A large square used as an open produce market, ringed by plain early twentieth century apartment blocks with ground floor shops.
What Möllevången looks like
is a large open square enclosed on all four sides by even blocks of red brick apartment buildings, most of them built between 1904 and 1907. A produce market runs across the paving most days, striped awnings over stalls selling fruit, vegetables and flowers.
The surrounding blocks are four to five storeys, plain red brick fronts with bay windows, a handful with Art Nouveau stone trim around the doors and upper windows. Ground floors are shops, cafes and bars, with outdoor seating set out on the pavement in front of them.
A bronze and granite monument from 1931 stands at the centre of the square, several bronze figures lifting a granite block over their heads. borders the square's north side, its entrance a painted wooden arch over the gate into the gardens.
The Bridge used a building on as the exterior of its fictional Malmö police headquarters in its first season, the facade standing directly across the street from the address where one of the series' murders takes place. A different building nearby, now split into offices including a yoga studio and a jobseekers centre, stood in for the station in the second and third seasons.
The police drama Tunna blå linjen filmed a staged hostage scene with armed officers in the middle of Möllevångstorget in 2019, and part of the square was closed to the public for the shoot. The series premiered on SVT in January 2021, following six police officers through a fictional present day Malmö.
Shot in Möllevången
The Bridge used a building on Möllevångsgatan as the exterior of its fictional Malmö police headquarters in season one, then a different building nearby in the seasons after. Tunna blå linjen later filmed a staged hostage scene in the middle of Möllevångstorget itself.
The Bridge, 2011
The health centre corner
The building directly across the street from 42 Möllevångsgatan stood in as the exterior of the fictional police headquarters in the first season. In real life it is a health centre. A different building nearby, now split into offices including a yoga studio and a jobseekers centre, took over as the station facade for the second and third seasons.
Tunna blå linjen, 2021
Möllevångstorget
Police with drawn weapons staged a fictional hostage situation here for the series in October 2019, and part of the square was closed to the public for the shoot. Actors Sandra Stojiljkovic and Anna Sise, two of the series' six police leads, were among the cast filming that day.
What Möllevången can double for
Hakaniemi in Helsinki, Finland
Hakaniementori is an open market square ringed by red brick apartment blocks from the National Romantic period, most of them going up in the same decade as Möllevångstorget. The market hall at one end keeps stalls running across the square itself. The market hall's own arched windows and granite trim are more ornamented than Möllevången's plainer blocks, so a wide frame across the open square reads closer than one on the hall's own facade. Try searching red brick market square now.
Boxhagener Platz in Berlin, Germany
The square in Friedrichshain is ringed by Gründerzeit apartment blocks from the early 1900s, with a weekend market still running across it. The working class scale of the blocks is close to Möllevången's own. Berlin's stucco facades carry more ornament than Möllevången's plain brick, so a wide shot of the whole square reads more Gründerzeit than a single building would. Try searching Gründerzeit square market now.
Olaf Ryes plass in Oslo, Norway
The square in Grünerløkka is ringed by plain three and four storey worker housing from a few decades before Möllevången's own blocks, and markets still run on Birkelunden nearby. The brick is plainer than central Oslo's. The square's mature trees and iron park railings are more landscaped than Möllevångstorget's open paving, so a tighter street level frame hides the greenery better than a wide one. Try searching plain brick worker housing now.
