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braced the cause of that monarch, the burghers being headed by
their spirited burgomaster Jurgen Kock, who once occupied the
Kockumska Hus (see below). In the 16th and 17th cent, the
prosperity of the town declined, partly owing to the failure of the
herring-fishery, and partly to the growing importance of
Copenhagen. The peace of Roeskilde, which restored Skåne to Sweden
in 165S, farther accelerated the decay of the place, and at the end
of the 17th cent, it contained 2000 inhab. only. At length, about
a century later (1775-78), Frans Suell, a wealthy and
public-spirited merchant of Malmö, laid the foundation of the modern
prosperity of his native place by constructing a harbour, which has
since been repeatedly extended and deepened.
The Harbour is on the N.5V. side of the town, with long piers to
prevent it from being choked up with sand. The Hamn-Gata leads
thence in a straight direction to the Malmöhus (PI A, 2, 3), a
fortress at the S.5V. end of the town. In its present form it dates
from 1537, and is architecturally interesting. It is now used as
a prison. Bothwell, Queen Mary Stuart’s third husband, was
imprisoned here in 1573-78, but the vaulted dungeon in which he
was confined is now walled up. He died on 14th April, 1578, in the
chateau of Dragsholm in Zealand, and was interred in the church
of Faarveille.
The Petri Kyrka (PI. 5; B, 2), near the Stor-Torg, founded in
1319, and tastefully restored by Brunius in 1S47-53, is one of the
finest Gothic churches in S. Sweden.
The Tyska Kyrka (PI. 6; C,2) contains an interesting life-size
portrait of Luther, with a swan and the hexameter: lPestis eram
vivens, moriens ero mors tua, papa’.— The Roman Catholic Church
(PL 4; B, 3) is a handsome new edifice in the Gustaf Adolf s Torg,
to the S. of the Stor-Torg.
The *Radhus (PI. 8; B. 2), or town-hall, in the spacious
StorTorg, is a handsome Renaissance edifice, resembling those in several
of the Danish and Hanseatic towns. The facades are in brick, and
the copings and five figures in niches on the roof in sandstone.
Handsome oriel window in the centre. The inscription records the
dates of the foundation, extension, and restoration of the building.
The handsome Knutssal in the interiorwas once the
council-chamber of the powerful Knutsgille (‘Guild of Canute’). The
Lands-tingssaal is also noteworthy. —In the Stor-Torg is also situated the
residence of the Landshöfding, or governor of the province, which
contains the room (shown to visitors) where Charles XV., the
popular predecessor of Oscar II., died on 18th Sept., 1872, when on
his way back from Aix-la-Chapelle to Stockholm. The most
interesting relic of mediaeval domestic architecture is the Kockumska
Hus, in the Frans-Suells-Gata, erected in the 15th cent., and once
occupied by Kock, the warlike burgomaster, and Suell, the
enterprising merchant and benefactor of the town.
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