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Kolera graveyard

Cholera cemetery was a cholera cemetery near Skanstull in Stockholm that was used from 1809 to 1901. Here, many victims from Stockholm's two cholera epidemics were buried in 1834 and 1853, hence the name. The southern part of the cemetery has two historic buildings that belonged to the operation, the dead digger's nest, and a former outhouse with storage rooms and departed. The dead digger's small apartment building that stands here today was built in 1832. The building's plan corresponds to the couple's cottage, i.e. the pre-cottage, kitchen, chamber and ”fine room”. The floor plan is still the original, except that the kitchen is now located in the chamber and a toilet room has been built out in one gable room, accessible from the kitchen. Under the center of the house there is a basement. The facades are dressed in red-painted locklist panel. Window and door carpentry and shutters are green painted. The buildings with the property designation: Bostället 1, is owned by AB Stadsholmen and is green-marked by the Stockholm City Museum which means ”particularly valuable from historical, cultural history, environmental or artistic point of view”Part of the settlement's plot is part of the permanent antiquities Brännkyrka 79:1. With the status of antiquities, protection follows under the 2nd Chapter of the Swedish Cultural Heritage Act, which means, among other things, that no interference in the land may be done without permission from the County Administrative Board. Wikipedia.

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