Lödöse

Lödöse

Lödöse (also known as Gamla Lödöse, Gamlöse or Gammelös) is a town on the West Coast of Sweden. It is considered the precursor to modern day Gothenburg, the second largest city in Sweden.

Lödöse by the year 1000 was an important town for trade, located between modern day Oslo and Copenhagen and near the mouth of the Göta river. It was Sweden's only port on the West Coast - hence it had great strategic importance. Trapped as it was between Norway and Denmark, Lödöse was moved to the site of present day Gothenburg ("Göteborg") to escape taxes levied on merchants.

Today, Lödöse is a small town with 1.300 inhabitants in Lilla Edet Municipality, 40 kilometers northeast of Gothenburg up the Göta älv. The medieval history of the town is displayed at the prize winning Middle Age museum – Lödöse Museum – which opened 1996.

External links

* [http://www.lodosemuseum.se Lödöse Museum homepage (in Swedish)]


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