The City King River

Kungälv (King River) is an urban area, which is the county Bohuslän southernmost city, located 20 km north of Gothenburg,
Göta River, which branched into Nordre River. Kungälv is the center of Kungälv towbship.
The city is crossed by the motorway E6, and has a train station on the rail route “Bohus banan”
in Ytterby, 5 km west of the center.
Kungälv was formerly the center of the southern county Bohuslän and the seat of the regional authorities
and nstitutions such as hospital and school.
During the late 1900s it has been the in competition of the strongly expanding industrial city Stenungsund.
The proximity to Gothenburg has also made the city into a metropolitan suburb, in many respects.
Kungälv is home to the Nordic Folk Collage.

History
Kungälv has a rich and longstanding history. It was originally 3 km further west at Nordre River, and was then Konungahälla. According to the Icelandic sagas, in which it mentioned on several occasions, should have been existing already in the 900s, but secure archaeological findings are from the 1100's.
According Snorre Sturlasson Konungahälla was the town where the three Nordic kings met in 1101,
and the Nordic kings concluded a peace agreement.

Then King Sigurd Jorsalafare has made it one of Norway's main cities.
Already in 1135, the city were levelled to the ground by Vendish Vikings.
Konungahälla was rebuilt, but would be destroyed more times:
In 1368 it was burned down by hanseaterna(Trade union monopoly of the mainly German or German-dominated cities),
and the Swedes burned it in 1563 and 1612.
1645 the city was moved, which now has begun to be called Kungälv,
to Bagaholm (current Fortress island), in order to get protection under the Bohus Fortress.
It did not prevent Sweden in 1645 to once again burn it down.
1658 became Kungälv Swedish, but was burned again by the Swedes in 1676,
to prevent the Danish-Norwegian army led by Gyldenløve gain a foothold.
Finally rebuilt in 1680 at its current location, and since then have largely lived in peace.

Industrialization
Kungälv was long the county Bohuslän smallest city - first in 1910 went it got larger then Marstrand -
with agriculture as their primary business.
It began industrialising 1875 when Kungälv glassworks started, to be closed in 1956.
Gothenburg biscuits factory - the city's most famous product -
was founded in 1888 and is still today one of the major employers.
Between 1909 and 1982 produced ABC-factories (AB Brothers Claesson) sports equipment, including skates.

Urbanism
Kungälv settlements was formerly concentrated in West Street and East Street,
much of which has kept its old town settlements.
During the 1900s expansion has the center shifted to the west to Western customs, whose name still lives on.
The city has grown further west, so now the urban area includes the society Ytterby station,
located at the rail route “Bohus banan”.

A small slideshow of a spring promenade in the old part of Kungälv.