New Älvsborg
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New Älvsborg, so-called to distinguish it from the earlier fortress at Old Älvsborg, is a sea fort on the island of Kyrkogårdsholmen within the urban area of modern Gothenburg, Sweden. Situated near t
New Älvsborg from the west, with Gothenburg in the background.
Drawing from 1811 showing the fortress New Älvsborg.
Elfsburgum Novum, as seen from Stora Aspholmen in Erik Dahlbergh's Suecia Antiqua et Hodierna.
Tordenskjold's squadron sailing past Nya Älvsborg on the morning of 3 May 1717 after the repulse of his night attack on Nya Varvet. Painting by Jacob Hägg, Gothenburg Maritime Museum
Bohus Fortress
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Bohus Fortress lies in Kungälv, Bohuslän, Sweden, north east from Hisingen where the Göta river splits into two branches. It commands the surrounding area from a cliff 40 m high, with the river formin
New Älvsborg
…commercial settlement in the area was further upriver, at Lödöse, but this site was not ideal, as it lay upstream of the Danish-Norwegian fortress at Bohus, on the north bank of the river; thus in times of war the garrison there could disrupt river traffic between Lödöse and the sea. From the 1470s onwards…
Bohus Fortress
Bohus Fortress
Picture of model of Bohus Fortress, as it was before it was ceded to the Swedes
Panorama from the Bohus Fortress of the Göta river dividing into Göta river and Norder river (down right)