Lamplighter Alley
(Swedish: Lykttändargränd) In the days of gas lanterns, a lamplighter was needed every night.
The house is built of horizontal logs that are interlocked at the corners of the rooms by notching. The overlapping ends of the logs are paneled: the black "knot boxes" (Swedish: knutlåda). Outside the logs there is a lid panel that is painted with traditional red paint containing pigment from the copper-mine in Falun, Dalecarlia.
Västerås was a city already in the 1200s. The alleys in the district Kyrkbacken have never been widened and in 1964 the city decided that the old houses should be preserved.
sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrkbacken (website in Swedish)
Lamplighter Alley
(Swedish: Lykttändargränd) In the days of gas lanterns, a lamplighter was needed every night.
The house is built of horizontal logs that are interlocked at the corners of the rooms by notching. The overlapping ends of the logs are paneled: the black "knot boxes" (Swedish: knutlåda). Outside the logs there is a lid panel that is painted with traditional red paint containing pigment from the copper-mine in Falun, Dalecarlia.
Västerås was a city already in the 1200s. The alleys in the district Kyrkbacken have never been widened and in 1964 the city decided that the old houses should be preserved.
sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrkbacken (website in Swedish)