ABSTRACT
In September 2007 a small field study was carried out at Kronoback, a medieval Hospitaller-commandery on the Swedish east coast. The excavations in the 1940s were, however, mainly concentrated on the chapel, the best preserved part of the complex, and no traces from other buildings in the area were ever identified. One of the most important results from Lagerholm's studies was that the commandery seemed to be not the first, but the second, building on the site. In order to investigate if the cellar was medieval or contemporary with the map from the seventeenth century, the first examinations of the building took place during the early spring of 2007. The commandery church in Kronoback is actually very large for a small Scandinavian Hospitaller complex which only existed for about 50 years. The size of the church could, also be explained by the fact that it was built next to the important medieval road that linked the coast with the inland.
