The Discovery of a City

Generations had passed and the city that preceded Vänersborg, Brätte, had fallen into oblivion. But one day at the beginning of the last century, a strange discovery was made.

It was the autumn of 1904 when the antique dealer Gustav Magnusson Blomqvist was walking across the fields by Lake Vassbotten, four kilometers south of Vänersborg. In the soil he saw large quantities of pottery shards. When the finds were shown to the museum curator and principal of the city's school for the deaf, Fredrik Nordin, he was able to assess that the pottery was from the 15th-17th centuries. The amount of finds showed that many people had lived at the site. Gustav understood that he had made an extraordinary discovery that day – the discovery of Brätte, the lost city.