Järnvägsgatan
At Helsingborg City Hall, Järnvägsgatan and Drottninggatan form the large parade street that runs through the entire city center. Here the hustle and bustle of the city mixes with people on their way to and from Helsingborg’s modern central station, which is directly adjacent. The nearby inner harbor basin offers direct contact with the sea and opens up for sunny outdoor dining and pleasant walks along the quayside.
Find to Järnvägsgatan
On Järnvägsgatan is located Helsingborg Cwhere you can go by bus, train and ferry. On Helsingborgs stad’s parking map you will find the nearest parking lot.
Shop in the city
In Helsingborg city you will find everything from international chains to unique, local shops.
Eating in the city
Helsingborg city has a wide range of restaurants, cafés and bars for all tastes!
Experience the city
Experience all that Helsingborg has to offer! Culture, attractions, activities or why not a tour?
Discover the whole city
Continue your journey through Helsingborg City from Järnvägsgatan and on to other parts of our city center. Here you can experience something fun for the whole family, for the couple, the group of friends or some alone time. Whether you are looking for good food, nice shopping or a cultural experience, there is something for you here.
Purple flag
We want a vibrant, safe and attractive city center, which feels welcoming and invites to activity and stay. Since the fall of 2016, Purple Flag has been working together and through broad collaboration to create an equal, safe and attractive city with a varied range of activities for everyone, even after 17:00.
Purple flag at Helsingborg C
In September 2017, we conducted a workshop and a baseline analysis to kick off the work. The results formed the basis for an action plan that was certified in October 2018 and recertified in November 2020 and 2022, and most recently in October 2024.
The action plan is a concrete and living document, which is continuously monitored and adjusted. Every three years (from 2024 onwards – previously every two years), a new current situation analysis is carried out with night walking, analysis of statistics, etc. which partly summarizes and evaluates the work done but also forms the basis for a new updated action plan, which is certified by Swedish City Centers.
Helsingborg C is a very good example of how broad collaboration and common goals have succeeded in resulting in increased safety and security, a more pleasant and welcoming environment with a wide range of services aimed at the needs of the target group.
Through regular collaboration for safety, the city’s EST work (effective coordination for safety) and increased presence in the area, we constantly have an updated situation picture and can quickly act, adjust and meet any problems early.
Read the action plan for Helsingborg C, recertification 2024
Read the action plan for Helsingborg C, recertification 2022
Read the action plan for Helsingborg C, recertification 2020
Take part of the action plan for Helsingborg C, 2018
Examples of initiatives to increase security and attractiveness in the area in and around Helsingborg C:
– A total of around 300 surveillance cameras in the area
– Security guards both in the station area and in public spaces
– Collaboration for security four times a year with a walk through the area
– EST reporting twice a week
– Increased presence provides more reports of crime and disorder and thus a better basis for action
– Improved lighting and prioritized and welcoming design and focus on sustainable materials, completely and cleanly both indoors and outdoors
Examples of what we are working on going forward in the area:
– Safety and security are constantly in focus
– The area has been expanded with Gamla Stationsplatsen, the new platforms in the south, Hotel Marina Plaza and Kungstorget
– Focus on the right establishments when vacancies in premises arise
– Completely, clean and tidy is constantly in focus
– Maintain the positive results we have achieved so far and further increase our ambitions
We are actively working with these focus groups:
– Property owners
– Businesses
– Helsingborgs stad and authorities
– Police and security guards
– Trafikverket/Skånetrafiken/Öresundslinjen
Helsingborg C area
The area includes Helsingborg C with associated buildings, Elite Hotel Marina Plaza, parking lots and streets, squares and platforms. The area is a communication node where ferries to Denmark, rail and buses arrive and where there are car and bicycle parking facilities as well as pedestrian and bicycle access to Oceanhamnen via Varvsbron.
The buildings within and adjacent to the area include offices, hotels, shops, medical centers, dentists, restaurants and schools. Some parts of the area are still perceived as unsafe and occasionally noisy, especially in the evening and at night. Many people live in and pass through the area, which is accessible all day.
The land and buildings are owned by three different parties: Helsingborgs stad, Wihlborgs Fastigheter AB and the Swedish Transport Administration. Elite Hotel Marian Plaza owns the hotel building. Wihlborgs Fastigheter AB rents out its premises to a number of tenants such as businesses, the city and Öresundslinjen. The Swedish Transport Administration owns the areas for train passengers, such as platforms, stairs and elevators up from the platforms.
Helsingborg C has become a meeting place for many different groups, not just travelers or visitors to shops, restaurants and businesses in the area. Various youth groups come here to meet friends, but also to go to and from school. There are around 20 independent schools at secondary level in the city centre. Some go over to Denmark on the ferries to party and come back late at night. Some of them are heavily intoxicated and disorderly. Addicts and homeless people live in the area and some of them travel to and from Helsingborg via Helsingborg C to visit LARO clinics due to the free choice of care.
The social administration’s mobile teams are centrally located in the area. The purpose of their work is to help and support young people and work preventively to reduce youth crime throughout Helsingborg. Their location within the area means that they have a good overview and can make rapid interventions. While the area has a reputation for being unsafe, it is a place many people would probably go to if they felt unsafe out in the city as there are people on the move and visible security guards. The redevelopment of the travel center, bus terminal and adjacent streets, places and passages has always had safety and the experience of the place in focus both in terms of supply, design, choice of materials and layout.
The aim of the redevelopment was to streamline the travel center and to place restaurants on the second floor, lockable after closing time, but also to create clean, fresh and visible areas to increase safety and also the experience of completely, clean and tidy. The offer has been reviewed to create added value and attract a wider target group.
In connection with the rebuilding, the name “Knutpunkten” has been changed to Helsingborg C, which is clearer for both visitors and residents and, above all, marks something new.
Kungstorget has also been transformed into a welcoming entrance square with a new modern and safe bicycle parking area. The roundabout south of the building, the Old Station Square with the above-ground platforms and the passage through the bus terminal, which connects the new platforms with the travel center, have been rebuilt and made more welcoming and safe.
Our other
Purple Flag sites in Helsingborg
Söder
In connection with the certification of Helsingborg C in 2018, we started the Purple Flag work on Söder. There is a lot going on in Söder right now and the work with Purple Flag is part of the Älskade Söder place collaboration. In November 2020, we were certified for our action plan for the area and in November 2022, we were recertified for a new updated action plan.
Maria torg
The area around Maria Torg is Helsingborg’s first Purple Flag process. It started in January 2016 and the action plan was certified in the fall of 2017. In December 2019 and October 2021 and 2023 we were recertified for new updated action plans. 2019 we expanded the area, so that our different Purple Flag areas are connected.