Lindholmen, Gothenburg

Aerial photo of Lindholmen from the east

Lindholmen (literally "The Linden Tree Island") is a former island in the Göta Älv river, now part of the larger island of Hisingen, in Gothenburg, Sweden. Lindholmen was not attached to Hisingen until 1864, or perhaps even later,[1] and the western part of the channel separating the two islands is preserved in the form of the inlet Sannegårdshamnen [sv], which now functions as a marina.[2]

In the Middle Ages, Lindholmen was the site of Lindholmen Castle, which was briefly an important royal residence during the reign of Magnus IV of Sweden.

Later, in the nineteenth century, the Lindholmen shipyard [sv] was located in the area.

  1. ^ Elfsborgs slott, Wilhelm Berg 1902, p. 12
  2. ^ Det gamla Göteborg: lokalhistoriska skildringar, personalia och kulturdrag – staden i söder, öster och norr, [Tredje delen], C R A Fredberg (1922). Faksimil med omfattande kommentarer och tillägg av Sven Schånberg, Arvid Flygare, Bertil Nyberg. Walter Ekstrands Bokförlag 1977 ISBN 91-7408-015-6, p. 982