Högaborg

Högaborg is a district of the Swedish city of Helsingborg, which lies south of the city center and east of the district Söder. The eponymous municipality has about 4,000 inhabitants ( as of 2005), around half of whom are immigrants.

History

Originally, the area belonged to the trading estate Eneborg. Beginning of the 20th century whose land was carved up by the newly founded company Eneborgs AB. It encouraged artisans and laborers to build here homes. The name of the new district probably derives from a former building in the area from which adorned with the lettering " Högaborg ", as can be seen in old photographs.

Within just one year - 1903-1904 - the population grew in the neighborhood of 280 to 1547 people on to are only a few years later in 2731 inhabitants. Initially Högaborg was a quiet and idyllic residential area on the outskirts of Helsingborg, with adjacent small gardens. 1914 were presented at the Baltic Exhibition in Malmö plans of the architect Sigurd Lewerentz and Torsten Stubelius for a larger residential estate in Högaborg, however, were implemented only to a limited extent. The resulting houses are, however, still unchanged.

In the 1970s and 80s, a comprehensive neighborhood redevelopment took place in Högaborg, was demolished in the frame for a older building and replaced by new buildings in the form of rental houses, was renovated to the other but also a part of the old building on a large scale.

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