Storstad i oktober
It is the oldest square in Stockholm, the historical centre on which the medieval urban conglomeration gradually came into being. It is traditionally renowned for its annual Christmas market offering traditional handicrafts and food. Located in the centre of the plateau of Stadsholmenthe square never was the stylish show-piece occupying the centre of many other European cities during the Middle Ages; it was created gradually, buildings and blocks around the square, still sloping west, occasionally added haphazardly.
The exception being the Stock Exchange Building taking up the northern side of the square and concealing the Cathedral and the Royal Palace.
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Designed by Erik Palmstedt and built —, it replaced the town hall that had occupied the lot for several hundreds years before and subsequently been relocated first to the Bonde Palace and then to the present Court House in The plan of the building, French Rococo in style, is a trapeziumthe rounded corner of which greatly widened the flanking alleys. While the building is generally designed much like a private palacethe central pediment and the lantern-style cupola crowning the building underline its public status.
The closed first floor, accommodating the Swedish Academy, contrasts the openness of the ground floor—a contrast enhanced during the restoration in the s. The present well on the square was also designed by Palmstedt and built in connection to the new Stock Exchange Building. It dried up in due to land elevationhowever. It was relocated to Brunkebergstorg but moved back to its original location in the s and is today connected to the city water conduit.
Built by the merchant Hans Bremer in the s and originally featuring pointed cairnsNumber 3on the right side of Köpmangatan still features the original cross vaults and a German inscription in the entrance hall. He bought the building in which came to remain in the family's possession for more than a century. The cloverleaf-shaped gables were added in together with the blue livid colour and the Rococo portal.
The Dynasty's most prominent member was the merchant Claes Grill —leader of the East India Companyowner of several banks and many mining industries and shipping companies, and a great art collector. The building is today the headquarters of the Stockholm´s City Missionan independent Christian charity devoted to support homeless and exposed citizens with food, accommodation, and education, also running advisory bureaus and storstad i oktober elsewhere in the old town.
In the second hand shop on Number 5 are painted joists from the s displaying animals, flowers, and fruits. There are many such restored ceilings in Gamla stan, but this one is one of the few accessible to the general public. Storstad i oktober the first floor is the so-called Bullkyrkan "Bun Church" where the City Mission offers services every Sunday together with buns, sandwiches, and coffee.
Karl-Erik Kejne, who served in the church in the s, was quoted by public service radio saying working there was a grateful commission as the penniless and homeless crowded the church where other congregations were considerably more conspicuous by their absence. Until the midth century, the south side of the square was lined with wooden shops, in the spacious basements of which peasants kept their provisions and prepared meals.
Among the numerous historical tenants in the building was adventurer Filip Kern from MeissenSaxony. During the reign of Gustavus Adolphusthe Dutch merchant Abraham Cabiljauone of the founders and first mayors of Gothenburglived in the building.
The building was completely rebuilt in when the façades of the three buildings located south of the square were united to form the present façade. Occupying the three buildings in the block since is the Mäster Olofsgården "Homestead of Master Olof". It was founded as a youth centre by the priest Gabriel Grefberg in when Gamla stan was mostly a slumand the number of activities quickly grew to include elderly, mothers, scouts, workers, and many other groups.
Following a generous donation, the organisation was able to gather its activities to the present location in Today its services include studies in the history of the old town and the "Gamla stan Society" Gamla stan sällskapet. Undoubtedly, it was more likely built into the wall by an early proprietor and subsequently put back into storstad i oktober after each restoration.
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According to some sources, this was the location for the tavern Spanska druvan "The Spanish Grape"the oldest known tavern in Stockholm, which was according to tradition frequented by King John III when he wanted to mingle with commoners. The buildings on the west side are the only ones occupied by private persons. Number 22the green building on the left side of Kåkbrinkenis from but is standing on medieval walls.
It was occupied by the councillor Johan Berndes who developed the Swedish copper production in the 17th century, then by the Saxon Polycarpus Crumbügel, close friend to King Charles XI who caused the so-called Reduction when storstad i oktober important part of the Swedish nobility lost its estates for which he was raised to peerage as Cronhielm. It was supplied with a channel which is believed to have connected it to privies and kitchen sinks in the building.
Along with some wooden tubes found near Kornhamnstorgit is one of the few indications contradicting the traditional view of medieval Stockholm as a repulsive place where filth and refuse filled the streets. The buildings on Number were merged in the 17th century and subsequently named after Johan Eberhard Schantz, the secretary of Charles X Gustavus who also added the stepped gable and the grand portal on the left building.
Parts of the interior still reflect the luxury which surrounded the royal secretary. The house was, however, built no later thanwhen it appears in historical records. The former of the names refers to the councillor Bo Ribbing who gave the property to Schantz inwho added the stones the following year. The block on Number 14—16 is named after Æsculapiusthe son of Apollo and the storstad i oktober of medicinewhich reflects the presence of the "Raven Pharmacy" Apoteket Korpen at this address for more than years.
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While still present on Västerlånggatan just a few blocks away, the pharmacy was originally settled on Stortorget in when the court pharmacist Philip Schmidt offered not only medicine at this address, but also assorted sweets and mulled wine. In the alley Solgrändthe initials of the pharmacist in and his wife are still found on the wall. The pharmacy was relocated to its present address in Historical thoroughfares stretch from Stortorget in all cardinal directions : Kåkbrinken "Slope of the [Ramshackle] House" stretches west down to Västerlånggatan.