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)

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UNESCO removes Dresden of World Heritage site title

Dresden no longer in the UNESCO’s World Heritage site

In thursday, Dresden Elbe Valley was removed as a U.N. World Heritage site. It is the the second landmark that has been removed from the list ever. The reason was that a four-lane motorway bridge was built over the river.

Read more at UNESCO’s website

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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.

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Henrik