Stromma Malmö

22/09/2024

28/06/2024

Nu är det mindre än en vecka till Rundans Pride-tur!! Säkerställ din plats med att köpa din biljett redan nu på vår hemsida!

12/06/2024

Under Malmö Pride kommer Rundan anordna en specialskriven guidad tur om Malmös gueera historia. En del av Malmös historia som ofta glöms eller göms bort.

Guidningen är skriven och hålls av Nicole Voigt som är en av våra guider men också sexualupplysare och snart färdigutbildad sociolog som fokuserat på sexualitet och relationer.

Turen börjar och avslutas vid Rundan och biljetter köps via biljettlänken på vår sida eller direkt hos Rundan på Norra Vallgatan 60.

06/06/2024

Today is Sweden's national day, but when did Skåne and Malmö become Swedish?

Skåne was first mentioned in written sources in AD 811. and was from at least the 9th century a part of Denmark. Skåne was for centuries one of Denmark's most important political, cultural and economic regions. Among other things, Skåne gave the Danish kings control over the entrance to the Baltic Sea and the landscape was the seat of the archbishops of Lund, who at their height had religious supremacy over all of Christian Scandinavia.
Skåne was conquered by Sweden in 1658 during Karl X Gustav's First Danish War. After the conquest, especially under Karl XI (1660–1697), an extensive swedishization of Scania was carried out. Repeated Danish attempts to regain Scania and the other Scanian lands, including the Scanian War (1675–1679) and the Danish campaign in Scania and Blekinge in 1709–1710, were repulsed. Skåne was integrated into Sweden and recovered from war and destruction during the 18th and 19th centuries. Relatively early in the 19th century, industrialization took off in Scania.

Today Skåne is the second most populous region in Sweden (after Uppland). Since the 19th century, Skåne has been distinguished by its agriculture. Today, the landscape accounts for as much as 40% of Sweden's harvest of the most common cereals, crops, potatoes and sugar beets, as well as for almost 70% of the country's harvest of garden plants

(statue of Karl X Gustav)



📸: Nicole Voigt

05/06/2024

Malmö Konsthall

Malmö Art Gallery is an art gallery in central Malmö. It has about ten exhibitions and around 200,000 visitors every year. Malmö Konsthall was inaugurated on March 22, 1975, with an extensive exhibition of Edvard Munch.

Malmö Art Gallery has exhibitions of both international and national art, from the classics of modern art to current experiments. They also carry out peripheral events bordering on other art forms, organize lectures and debates and carry out educational activities aimed at both children and adults

Malmö art gallery, inaugurated in 1975, was designed by Klas Anshelm. It is considered one of his most important works and received the Kasper Salin Prize in 1974. The exhibition area of ​​2,000 m2 is characterised by great flexibility and light.

In connection with renovation in 1994, the art gallery was expanded through a merger with premises in the adjacent brick building, the so-called Hantverkshuset



📸: Nicole Voigt

04/06/2024

Amiralen

The largest dance palace in the Nordics, the Admiral, opened its doors with pomp and circumstance on Boxing Day 1939.

Opened Christmas 1939
Danspalatset Amiralen opened its doors on Boxing Day 1939 to the tunes of trumpeter Allan Wollter and his 12-man orchestra. With a restaurant and space for 1,400 seated guests and an approx. 800 square meter dance floor made of oak parquet, it was the largest dance palace in the Nordics when it opened. In January 1940, the Amiralen Cinema, now Nöjesteatern, was also inaugurated next to the dance palace.

Appreciated new addition to Malmö's entertainment scene
The Admiral Dance Palace was a valued new addition to Malmö's entertainment scene at the time and was a vital part of Folkets Park, not least during the summer months when the glass wall was removed and people took a turn to the big band in return for the delivery of dance tickets.

The Admiral is particularly strongly associated with Harry Arnold, whose orchestra played there in 1942–49 and 1952–54. For Folkets Park and the Admiralty, the 1940s and early 1950s were very successful years, with 1947 setting an absolute record in terms of visitor numbers. Many great and popular artists have been on stage over the years.

Architecture
The admiral was designed by Malmö architect Carl-Axel Stoltz in pure funk style. The building's various functions are clearly presented in the facades, where the ballroom itself is marked with a vaulted ceiling and glazed gables. The interior was lavish and elegant.



📸: Nicole Voigt

03/06/2024

One of Malmö's most popular symbols, the old water tower, is over 100 years old.

The tower was completed in 1903 on memorable land. Korrebäcken was dammed here about 420 years ago and Malmö got the first Pildammen.

