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Lindholmen, Gothenburg — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Lindholmen is a former island in the Göta Älv river, since joined to Hisingen and counted as part of Gothenburg in Sweden.
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Where to stay in Lindholmen
Each area has its own feel; here's who each one suits.
Sannegårdshamnen sets the tone. Rooms on Lindholmen sit between that inlet and the Göta Älv, which puts water on two sides and the rest of Gothenburg across the river. Crossings matter here.
If you want Brämaregårdens kyrka and the Hisingen streets rather than a central address this side suits, though a traveller after depth of choice books across the Göta Älv in Gothenburg proper.
Few places to stay in Lindholmen — most visitors book in Gothenburg nearby.
About Lindholmen
What are the main landmarks in Lindholmen?
A schooner heads the list. Skonaren Ingo sits among four fixed points the record gives Lindholmen, the others being Brämaregårdens kyrka, Rambergskyrkan and Sankt Matteus metodistkyrka, three churches the sources tie to this side of Hisingen. Water still frames it.
Sannegårdshamnen holds the marina berths along one edge, which keeps the old channel legible long after the ground either side of it stopped being two separate islands.
What is the history of Lindholmen?
Lindholmen was an island. A channel of the Göta Älv ran between it and Hisingen until 1864, or perhaps later still, and only then did the two pieces of ground come to be treated as one. Maps changed slowly.
What survives of the division is Sannegårdshamnen, the western end of that channel, kept open as an inlet on the Gothenburg side of Hisingen rather than filled in with the rest.
Where is Lindholmen?
The inlet Sannegårdshamnen preserves the western part of the channel that once cut Lindholmen off from Hisingen, and it works as a marina.
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What is the best area to stay in Lindholmen?
Central Gothenburg: rooms across the Göta Älv from Lindholmen.
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Updated September 2026