Unique 18th century house opens: "A treasure for Gothenburg"

In one corner of the garden, work is still underway on what is to become a submerged greenhouse. Right now, the focus is on the garden because it has been neglected for many years, but now it has been given new life. The house itself has also got a built-in porch at the back, and a garage that looked very modern has had to change its look. A plank has been replaced with a steel black forging fence.

- We expect that when we open the front door towards Stigbergstorget, people will find here, because those who live here are curious, I think, and want to see what happens, says Isabel Lagos.

The house has an exciting history with a hijack captain who was almost never on deck and who himself never had the chance to live in the house. When he was 20 years old, Lars Gathenhielm, at the request of Karl XII, began to hijack ships. There were more than 80 people, and he was charged, but never convicted of piracy. Instead, he was adored and switched from "Lasse in the Street" to the more beautiful sounding Gathenhielm.

As a thank you for the successful hijacking, he got the plot of the king. However, Lars died when he was only 29 years old, otherwise the same year as Karl XII, 1718. Lars Gathenhielm and Karl XII never met.

The Gathenhielmska house was built in the 1740s and is one of Gothenburg's oldest houses. Just over 200 years later, in 1964, the Gathenhielmska house became Sweden's first building memory-declared house.

The king of kings and his wife are buried, in each of their lavish sarcophagi, in Onsala church.