Fjällgatan

This guide to Fjällgatan in Stockholm centers on a modest cliffside weighing house built in 1872 for grain merchant C. H. Matton, and the question of why he put his scales at the very top of a cliff, far from his warehouse below. You'll hear how architect Axel Kumlien solved that problem with a gravity-fed rollway carrying grain down to the harbor, and what changed when Stockholm rebuilt that harbor around 1900. It also touches on Stigberget, the cliff's earlier use as the site of Stockholm's public gallows.