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Stora Nygatan
Stora Nygatan is a street in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden. The troubadour Carl Michael Bellman lived at number 1 in 1785-1787 and at number 20 (still present) in 1787–88. Description *Old names: ''nyegatun'' (1636), ''nyia gaatan'', ''den nya Konnungsgatun'', ''stora konungsgatun'' (1637), ''den store Nye gatan'' (1638), ''Konnungsgatun'' (1641), ''Nye gaten'', ''KongsGaten'' (1660), ''Kongs- eller stoora Nygatan'', ''stora Kongs- el' Nygatan'' (early 18th century), ''Stora Nygatan'' (around 1720). *Parallel streets: Västerlånggatan, Lilla Nygatan. *Crossing streets: Riddarhustorget, Stora Gråmunkegränd, Helga Lekamens Gränd, Göran Hälsinges Gränd, Ignatiigränd, Gåsgränd, Överskärargränd, Sven Vintappares Gränd, Didrik Ficks Gränd, Yxsmedsgränd, Kåkbrinken, Bedoirsgränd, Skräddargränd, Schönfeldts Gränd, Tyska Brinken, Lejonstedts Gränd, Kornhamnstorg. History The street was created as part of a new town plan followi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cobbled Streets In Gamla Stan
Cobblestone is a natural building material based on Cobble (geology), cobble-sized stones, and is used for Road surface, pavement roads, streets, and buildings. Sett (paving), Setts, also called Belgian blocks, are often casually referred to as "cobbles", although a sett is distinct from a cobblestone by being quarried or shaped to a regular form, whereas cobblestone is generally of a naturally occurring form and is less uniform in size. Use in roading Cobblestones are typically either set in sand or similar material, or are bound together with Mortar (masonry), mortar. Paving with cobblestones allows a road to be heavily used all year long. It prevents the build-up of Rut (roads), ruts often found in dirt roads. It has the additional advantage of immediately draining water, and not getting muddy in wet weather or dusty in dry weather. Shod horses are also able to get better traction on stone cobbles, pitches or setts than tarmac or asphalt. The fact that carriage wheels, ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Didrik Ficks Gränd
Didrik Ficks Gränd (Swedish: "Alley of Didrik Fick") is an alley in Gamla stan, the old town of Stockholm, Sweden. Stretching from Västerlånggatan to Stora Nygatan, it forms a parallel street to Sven Vintappares Gränd and Yxsmedsgränd while passing on the south side of the small square Sven Vintappares Torg. History Mentioned as ''Dirich Fiskes grendh'' in 1617, ''Diedrik Fischers gränd'' in 1674, and ''Diedrich Ficks Gränd'' in 1800, the alley is named after a merchant and innkeeper, most likely bearing the genuine name ''Didrich Fischer'' and immigrating from Germany. The man in question is mentioned in 1620 as living in a building in the alley owned by an Erik Jöransson Tegel. The alley was named ''Jöran Perssons gränd'' in 1563 after the latter's father, Jöran Persson, one of the advisers of King Eric XIV. The name of the alley appears as Swedish variations of the name the German man, before being named ''Didrich Fischs gränd'' on a map dated 1733. In Numbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gottfried Sack
Gottfried is a masculine German given name. It is derived from the Old High German name , recorded since the 7th century. The name is composed of the elements (conflated from the etyma for 'God' and 'good', and possibly further conflated with ) and ('peace, protection'). The German name was commonly hypocoristically abbreviated as ''Götz'' from the late medieval period. ''Götz'' and variants (including '' Göthe, Göthke'' and ''Göpfert'') also came into use as German surnames. Gottfried is a common Jewish surname as well. Given name The given name ''Gottfried'' became extremely frequent in Germany in the High Middle Ages, to the point of eclipsing most other names in ''God-'' (such as ''Godabert, Gotahard, Godohelm, Godomar, Goduin, Gotrat, Godulf'', etc.) The name was Latinised as ''Godefridus''. Medieval bearers of the name include: *Gotfrid, Duke of Alemannia and Raetia (d. 709) *Godefrid (d. c. 720), son of Drogo of Champagne, Frankish nobleman. *Godfrid Haraldsson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon De La Vallée
Simon de la Vallée (1590–1642) was a French-Swedish architect. The first architect in Sweden to have received formal academic training, he created the Swedish school of architecture. Biography Born in Paris, he was the son of Marin de la Vallée (1576–1655), an architect associated with the Paris Hôtel de Ville and the Luxembourg Palace. After studying under Salomon de Brosse (1571–1626), he spent the next eight years on several study trips, travelling in particular to Italy, Syria, Jerusalem and Persia. After returning to Paris in 1633, he was charged by Prince Frederick Henry of Orange to undertake work on the Honselaarsdijk Palace in the Netherlands."Simon de la Vallée" ''Historiesajten.se''. Retrieved 2 May 2012. In 1637, he was invited to Stockholm by Field Marshal [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christina Of Sweden
Christina ( sv, Kristina, 18 December ( New Style) 1626 – 19 April 1689), a member of the House of Vasa, was Queen of Sweden in her own right from 1632 until her abdication in 1654. She succeeded her father Gustavus Adolphus upon his death at the Battle of Lützen in 1632, but began ruling the Swedish Empire when she reached the age of eighteen in 1644. The Swedish queen is remembered as one of the most learned women of the 17th century. She was fond of books, manuscripts, paintings, and sculptures. With her interest in religion, philosophy, mathematics, and alchemy, she attracted many scientists to Stockholm, wanting the city to become the " Athens of the North". The Peace of Westphalia allowed her to establish an academy or university when and wherever she wanted. In 1644, she began issuing copper in lumps as large as fifteen kilograms to serve as currency. Christina's financial extravagance brought the state to the verge of bankruptcy, and the financial difficulties c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Project Runeberg
