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70-403: The blocks along the street are elongated but only a few meters in width; those on the eastern side oriented lengthwise, and those on the western crosswise. Only four blocks thus forms the eastern side of the street while some 20 are lined-up along the western side. Most (but not all) of the front doors of the buildings are located either on the quiet Prästgatan , the parallel street passing along

140-462: A bell-ringer built there during the 16th century. The four small buildings were demolished in 1708 to make room for the parsonage which is still present. Because the parsons of the German Church ("Tyska kyrkan") were housed near the street, the southern part of it was called Tyska Prästgatan ("The German Priest's Street") from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century while the northern part

210-463: A beautiful lady who brought the captain down to her palace under the waves. In return for favourable winds she had the captain promise to deliver a letter to a Mr. Måns on Västerlånggatan immediately on his return. Back in Stockholm, however, the captain forgot his promise and choose to unship his goods before delivering the letter. When he finally went to deliver it, he was told the only Mr. Måns in

280-488: A hint of what the neighbourhood used to be before WW2 when the circular courtyard, Brantingtorget , was created and the three alleys stretched much further west. Just east of the crossing between Storkyrkobrinken and Västerlånggatan, the main northern city gate used to stand during the Middle Ages. At the time a narrow alley, the street was widened during the 1650s in order to create a more stately connection between

350-434: A name subject to scholarly disputes. Professor Nils Ahnlund (1889–1957), interpreted it as referring to the area north of a church in popular beliefs being known as " latus plagæ damnatæ " ("the northern side of the damned") and therefore a place of disgrace suitable for suicides and criminals, a theory only corroborated by the location of the city executioner in the area. This theory was however questioned in several essays by

420-412: A narrow and elongated backyard passing through the block. Various properties in the block have been merged and partitioned repeatedly over several centuries, and though virtually all traces of the medieval neighbourhood are gone, the present façade is decorated with bits and pieces of older buildings; placed in niches in the 1930s when the present shop front was built. The trader Thomas Funck owned most of

490-405: A wall 0.6 metres under the current street just in front of the corner between Tyska Stallplan and Prästgatan. In the corner of Prästgatan and Kåkbrinken is a runestone in the wall, carrying the inscription "Torsten and Frögunn had the stone erected after their son." The stone was probably brought to Stockholm to be used as building material, from where is not known. As the female name Frögunn

560-711: A wall by the southern city gate near Slussen, is today kept in the Museum of Medieval Stockholm . It contains the words "Karl and Adisla had [this stone] erected [after] Arnsil, [their] father" and is similar in style to stones found in Södermanland , south of Stockholm. The third runestone, U 54 , is today lost but was once located in a stairway in the church Riddarholmskyrkan . 59°19′37.3″N 18°04′13.0″E  /  59.327028°N 18.070278°E  / 59.327028; 18.070278 Salviigr%C3%A4nd Salviigränd ( Swedish for 'Alley of Salvius')

630-498: Is a preserved interior from 1924, and the pharmacy only offers factory-made medicine, except for the Christmas mustard made after its own recipe. The café Gråmunken on Number 18 is a well-established café, since several generations renowned for the medieval vaults in the basement. While a gravel ridge composes most of the soil in the surrounding area, the block behind the café is built on solid rock located above sea level during

700-490: Is an alley in Gamla stan , the old town in central Stockholm , Sweden . Stretching from Västerlånggatan to Myntgatan , it is the northernmost alley of the former street. The alley is named after the diplomat and Councillor Johan Adler Salvius (1590–1652) ( Welb-Johan Adler Salvij gränd , 1641; Salvij grendhen , 1652) who made a fortune marrying the widow of the goldsmith Lorens Hartman and who owned several properties in

770-416: Is known as a pagan name, the stone is believed to be from around 1000, the stone thus being about 200 years older than the city. A laser range scanner analysis made in 2002, showed variations in stroke patterns in the grooves of the stone, and that the stone was probably carved by a master carver and an apprentice. It's one of three runestones found in the old town: A second, U 274 , originally located in

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840-422: Is located on Number 40 , Åströms Kappaffär. The shop was founded in 1911, and the current owner, Eva Sjölund, have been working there since 1979, just like her mother and grandmother. On the address was the milliner's shop of Carolina Lindström , founded in 1842 and during many years the oldest in town. She was arguably one of the most enterprising women in the city, the habit of working late at night giving her

