When Gustav II Adolf founded Gothenburg in 1621, it was an unfortunate state in Sweden when preparing for war against Denmark.
The city of Gothenburg was built to keep an important trading route open, as well as to protect the area where the opening of the river begins.
1640 - Krigskollegiet
In 1640 the so-called
”Krigskollegiet” in Stockholm decided to build a house to store war equipment in Gothenburg. The construction of Kronhuset lasted for 12 years.
1654 - Kronhuset was completed
The house, Kronhuset, was completed in 1654, and the Swedes could start using it.
1660 - Kronhuset was in the limelight
Firstly, when its was used as a royal hall when Kung Karl X called nobility, priests, citizens and peasants to parliament.
Secondly, when the king passed away rapidly, and his son who was only four years old, was appointed king in Kronhuset on march 1 in 1660.
1746 - A big fire in Gothenburg
Kronhuset managed the big fire, but the wooden houses that had been built around Kronhuset, in the so-called Kronhusparken burned down. They replaced these with stone buildings, which still remains today.
1750-1759 - Kronhuset gets sorrounded by Kronhusbodarna
First, the western row of houses was built as a warehouse and a carriage house.
A few years later around 1759 the eastern row of houses was built, which was used by gunsmiths, saddleries and tumers.