place

Karl Johansslussen

Buildings and structures in StockholmCharles XIV JohnLocks of SwedenNorrström basin
Slussen 2009dd
Slussen 2009dd

Karl Johanslussen ("Lock of Charles John") is a lock and a sluice, along the Söderström river connecting and controlling the flood discharge between Riddarfjärden, the easternmost part of Lake Mälaren, and Saltsjön, the section of the Baltic Sea reaching into central Stockholm, Sweden. The lock is 75 metres long, 10 metres wide and 3.90 metres deep. The maximum height is 3.8 metres. The lock is closed from 2016 to 2021 due to large reconstruction works in the area. Before World War I, few of the steam ships in the harbor of Stockholm were larger than 500 tonnes, and the previous lock thus largely sufficient. While commercial traffic was relocated to Hammarbyleden passing south of Södermalm in 1926–1929, the present lock, completed in 1935, was still used by some 3,000 commercial vessels in the 1970s, and log rafts passed through the canal until the 1950s. Its main function is however to allow passage for pleasure boats and sightseeing boats.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Karl Johansslussen (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Karl Johansslussen
Munkbroleden, Stockholm Gamla stan (Södermalms stadsdelsområde)

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Karl JohansslussenContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 59.321388888889 ° E 18.072777777778 °
placeShow on map

Address

Munkbroleden

Munkbroleden
111 29 Stockholm, Gamla stan (Södermalms stadsdelsområde)
Sweden
mapOpen on Google Maps

Slussen 2009dd
Slussen 2009dd
Share experience

Nearby Places

Södra Bankohuset
Södra Bankohuset

Södra Bankohuset (Swedish: "The Southern [National] Bank Building"[1]) or Gamla Riksbanken ("The Old National Bank") is a building in Gamla stan, the old town of Stockholm, Sweden, together with Norra Bankohuset the location of the Bank of Sweden until 1906. Since December 2018, the building is housing Embark Studios, a Stockholm-based games studio.It is facing the square Järntorget on its west side and Skeppsbron on its east, while two alleys passes north and south of it, Norra Bankogränd and Södra Bankogränd. The western quarter of the building including the façade, built in 1675-1682, was designed by Nicodemus Tessin the Elder (1615–1684); the western court and its two wings were built in 1694-1712 under the son of the latter, Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (1654–1728); while the eastern half and façade were designed by Carl Hårleman (1700–1753) and built during the period 1733-1737.Coherently designed as elongated block-size palace, Södra Bankohuset unites the prestigious line-up along Skeppsbron with the narrow urban conglomeration of the old town. The plain architraves and original Renaissance design of the western façade is repeated around the building, and is in the eastern façade supplemented with pediments, channelled rustication up to the mezzanine, and a rocaille over the entrance pouring out bank notes and coins. The western portal is a quotation of Vignola's portal at Villa Farnese in Caprarola.