Project Runeberg ( sv, Projekt Runeberg) is a digital cultural archive initiative that publishes free electronic versions of books significant to the culture and history of the Nordic countries. Patterned after Project Gutenberg, it was founded by Lars Aronsson and colleagues at Linköping University and began archiving Nordic-language literature in December 1992. As of 2015 it had accomplished digitization to provide graphical facsimiles of old works such as the '' Nordisk familjebok'', and had accomplished, in whole or in part, the text extractions and copyediting of these as well as esteemed Latin works and English translations from Nordic authors, and sheet music and other texts of cultural interest. Nature and history Project Runeberg is a digital cultural archive initiative patterned after the English-language cultural initiative, Project Gutenberg; it was founded by Lars Aronsson and colleagues at Linköping University, especially within the university group Lysator ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kornhamnstorg
Kornhamnstorg (Swedish: "Grain Harbour Square") is a public square in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden. Known as ''Kornhaffn'' (1427), ''Jernboen'' (1586), ''Åkaretorget'' (1644), and ''Kornhampns torget'' (1651), it is connected to the streets: Munkbroleden, Lilla Nygatan, Stora Nygatan, Torgdragargränd, Funckens Gränd, Triewaldsgränd. The statue of a man drawing a bow on the square, often misinterpreted as depicting William Tell, was inaugurated in 1916 as an homage to Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, leader of the Engelbrekt rebellion (1434–1436) against the German-dominated government of Eric of Pomerania. The statue was carved by the sculptor Christian Eriksson (1859–1935). Archaeology An archaeological investigation in 2002 exposed sections of unmoved cultural deposits at +2.4–1.9 metres asl (square pavement slightly below +3) of layers of sand containing fragments of red pottery, faïence, and Chinese porcelain, probably dating from the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lejonstedts Gränd
Lejonstedts Gränd is an alley in Gamla stan, the old town in central stockholm, Sweden. Stretching from Stora Nygatan to Mälartorget and crossed by Lilla Nygatan, it forms a parallel street to Tyska Brinken and Kornhamnstorg. It is named after the Country marshal (''lantmarskalk'') and Councillor of the Realm Anders Lejonstedt (1649–1725). Lejonstedt who before knighthood was named Volimhaus, owned the block taking up the north-eastern part of the street in the late-17th century together with his brother Jakob (ennobled Gyllenborg) . History Together with its neighbourhood, the alley is a product of the reconstruction of the western part of the old town following the great fire of 1625. Before this, the unregulated urban structure of the city stretched down from Västerlånggatan to the eastern part of the alley, down to the shore. This area was unsuitable for any major construction and used mostly for sheds and for the city's defence. (including maps of the assumed extension ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyska Brinken
Tyska Brinken ( sv, The German Slope) is a street in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden. Extending Kindstugatan past the German Church down to the square Mälartorget, it is crossed by Skomakargatan, Prästgatan, Västerlånggatan, Stora Nygatan, Lilla Nygatan, and Munkbrogatan, while forming a parallel street to Schönfeldts Gränd and Lejonstedts Gränd. History Mentioned as ''Vattubrinken'' ("Water Slope") and ''Skomakarbrinken'' (Shoemaker's Slope") in the 15th and 16th centuries, the street appears as ''Tyske Kyrkebrinken'' in 1612, and finally as ''Tyska brinken'' in 1679, and ''Tyska Brinken'' in 1880. The street name refers to the proximity of the German Church, and the German parish. The German influence in Stockholm was considerable during the Middle Ages - half of both the population and the members of the City Council were German; the Hanseatic League dominated trade; the wealthiest burghers were Germans; and the German language and cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schönfeldts Gränd
Schönfeldts Gränd (Swedish: "Alley of Schönfeldt") is an alley in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden. Stretching south-west from Stora Nygatan to Mälartorget it is crossed by Lilla Nygatan and Munkbrogatan, and forms a parallel street to Kåkbrinken and Lejonstedts Gränd. Before the street names of the old town were revised in 1885, the part east of Lilla Nygatan was known as ''Schönfeldts gränd'', while the western part was called ''Prechtens gränd'' ("Alley of hePrecht"). History The name ''Prechtens gränd'' is composed of the German surname Precht with a definite article suffix added to it, and refers to the German-born court sculptor Buchardt Precht (1651–1738) whose workshop was located on the corner to Lilla Nygatan. A map dated 1733, probably erroneously, labels the street ''Prechtris gr'' 'änd'' the same section in 1737 referred to as ''Badstugugårds eller Prechtens gränd'' ("Bathhouse Homestead or..."); and a guide in 1820 names it ''Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skräddargränd
Skräddargränd (Swedish: "Tailor's Alley") is an alley in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden. Stretching from Västerlånggatan to Stora Nygatan, it forms a parallel street to Bedoirsgränd and Tyska Brinken. History The alley was named after the tailor's guild which occupied number 2 between 1627–1842. Part of the building then served as the ''Förgylta Drufvan'' ("Gilded Grape") tavern sanctioned by King Gustavus Adolphus. The alley was known as ''Bredgränd'' ("Wide Alley") at the end of the 15th century, a name shared by several other small alleys in the old town, and explained by its slightly larger width compared to the numerous small alleys north of it. See also * List of streets and squares in Gamla stan This is an alphabetical list of streets, alley, squares, and other structures in Gamla stan, the old town of Stockholm, including the islands Stadsholmen, Helgeandsholmen, Strömsborg, and Riddarholmen. {{DEFAULTSORT:Streets And Squares In Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
