Ålkistan

Ålkistan (Swedish: "The Eel Hatch") is the name of a canal, and the surrounding area, north of Stockholm, Sweden.

In a rivulet leading to the bay eels were caught using cages (in Swedish called kista, "coffin"), which gave the area its present name.

[1] By the mid-19th century, mud threatened to cork the rivulet, which would effectively have turned Lake Brunnsviken, being used as refuse dump as it was, into a sewer.

King Charles XV therefore ordered the present canal to be constructed in 1863, which lowered the water level of Brunnsviken by two metres.

A 6.5-metre-wide (21 ft) wooden bridge with a mobile flap leading over the canal was added at the same time.