Waterworks
The water was led from here in two wooden pipes to a well on Stortorget. Malmö thus got the oldest organized water supply in Sweden. The well is today preserved underground.

A modern waterworks north of the now expanded Pildammarna was completed in 1867. There, the water, after passing through filters and with the help of steam engines, was pumped out into new cast iron pipes.

It was a technology that could satisfy both the need for cleaner water but also water delivered to the different floors of the houses. In 1879, with increasing water demand, we got both the Bulltoftaverket and Kirsebergstornet.

The water plant is taken out of service
After 1900, when the highly water-bearing and very clean Alnarps stream was exploited, the need for the Pildammsverket disappeared. The reservoir replacement was Pildammstornet, designed by the architect Harald Boklund.

The city's pressure level of + 31 m also became the tower's pressure level. Unfortunately, the volume was only 400 m³, which meant that the tower could not fulfil its function for most of the day.

With the need to increase line pressure, the two older towers were shut down in 1916 and replaced by the Södervärnstornet. The cultural function of Pildammstornet is, however, intact.



📸: Nicole Voigt

02/06/2024

Rubato
In front of the entrance to Malmö Live, by the canal, Eva Hild's artwork Rubato is placed. It was through an invited competition that Hild won with the idea of ​​Rubato and then high-tech precision work was carried out to produce a model for the work. The parts were then sent to Düsseldorf to be cast together and completed before the work arrived in Malmö.

Rubato comes from the world of classical music and is used when the music should not be strictly tied to time, but rather become more fluid and mobile. It means a temporary release from the confines of music.

The competition's judging group states: "This artistic creation is inspired by the longing for and the feeling in the sweet music. The work transforms the music into living soft forms that seem to be in constant motion. It gives the viewer free associations, new thoughts and dreamy images. Rubato takes the place, catches your eye – and sweet music arises.”



📸: Nicole Voigt

01/06/2024

Royal is Malmö's largest cinema. When it opened in 1961, the Royal was the first cinema in Scandinavia that had been planned to be able to show all film formats known at the time.

Today, the cinema has a projector for both 35 and 70 mm film as well as a 4K and 3D for digital film. The screen area at Cinemascope is 19.8 x 8.3 meters or 168 square meters and the screen itself is 20 x 8.5 meters, which is Sweden's second largest screen. The canvas was replaced in connection with the renovation in 2012. After many years, the canvas has become almost as large as the original canvas from 1961.

The sound system, called Experience Live, is the only one of its kind in the world so far.

Royal was built under the auspices of Göta Films and inaugurated in 1961 by its director Sten Löfberg. The architect was Sven Grönqvist who, together with architect Birger Jonsson, created the cinema. The advent of Royal can be seen as a determined and powerful attempt to renew the art of cinema in the face of the competition that television now posed. The competition was taken seriously despite the fact that TV in Sweden at that time consisted of only one black-and-white channel shown in a rather small picture format.

Royal's drawing room was red and blue with walnut walls. Instead of a balcony, the cinema had what was called a high floor. In 1961, the number of seats was 754, which after 1999 became 682 and in 2011 became 501. The sound technology used 23 speakers around the salon. Today there are 136 speaker elements in the salon. In 2011, the salon received a major refurbishment and is now in black and red. New chairs and floor. Today, the foyer has been completely remodelled but follows the same classic style with wood panels, glass, brass, stone and marble

The premiere film was The Windjammer on March 16, 1961. Directed by Louis de Rochemont and Bill Colleran.



📸: Nicole Voigt

31/05/2024

The building is the architect couple Nils August Ewe and Carl Melin's first major project in Malmö and was originally built as an apartment building for the wholesaler Möller in 1907. The grand Art Nouveau building quickly became popularly known as the "Miljonpalatset" due to the then-unheard-of construction cost of over one million Swedish kronor. Brf Drottninghus was already established in 1932 and thus belongs to the group of the oldest condominium associations in the country.

So it cost over one million SEK to build it in 1907, but how much do you have to pay today if you want to live there?
Then it costs approximately 50 500 kr/m² (4336,80 € / 3711,67 £ / 4715,61$ )



📸: Nicole Voigt

30/05/2024

Södervärnstornet is an old water tower in central Malmö, located in the Möllevången sub-district, Södra Innerstaden, by Nobelvägen. The tower was completed in 1916 and supplied Malmö with water until 2015.

The then (1916) city architect Salomon Sörensen designed the Södervärnstornet, which at the time was considered one of Malmö's architectural masterpieces with its muscular design. The facade was built with bricks from Börringe Tegelbruk, Lomma Tegelfabrik and Helsingborgs Ångtegelbruk.

