Norre Port is one of the few surviving parts of Halmstad’s old fortress, completed in 1601. The city gate once served as the northern entrance to Halmstad and was in use as a traffic route all the way until the 1960s, when what was then called National Route 2 — the old E6 — passed directly through it.
The fortress also included several casemates, or cannon rooms, built to defend the moat that once surrounded the city. Some of these preserved casemates can still be seen today along Karl XI’s road, Klammerdammsgatan, and Kyrkogatan — reminders of Halmstad’s fortified past.
