It's from what was called "Stora Keseberget" (Keseberg = kirseberg), which was dug out & used as the concrete foundation for the rest of the city during the 19th century. I guess it's the area that stretches down to modern day Spillepengen, all the way from Värnhem approximately. The ocean went much higher back then, before the harbours were built; I think the big building in the foreground is St. Pauli. This particular print is from 1856, but the original painting is older.
Way back when these parts were still Danish, they used to have Valborg celebrations up on these hills. Since it's always been looking down on Malmö, I like to assume that these feasts stretch back to pre-Christian days. A couple of centuries later, and they were burning witches here. The enclosures that are now Kirseberg proper were actually drawn out on the oldest maps of Malmö that I've come across, from the early 15th century, so besides "gamla stan", Backarna is the oldest geographic region that hasn't changed at all.
On another note: LUST VESSEL added to the distributor list.