Södervärnstornet's height is 54 m and can be classified as one of Skåne's highest water towers. The capacity is two million litres of water and was built because the older water towers on Kirseberg and in Pildammsparken were not enough.

On the facade, there was a slightly lighter part under the copper roof. This was added in April 1983, when scaffolding was erected at the tower due to roof repairs. A graffiti artist then climbed the scaffolding and painted there the text "MURDERED CARS HATE DATA". Blasting was required to remove the scrawl and you can therefore still see where it was placed. In connection with an advertising campaign for condom use in the mid-2000s, pictures were taken of Södervärnstornet wearing a condom. The campaign was created by a student at Mediegymnasiet.[source needed]

The tower ended up in municipal ownership in 2018 when VA SYD transferred the building to the city of Malmö.

After the water tower was retired, plans to convert it into a residential building have been discussed. The city of Malmö received offers from private real estate companies that expressed interest in buying the tower and converting it into a residential building.

Locally, the tower is sometimes nicknamed The C**k, as some see the tower's shape as phallus-like



📸: Nicole Voigt

29/05/2024

Today is Veterans Day and I thought I would inform you about the Memorial site for UN veteran soldiers in Malmö.
Just over sixty years ago, the first Swedish troop was flown to a peacekeeping operation in an international hotbed of conflict outside Europe. In 1956, a battalion donned the blue UN helmet and took their first nervous steps into a dangerous and risky mission. Since then, nearly 80,000 Swedes have participated in operations in Gaza, Lebanon, Cyprus, Congo, Liberia, the former Yugoslavia, Mali, Afghanistan and many other countries. To remember their efforts under the flag of the international community, SVF's (Swedish Veterans' Association) associations have erected memorial stones around Sweden.

The memorial sites are places where our members have ceremonies such as Veteran's Day and UN Day, but it is also an important place to remember their comrades and their contribution with a Swedish flag on their arm.
Pompous memorial monument with yellow LED light at night, symbolizing the Yellow Ribbon. Located at Bastion Uppsala, Norra Vallgatan, Malmö C.



📸: Nicole Voigt

28/05/2024

In 1900, the first advertising signs were painted on the Apoteket lion's facade. John Tesch, who was an apothecary and owner of the [Tesch Palace] did like many other homeowners in the growing city towards the end of the 19th century.

Stortorget in Malmö
John Tesch had a fire gable used as an advertising space for the city's businessmen and thus received advertising revenue. There were up to eight layers of advertising before the wall was painted over in 1914.

The overpainting was peeling and by the 1990s was in such poor condition that the old layers of advertising threatened to disappear. Most of the city's facade paintings are now rebuilt or painted over, but this wall, restored in 1994 to its original condition, stands as a monument to ancient advertising history.
It is probably the only completely recreated advertising facade in Europe.



📸: Nicole Voigt

27/05/2024

The Hedmanska farm at Lilla torg. The farm consists of five different buildings of highly variable age and is a good example of a typical Malmö city farm and its residential development during a stage in the city's history when the citizens engaged in both trade and agriculture.

In the 16th century, Malmö got two squares, Stortorget and Lilla Torg. They were laid out in the city's medieval quarter and older buildings were demolished. The plots at the square were attractive and here the city's citizens established trading yards.

The site of Hedmanska gården in Malmö is believed to have been built as early as the 15th century but is first mentioned in the late 1520s. The farm's five buildings have a building history that spans from the 1590s to the 1890s.

The Hedman farm is named after Gabriel Hedman, who became the owner of the entire farm in 1838. In 1850-52, he had the large warehouse built inside the farm for grain storage. The oldest building is the powerful half-timbered house, with a gateway to Lilla Torg, which was built by the mayor Niels Hammer in 1597.

The best preserved cruciform house in Malmö
The house facade in Niels Hammer's house is considered to have the best-preserved 16th-century half-timbering in Malmö. Residence and office were on the ground floor, while the second floor housed warehouses. The other part of the length towards Lilla Torg, was probably built around the turn of the century 1600, but got its facade in Empire style, by the merchant Per Malmros in 1805.

Magasinslänga built in the 1720s
Along Hjulhamnsgatan rises a long stretch of half-timbered warehouses. The far part was probably built by Diedrich Sölcher in the 1720s, while the part closest to the square was built by Haquin Bager a few decades later. Here was then a large cologne for malt drying.

The youngest building is the small office and storage building inside the farm from 1894.

Hedmanska gården has been a building monument since 1993.



📸: Nicole Voigt

26/05/2024

Fisktorget (or Fisktorg) was the name of a now-disappeared square at Norra Vallgatan in Malmö.

