Hagbards källare

Hagbard’s cellar is an ancient monument from what is presumed to be a defensive tower from the Middle Ages and is found at the mouth of the Angleån river in Ronneby. It has gained its name from the legend of Hagbard and Signe written in Danernas bedrifter, a work from about 1200 about the history of Denmark. The walls measure ten times ten metres and are a metre thick, with a height above ground of about one and a half metres. The cut stone in the walls indicates that the building was an expensive one when it was built, with several storeys. The stones in the walls also indicate that the fortress may have had a permanent fireplace, at least on the ground floor. The remains were described for the first time in the eighteenth century as the ruins of a “nest of thieves”. Source: Wikipedia