thumb|Musicians at Ultrahuset thumb|upright|A piece of wallpaper from Ultrahuset. '''Ultrahuset''' (literally "the Ultra house") was a punk music venue run by the Ultra cultural society in Haninge, between June 1980 and August 1988. During those years it was a central point in the young punk Stockholm.<ref name=mitti>{{Cite web |url=https://mitti.se/noje/nostalgi/ultrahuset-handen-kartan/ |title=Mitt i: Se bilderna – här skrevs punkhistoria - Ultrahuset |access-date=2017-08-24 |archive-date=2017-08-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824135825/https://mitti.se/noje/nostalgi/ultrahuset-handen-kartan/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://www.boeckerbooks.se/ultrahuset.html Book description] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831214420/http://boeckerbooks.se/ultrahuset.html |date=2018-08-31 }} "Ultrahuset is a book about the legendary punk and alternative rock venue in Haninge outside Stockholm. About 1000 bands – unknown, famous and infamous ..."</ref>
The society was founded by young people in Handen, south of Stockholm in 1979. Initially, the club did not have its own space but were housed in public buildings during certain limited times. As they felt their own local was necessary for their activities they approached members of the municipality and demanded their own local.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20041127015107/http://hem.passagen.se/punxofsweden/Artiklar/ArtikelUltrahuset.htm Expressen: Här vankas det andra bullar]}}</ref> A year after the formation Ultra was given one of the many abandoned houses in Handen.
The house on the Källvägen 9 in the central Handen was now an activity house, the so-called Ultra house, where a variety of projects employing young people from the neighborhood took place. What makes the Ultra Hall is widely known, however, all the music concerts that were held there on weekends. Over the years there were thousands of concerts with nearly as many bands.<ref name=kompiskamp>[http://www.svd.se/kulturnoje/nyheter/artikel_341390.svd SvD: Kompiskamp]</ref> The rumor about that little house with the very small stage in the living room, adjacent to the kitchen where bun were baked spread. It attracted people from all over Stockholm (or even further away) to make the trip to Handen on the weekends. The attendance record of a gig there was when Ebba Grön played there in 1981, there were 200 people there. Other bands that played there include KSMB, Black Flag (with Henry Rollins), Scream (with Dave Grohl, later known with Nirvana and Foo Fighters) and Det svider i stjärten (with Zak Tell, later known with Clawfinger)<ref name=kompiskamp/> The most famous of the club enthusiasts was Tompa Eken.
In 1987 the municipality decided finally that the area would change and that the society thus had to move. After much protest and a time of occupation the house burnt down the night before August 20, 1988.<ref>[http://www.stockholmsfria.nu/artikel/74369 SFT: Kåken där alla fick lira]</ref> The Ultra cultural society was offered other alternatives, but much of the original commitment had vanished and internal arguments resulted in a split where one party continued call themselves the Ultra and the other called itself RuggUltra. RuggUltra housed in a new site called Hunddagis, was about 45 square meters and existed for about five years.
== See also == * Kafé 44
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== External links == * https://web.archive.org/web/20100129030653/http://www.ultrahuset.org/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20110718040500/http://www.hunddagiset.org/ * http://www.myspace.com/hunddagiset
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Category:Music venues in Sweden Category:Buildings and structures in Stockholm Category:1980 establishments in Sweden Category:1988 disestablishments in Sweden Category:Buildings and structures demolished in 1988 Category:20th-century disestablishments in Stockholm County Category:1980s establishments in Stockholm County