910-469: Is often misinterpreted as indicating the delimitation of the two provinces, but is only informing of an old border between two historical dioceses . The present 19th century façade of Number 28 conceals the former residence of Jöran Persson (1530–1568), the Machiavellian advisor of King Eric XIV , who used his influence well and owned a series of buildings in the city, including Number 30. He

980-558: The Neo-Renaissance sgraffito façade was created. On number 13 above the windows on the first floor, are the heads of Victor Emanuel II , Garibaldi and Cavour , obviously added by someone favourably disposed towards the Italian unification . The entire block is hiding the northern end of Prästgatan , one of the few blind ends of the old town, which was historically known as Helvetesgränd ("Alley of Hell"), either because

1050-467: The Stock Exchange at Stortorget . Still preserved are the cast iron columns and the archivolt of the portico, and the pilasters and vaults of the entrance and staircase. On the right side is a boundary plate displaying the coat of arms of the provinces Uppland and Södermanland , the message of which, UPLANDz och SUDERMANNALANDz SKILLNAD ("Uppland's and Södermanland's difference"),

1120-465: The Viking Age , and hopefully future excavations will be able to further document the earliest history of the area. Archaeological excavations in the street just outside Number 18 have unveiled several layers of earlier street levels, with traces of paved streets found a metre below the present pavement. North of Number 18 is Stora Gråmunkegränd ("Great Grayfriars Alley"), which used to lead from

1190-399: The 17th century and featuring a so-called Italian , a low storey dividing the roof into a lower and an upper part and usually containing either rooms for servants or a promenade floor with a panoramic view over the city. The Art Nouveau glazed façade on Number 22 is from 1907 and the building, slightly less than five metres wide, is arguably the narrowest hotel in town. However inviting,

1260-506: The 17th century, and, as the neighbourhood have been considerably altered while poorly documented, only the identity of the man carrying the name in question remains irrefutable. On the second floor on number 1, the only building in that block not part of the Parliament administration, is a suite of rooms created by Louis Masreliez for the tradesman and bachelor Wilhelm Schwardz in 1795. Sensuously dressed up in pastel, grey, and gold,

1330-548: The 19th century. On Number 37 was the home of Olof Palme , former PM assassinated in 1986, and unconfirmed reports have it his murderer was seen lurking in the street shortly before the assassination. On the opposite side is the vault leading to Yxsmedsgränd , a name literally meaning "Axe Blacksmith's Alley" but probably a corruption of the name Yskeme owned by a man living in the alley and possibly of Estonian or Finnish origin. There used to be dozens of coat shops in central Stockholm, but today only two remain, one of which

1400-640: The Danes would take the city. One of the oldest second-hand bookshops in Sweden, Aspingtons Antikvariat, was located here 1978–2001. The building is today owned by the trade union for the employees of the Customs and Coastguard ( Tull-Kust ). Number 63 , including its Neo-Rococo ornaments and green shutters, is the family heirloom of the Torndahls. The building was bought by the goldsmith Per Gustaf Torndahl in

1470-593: The Greyfriars islet ( Riddarholmen ) to the defensive tower on the east side of Västerlånggatan. South of the café is Helga Lekamens Gränd ("Alley of the Holy Body [of Christ]"), named after an influential guild existent from the 15th century to the Reformation (1520s). Between these two alleys is a barred alley. Behind the café and its rainbow flag on Number 19 is the story of one of the oldest shops in

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1540-502: The Masonry Master's Guild ( Murmestare Embetet i Stockholm ), founded in the old town in 1487, and today using the building for their extensive archive. One of the inhabitants was Pierre Chanut and his guest René Descartes . Two of the old proprietors have given their names to establishment residing in the building; the former confectioner Drottning Kristina facing the street and the banqueting rooms von der Lindeska valven in

1610-513: The Royal Palace and the palaces on Riddarholmen . On Number 16 is the gilded raven of Apoteket Korpen ("The Raven pharmacy") founded in 1674 and located on Stortorget during 250 years. It was one of the few and one of the oldest pharmacies in Stockholm, a city with all to few doctors and frequently ravaged by epidemics, flues, and plague, pestilences thought to be cured using frogs, snakes, human fat, and pulverized mummies. Today there

