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River Baths by the Hisingbro (Pi. G, 1). Warm Baths in the Renströmska
Badanstall (PI. 25; F, 2).
English Church in the Rosenlundsgata (reached by the Ekelundsgata
from the W. end of the S. Hamngata).
Favourite Resorts. Trädgårdsföreningen (p. 286; music in the
evening), adm. 10 Ö.; Lorensberg (Pl. H, 4), with a bust of Wadman, the poet,
by Alolin, adm. 25 ö.; Slottsskogs-Park, p.287. A Sunday ‘Lusttur’ to the
’■Skjære’ (Lysekil, p. 283) is interesting for the view it affords of the
pleasures of the people; comp, the newspapers for Saturday.
Gothenburg (57° 42’ N. lat.), Swed. Göteborg (pron. Yoteborg),
a busy and prosperous commercial city, with 90,000 inhab., lies
on the Götaelf, about 5 Engl. <M. from its mouth, and possesses
an excellent harbour, whieh is rarely closed by ice. The wide
plain surrounding the town, though diversified with a few barren
gneiss hills, is unattractive. The town itself presents a remarkably
handsome and pleasing appearance, for which it is largely indebted
to the enterprise and public spirit of the wealthier inhabitants. The
suburbs of Gullbergs Bass and Stampen to the E., Haga.
Albostaden, and Annedal to the S. and S.W., and Masthugget, Majorna,
and Nya Yarfvet to the W. now’ form part of the towrn.
Gothenburg is quite a modern place, having been founded in
1619, and it is to the Dutch settlers of that period (including the
wealthy Abraham Cabeliou) that it owes the peculiar form of its
streets and canals. The first great impulse to its commerce was
given by the great continental blockade (1806), during w’hich it
formed the chief depot of the English trade with the north of
Europe. The principal foreign merchants now resident here are
Scottish and German. The principal manufactures are cotton,
machinery, and sugar. The numerous breweries and the
ship-building wharfs are also conspicuous features.
The business-centre of the town , about equidistant (8 min.)
from the railway-station and the principal steainboat-quay, is the
Gustaf-Adolfs-Torg (Pl. G, 2), on the N. side of which rises the
Börs (PI. 14), or Exchange, the finest edifice in Gothenburg,
erected in the Renaissance style in 1849, and embellished with
twelve east-iron columns in front. To the W. of it is the Badhus
(PI. 24), or Town Hall, designed by Aic. Tessin, and built in
1670, but afterwards considerably altered. Behind it rises the
German Christina-Kyrka (PI. 8). The centre of the Torg is
embellished with a Statue of Gustavus Adolphus (PI. 16), the founder
of Gothenburg, designed by Fogelberg. This was the second
statue cast from the same model. The first was wrecked when on
its way from Hamburg to Gothenburg, and was recovered by
sailors of Heligoland, who claimed so exorbitant a sum for salvage
that the Gothenburgers refused to pay it, and preferred ordering
the statue to be executed anew (1854). The original statue now
adorns the Doinsheide at Bremen.
At the S.E. angle of the Torg is the junction of the
Stora-Hamn-Kanal and the Gstra-Hamn-Kanal. the two most important
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