Lilla Venedig
At the start of the 19th century, the private estate known as Sofielundsgården was split into plots and sold off to two groups of people moving in different dir
At the start of the 19th century, the private estate known as Sofielundsgården was split into plots and sold off to two groups of people moving in different directions: workers escaping the over-crowded city, and poor rural folk being drawn towards it. By the late 1870s, this area (now known as Sofielund) had grown to become a solidly working-class district, south of the city limits. In 1896, it became a municipality society, a semi-independent administrative unit. By 1900, the Kammarkolligiet an influential department in the Ministry of Finance was pushing for Sofielund to be incorporated into the city of Malmö. This was resisted by the Kunglig Majestät the administrative organ of the Swedish monarchy which argued that it shouldn t be part of Malmö because it lacked "sewers, school buildings, fire extinguishing tools and paving on the streets". Idunsgatan was originally called Storgatan, but changed its name when Sofielund was finally incorporated in 1911. Sofielund was called Little Venice because of its tendency to flood. In 1917, 1920 and 1924, it ended up looking like this photograph.
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- Årtal: 1920
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