 ° 24 ′ 57 ″  E