Shadow Shot Sunday: Wood, Windows and Cobble Stones

For Shadow Shot Sunday 2 

Photos from outside the main building in our Museum Park

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Oldest Building – Hedared Stave Church

Friday My Town Shoot Out

On our way to Nääs Castle last summer (see FMTSO posts Frozen in Time and Windows and Doors) , we also passed a candidate for the FMTSO theme “oldest building”. It is in fact the oldest surviving building of its kind in Sweden: Hedared Stave Church from 1506.

Landscape photo from the neighbourhood of Hedared.

Ruby Tuesday: Doors and Windows

A “new old” building. Some years ago the old wooden building was to be repaired but when they started the job they found it to be in such a bad state that it came to be replaced by a new “look-alike” building. I’m glad they kept the old style though, we have very few old wooden buildings in the town centre because of big fires back in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

Ruby Tuesday

Friday My Town: Steeples, Spires and Weathervanes

▲ There are two church towers in my town (Borås) which can be seen from various places in the city. One of them in the background to the right, and reflected in the river. The curved building to the left is an old textile factory. This is an old textile industry area.

Caroli church is from the 17th century and is the oldest building in town, the only one that (with some repairs) stood through three major town fires in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

▲ Seen from the town square, with a cinema in the foreground.

▲ At the beginning of the 20th century, as the town kept growing, another church was built ▼

▲ Gustav Adolf’s Church ▼

 

▲ This belltower belongs to the old wooden church that now resides in our Open Air Museum (originally it was built somewhere else) ▼

And below a modern bell-tower belonging to a church in a suburban area that arose in the 1960’s. Fitting right in with with all the grey concrete apartment buildings… ▼

There are several proud old buildings in town with towers and turrets and weathervanes and whatnots without being churches. ▼

▲ This one is known as “The Palace”. It’s an apartment building.

▲ A financial palace (a bank)

▲ Hotel or apartments or both, not sure.

▲ Shops on the ground floor. Not sure if offices or apartments upstairs.

Another old factory – now a bank. They do like their towers!

▲ Electricity company. Like to think they’re powerful, too! (haha)

 

▲ Old railway station from 1863, nowadays offices.
▼ In 1894 another railway station was built, still used as such.

Friday My Town Shoot Out