Bohus Fortress in Sweden

Bohus fortress

The medieval fortress at the town of Kungälv, Sweden

Bohus Fästning (”The fortress of Bohus”, originally Bagahus) is situated at the former Swedish / Norwegian border. It was Haakon V Magnuson, the king of Norway (between 1299-1319) who gave the construction order. He also initiated the construction of Akershus in Oslo, Norway. At this time, Bohuslän (where Kungälv is situated), belonged to Norway.

Bohus fortress was invested 14 times and badly damaged, but not once taken. At one point, the border was moved north and the fortress was to no-use to Sweden anymore. Then the norweigans built Fredriksten fortress.

Photo galler of Bohus Fästning (Bohus Fortress)

Going to Estonia

Estonia

- the little country that I love

At last! I’m going back to Estonia in a short while. Hopefully I will be able to drive around and take some pictures. I’d love to go to Narva. The thing is that I thought the coolest part of the fortress there was on the russian side of the border, but I just got the wonderful info that it is in Estonia!

I’m still working on the new design for remains.se, but so far I haven’t come up with anything new. Next step is to upload ALL remaining photos I’ve got, it’s about 5000+ pictures! Gulp.

Well, stay tuned!

Hello world of remains!

Welcome to the remains blog.

Here I will write a short description of my road trips to different historical places, where I take a lot of photos and enjoy the most often beautiful environments. I´m not a professional photographer, but I´m doing as good as I can, to show you how nice those leftovers are. You can read anything about castles and, castles medieval times, medieval castles history, middle ages architecture and other.

Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions! And be sure to visit the “main page”; http://www.remains.se

Kind regards,
Henrik