Torstenson Palace

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Torstenson Palace
Torstensonska Palatset
Riksantikvarieämbetet
.

57°42′21″N 11°57′35″E / 57.70583°N 11.95972°E / 57.70583; 11.95972

The Torstenson Palace is a building on Södra Hamngatan in

landshövding of Västra Götaland County.[2]

The building was originally constructed in the years 1648–1650 for Count

landshövding of Gothenburg and Bohus County, and has remained the seat of the county administration ever since, and of the wider Västra Götaland County since its creation in 1998.[6] The first landshövding to reside at the palace was Erik Carlsson Sjöblad
.

The palace is Gothenburg's oldest residential building, and has been recognised as a byggnadsminne (listed building) since 25 January 1935.[7][8] The building's most famous role in recent years was as the venue for the 2001 meeting of the European Council.[9]

History

General Count

ducats; the plot measured 288 feet along the street and 125 feet deep on the west side. Torstensson hired Casper Wolter, a German builder living in Stockholm, to construct a house on the plot, and the work was completed within two years. The house itself, including the wing building, had ten rooms and two halls, with an area of 275 square metres on each floor.[10]

Karl X Gustav
's death in the Torstenson Palace, 13 February 1660.

Torstensson died on 7 April 1651 in Stockholm, and six years later King

Karl X Gustav purchased the count's newly completed Gothenburg palace from his widow, Countess Beata de la Gardie.[4] The Torstenson Palace thus became the king's residence in Gothenburg, and indeed it was at the palace that Karl Gustav died, on 13 February 1660 at the age of 37.[11] His son and namesake Karl XI lived at the Torstenson Palace while residing in Gothenburg during the years 1680–1683, 1689–1691 och 1694.[12]

On 9 May 1700 the seat of the

Danish-Norwegian army in 1788, during the Theatre War.[12]

The Torstenson Palace remained the seat of the county administration of Gothenburg and Bohus County throughout these upheavals and over the following two centuries. After Gothenburg and Bohus was merged with Skaraborg County and Älvsborg County to form Västra Götaland County in 1998, the Palace became the seat of the county administration of the new, larger unit.[6]

The Torstenson Palace has been remodelled and rebuilt several times in its history, most notably in 1875, when the house's area increased from just under 700 square meters to 1800 square meters.

stables and outbuildings, several of which had to be replaced altogether.[14]

The Torstenson Palace shares a large courtyard space with the properties Södra Hamnatan 3 and Stora Badhusgatan 2.,[15] and has given its name to the Residence Bridge, (Swedish: Residensbron) which was completed in 1963 and crosses the harbour canal at Stora Bommen.[16]

References

  1. ^ Residenset, map from Lantmäteriet.
  2. ^ Residenset Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine, Länsstyrelsen i Västra Götaland.
  3. ISBN 91-86050-67-2
    s. 35
  4. ^ a b Bæckström (1923), p. 80.
  5. ISBN 91-85786-13-6
    ., pp. 26-27.
  6. ^ a b c Göteborg under 300 år, Carl Lagerberg & Otto Thulin, Medéns Bokhandels AB, Wald. Zachrissons Boktryckeri, Göteborg 1923 p. 31.
  7. Riksantikvarieämbetet
    .
  8. ^ Kulturhistoriskt värdefull bebyggelse i Göteborg : inventering utförd vid Byggnadsminneskontoret, Göteborgs historiska museum 1970 (?), p. 15.
  9. ^ "Presidency conclusions" (PDF). consilium.europa.eu. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  10. ^ Clemensson & Kjellberg (1933), pp.25–26
  11. ^ Kronologiska anteckningar om viktigare händelser i Göteborg 1619–1982, A. Rundqvist/R. Scander/A. Bothén 1982 pp.6–7
  12. ^ a b Nyström (1984), p.35.
  13. ^ Nyström (1984), p.32
  14. ^ Lönnroth (2003), p. 383.
  15. ISBN 91-89088-12-3
    p. 382.
  16. ^ Gothenburg Harbor Board – annual report 1963, p. 11

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