Page 10 - Hotel Tunnel's 100 Years of History

In the beginning of the 1500s, the easternmost booth and the garden loca- ted east of it were donated by the parish administrator of Malmo S:t Petri Church, canon of Lund Johan Dringelberg, with an annual land tax of 14 marks and 2 1/2 marks 5 skill, or 1 lodig mark Additionally, there was a do- nation of 1 lodig mark in annual rent of the same garden to the construc- tion of Lund Cathedral.
The other two booths were also donated during the Catholic era: the nea- rest booth to an unnamed altar in S:t Petri Church and the one east of it to S:t Hans' altar. In the late 1400s or early 1500s, Lund Cathedral chapter lost its possession rights to the aforementioned booths, now called krambodar, and in the early 1500s they became altar goods from which annual land taxes went to various altar and chapel foundations in S:t Petri Church. The old booths on Adelgatan underwent significant changes in the late 1400s in terms of their interior and types of goods sold, becoming krambodar. This change was due to increased competition in the clothing industry and the growth of clothing booths along the city's major streets, as well as competi- tion from kramhandlare (merchants who sold various imported goods) in the cloth trade.
To curb the excessive display of goods and the overwhelming advertise- ment of goods among the increasing number of merchants, the regulation stated that a merchant could not have more open windows displaying goods than what he could have in one house. It is clear that with such
regulations, the merchants, who over time have become more like the
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