The square was laid out in 1894 at the Älvsborg Bastion immediately west of the Hjälmar Bridge. Here, fish were sold that the so-called "sillagummorna" or "prångarna", i.e. fishermen's wives, were transported there from Limhamn by the Malmö-Limhamn Railway, also called the "Sillabanan". In 1969, the square was removed and the name expired, but the statue "Fiskegumma" (1949) by the sculptor Clarence Blum reminds us of the fish trade in the place.

Another fish market was organized in 1911 between the market hall on Drottningtorget and the Östra Hamnkanalen. Probably the fish sales there were more short-lived.



📸: Nicole Voigt

25/05/2024

Decommissioned Sailors memory

During the standby period, Sweden suffered losses in ships and human lives, even though the country never took part in the war. The merchant fleet lost 206 ships and 1270 Swedes perished. The fishing fleet lost 31 ships with 89 casualties, and the navy eight ships with 92 casualties. Serious disasters also occurred, including a transport ferry sinking in 1940 and the Horsfjärd disaster in 1941, where three Swedish destroyers were destroyed in an explosion.

Of the approximately 2,000 civilian Swedes who perished during the Second World War, most were sailors. The ships' exposed position on the seas led to them being hit by torpedoes or sunk by mines.

To honour their memory, the "Monument to the Memory of Fallen Sailors" was erected in 1945, with an authentic anchor resting on a rectangular pedestal with inscriptions. The memorial was designed by cathedral architect Eiler Graebes with inscriptions and reliefs by Ivar Ålenius-Björk.



📸: Nicole Voigt

24/05/2024

The knotted gun or “Non-Violence” is a bronze sculpture by Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd from 1980, which depicts a revolver with a knot on the barrel. At the Skissernas museum in Lund, there is a sketch of the revolver where Reuterswärd notes that it was the grief after the murder of John Lennon in 1980 that made him design the work.

The work is placed in several places in the world, including outside the United Nations headquarters in New York, in Berlin and Beijing.

The knotted gun is also the inspiration and basis for the initiative to start The Non-Violence Project, (NVP) in 1993. The basic idea was to support future generations to understand how to resolve conflicts without violence. By raising awareness of the sculpture's message and offering training on how to resolve conflicts without violence, the founders saw an opportunity to contribute to a world with less violence. The initiative focused on school and sports as the best ways to globally reach as many young people as possible under the motto Knowledge is the best weapon against violence.
A pilot project is quickly growing into a global organization with non-violence training in schools and sports clubs around the world. In several countries, local organizations are also joining, which with their local roots can push the vision of a more peaceful world with the help of NVP's educational materials and probably the world's strongest non-violent symbol, the knotted gun.



📸: Nicole Voigt

23/05/2024

HMS U3, a Swedish submarine was launched on June 11, 1942. Today she is preserved at the House of Technology and Maritime Affairs in Malmö.

U3 was one of the series of coastal boats, U1-U9, whose final appearance was determined by the King in March 1939. The contract was concluded with Kockums on 20 September 1939 for the construction of the first submarine U1. In 1940, the shipyard manager in Malmö was commissioned to build U2 and U3. U3 was keel-stretched on 6 May 1941 and launched on 11 June 1942. The trial crew mustered out on 15 February 1943 and delivery to the Navy took place on 1 November of the same year. During the war, the U3 was largely used for training new crews for the 18 submarines delivered during the war.

After the war, the submarines were stored with reduced crews, where one crew alternately drove 3-4 submarines. Technical experiences from the war and information from outside, mainly from Germany, inspired a round of modernization for all Swedish submarines with sufficient remaining life. Test with snorkel, radar, radar warning etc. was carried out.

The coast boats, or "Number boats" as the submariners called them, began to be rebuilt. U3 was modernized at Kockum's shipyard in Malmö between August 1952 and April 1953. U3 was fitted with a snorkel and a variety of other improvements. The equipment removed was the aft deck torpedo tube, anti-aircraft gun, net saw and turbofan. A periscope was also taken ashore to make room for the snorkel. The shape of the tower became more hydrodynamically correct and the underwater speed thus increased from 7.5 knots to 9 knots. In 1954, U3 received a new hydrophone, torpedo fire control instruments and more modern radio equipment. After some time the keel was removed and tests with automatic weight control and one-man steering equipment were carried out. Radar detectors were installed on the snorkel.

U3 is today located at Teknikens och Sjöfartens hus in Malmö. Guides from the U3 Veteran crew perform popular tours and talk about life on board.



📸: Nicole Voigt