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Skatteskrapan

Skatteskrapan is a 26-storey, 86 m building in , . It is located at Götgatan 76 in the district of , in a block named Gamen. With an initial height of 81 metres and 25 floors, it was the tallest building in Sweden from its completion in 1959 to 1964 when it was surpassed by the 84 metres tall .
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  • Type: Apartment building
  • Description: high-riser on Södermalm in Stockholm, Sweden
  • Also known as: “Skrapan” and “Studentskrapan”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Saint Eric’s Cathedral and Victoria.

Church
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Saint Eric's Cathedral is a Catholic cathedral in , . It is located on , the southern part of central Stockholm. It was built in 1892 and was raised to the status of a cathedral in 1953, when the Catholic Diocese of Stockholm was created. is situated 190 metres north of Skatteskrapan.

Movie theater
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is a movie theater, which is situated 100 metres northeast of Skatteskrapan.

Park
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is a park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Södermalm and Skanstull.

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is the southern borough of central Stockholm, consisting of the island of proper, two smaller islands connected to it from the west, as well as the neighbourhood of Hammarby Sjöstad on the opposite bank of the Hammarby Sjö in the east, which is a redeveloped former industrial area that was transformed into a model sustainable residential community.

Neighborhood
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is an area in in . connects the traffic between the inner city and the south parts of Stockholm and its suburbs.

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pronounced gamlaˈstɑːn, the Old Town, also known as Staden mellan broarna is the Old Town in , containing genuine cultural heritage, as well as tourist traps.

Skatteskrapan

Latitude
59.31202° or 59° 18′ 43″ north
Longitude
18.07355° or 18° 4′ 25″ east
Elevation
35 metres (115 feet)
Inception
1959
Levels
27
Height
104 metres (343 feet)
Open location code
9FFW836F+RC
Open­Street­Map ID
way 37046494
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­apartments
Geo­Names ID
12089114
Wiki­data ID
Q1032561
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Swedish—“Skatteskrapan” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Skatteskrapan”
  • Finnish: “Skatteskrapan”
  • French: “Skatteskrapan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Skatteskrapan”
  • Persian: “اسکاتسکرافان”
  • Swedish: “Skattehuset”
  • Swedish: “Skatteskrapan”
  • Swedish: “Skrapan”
  • Swedish: “Studentskrapan”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Skatteskrapan”. Photo: Slarre, CC BY-SA 3.0.