Uncommon · Architecture
Falun Prison
Museum and hostel in Falun, Sweden
Museum, Falun Municipality
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Falun County Cellular Prison, later the Falun Penitentiary, is a former cellular prison, now a hostel, located centrally in Falun. It was built in 1846–1848 in Neoclassical style to designs by the architect Carl Fredrik Hjelm and was similar in design to other single-room prisons erected at that time under the prison reform decided by the Riksdag of 1844. The building had three floors, housing 66 light and three dark cells, plus an angled wing with premises for administration and a residence for the prison governor.
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