The Rörstrand site is an old cultural village dating back to the 13th century. Rörstrand's porcelain factory, 1726 to 1926, was one of the country's largest industries. In the 1720s, there were small low wooden houses in the area and "the wolf often walks close to the town and during the winter it is often seen in Rörstrand's meadow". Around the factory, a mill community was built with residential buildings, trading stalls, a slaughterhouse, a bakery, a mission house and a couple of schools in the 19th century. Conditions were very difficult for the workers. In the 1900s, the coal smoke lay heavy over Rörstrand. The town needed space for housing, and the Rörstrand factory was moved and the buildings demolished. Residential buildings were built throughout the area. Wealthy people and poorer families lived in the same courtyard. A new wave of restoration began in the 1970s and 1980s. Today, Rörstrandsgatan is a modern street in Birkastan. The aim is to depict how people lived in times of disease, sanitary misery, overcrowding, but also the development of society with joys and relaxation. It is hard to imagine an infant mortality rate of more than thirty percent in the 1850s to the prosperity we have today. A book with the street's historical data, rich pictorial material and descriptions of social life has a cultural-historical and educational value. A number of well-known people have lived at Rörstrandsgatan and a number of businesses, in addition to the porcelain factory, have left their mark on the street's environment.