Red brick and stone civic buildings in National Romantic style, and the courtroom where The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo staged Blomkvist's libel trial.
What Kungsholmen looks like
sits at the island's eastern point, its walls built from nearly eight million dark red bricks and its square tower rising 106 metres above the water. Turrets topped with small gilded stars and decorated balconies break the roofline. Inside, the Blue Hall runs the width of the building as a long arcaded courtyard.
A few streets west, the fills a long stone and brick block on Scheelegatan, a steep dormered roof running its length and a green copper dome capping its own tower. The building looks more like a stone castle than a courthouse, and an underground passage connects it to the police headquarters next door.
Hantverkargatan and Fleminggatan carry most of the shops and cafes on the island's eastern half, running between five and six storey rendered buildings with shallow balconies and corner turrets. Toward Fredhäll and Kristineberg further west, plainer rendered blocks from the 1930s line streets planted with mature trees, cars parked along both kerbs.
runs the length of the southern shore as a paved footpath, small boats moored along sections of it. sits beside the promenade partway along. Smedsuddsbadet and Fredhällsbadet lie further along the same shoreline, rock and sand reaching down to the water.
Shot in Kungsholmen
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo used the Stockholm Court House as the courtroom where Mikael Blomkvist loses his libel case against Wennerström. The production filmed inside the real courthouse rather than a built set.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 2011
Stockholm Court House
Mikael Blomkvist loses his libel case against Wennerström inside this courthouse, on Scheelegatan. The production shot in the real Stockholm District Court rather than a built set. Street View
What Kungsholmen can double for
Oslo City Hall in Oslo, Norway
Oslo City Hall was designed in 1918 as a direct answer to Stockholm's own, and the finished building shares the same dark red brick walls and a civic tower rising over the water. It stands on Oslo's Pipervika waterfront the same way Kungsholmen's city hall corner stands on its own. Oslo's building has two towers rather than one, so keep a single tower in frame to hold the match. Try searching red brick city hall tower now.
Katajanokka in Helsinki, Finland
Katajanokka's own housing cooperatives went up around 1902 in the same Jugendstil idiom as Kungsholmen's rendered apartment blocks, both waterfront islands with a path ringing the shore. The scale of five and six storeys and the corner turrets match closely. Katajanokka's brickwork runs redder and its balconies more ornamented, so a plainer block or a tighter frame holds the illusion better. Try searching Jugendstil waterfront apartment block now.