1680-401: The alley. At the time the alley included parts of today's Myntgatan, and Salvius also owned buildings on the opposite side of Myntgatan where today Kanslihuset (the "Chancellery House") is found. The first element of the name, Salvii , is Latin genitive meaning Salvius' (e.g. "...of Salvius"). It remains uncertain, however, which alley was actually referred to using the present name in

1750-596: The area brilliantly described by the troubadour Carl Michael Bellman . On Number 1–5 is Demokrativerkstaden ("Democracy Workshop"), a pedagogical role-playing environment operated by the Riksdag offering young school children the chance to act as MPs for a few hours. Salviigränd , named after Johan Adler Salvius (1590–1652), the Swedish main negotiator during the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, used to stretch down to

1820-468: The attic were rebuilt in the 20th century. On Number 79 is the restaurant Mårten Trotzig, named after Mårten Trotzigs Gränd , the narrowest alley in the old town passing next to it, in its turn named after the merchant Mårten Trotzig (1559–1617) who owned a building in the alley. In the restaurant is an excavated medieval refuse chute once accessed through an exterior door. The Danish King Christian II entered Stockholm on September 7, 1520, following

1890-486: The balls at the Royal Palace. In what was the southern building, the wine dealer Mårten Hartman opened the tavern Källaren Rostock in 1643, an establishment much later featuring in the 45th epistle of Carl Michael Bellman . It retells the story of how Corporal Mollberg while attending the tavern got into trouble for playing the reel (called polska in Swedish, e.g. "a polish") of the Queen of Poland, and thus stirred up

1960-425: The basement Number 70 is a medieval building but the exterior was created in the early 17th century. On the front facing Funckens Gränd are the initials of former owners: L L D L 1627 , Lydert Lang and Dorotea Lang. The present building on Number 72–74 is a product of the merging of two older buildings during the 20th century. In medieval times, these two buildings were separated by an alley of which remains

2030-416: The block. The painter Carl Larsson was born here in 1853. While he today cherished for his watercolours of bright and colourful idyllic family sceneries, his gloomy childhood in the old town, caused him to live his life with melancholy constantly at hand. The numbers of Västerlånggatan are continuous with those of Järntorget, so the addresses on the square are numbered 81–85 on the north side, and 78–84 on

2100-526: The block; one was Arnold Helsing, the other his journeyman Ignatius Meuer, who immigrated to Stockholm from Thuringia , Germany, in 1610 and 21 years old took over the printing house. Before Ignatius died 83 years old, the nine presses in his workshop had produced the Ordinari Post-Tijdender , the oldest newspaper in the world, and the Bible of Charles X in Swedish. Ignatius and the son of

2170-429: The boutiques, the medieval gables and the later additions, the street thus preserving its old ways — still offering its musicians to Stockholmers hurrying to work in the morning; blustering pub-crawlers still vexing stoic dwellers, and the old forged iron signs continuing to ignore the neon signs still tempting passers-by with all sorts of gadgets. Gone are, however, the filth, funeral processions, and prostitution in

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2240-447: The building safeguards stories of both local and national heroes: During the 18th century a number of taverns succeeded each other's on the address, one of which was the "Deft & Done" ( Flink & Färdig ), named after the inscription on one of the emergency coins of King Charles XII , and owned a by Catharina Burman, a woman renowned for "intoxication, oaths, scolding, and curses". A hundred years prior to this two printers resided in

2310-423: The building was a cat, which upon reading the letter fell into tears, scratched the captain to death before jumping the window only to get turned into stone. A historian is likely to give the alternative explanation the cats are in fact Rococo -style martens added to the medieval building by the furrier Nikolaus Björk in the 1740s, but that's another story. The alley passing through the building, Gåsgränd , and

2380-417: The buildings in the neighbourhood in the 17th century, why he gave the alley its name. Number 76 , mentioned together with the property on the opposite side of the block as "both buildings of late Funck", probably referring to one of the sons of the former. A medieval alley once passed through the building on Number 78 , and the present building is partly from the early 17th century, while the shop windows and

2450-696: The city executioner resided in the area or because the entire neighbourhood is located north of the cathedral (e.g. in Norse folklore associated with the "Kingdom of the Dead"). On the opposite side, Number 8–14 , is another block occupied by the offices of the Riksdag. The intact front hide the semi-detached interior where a few clerks are sitting next to fresco paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries and sculpted beams featuring animals. The three small vaults and their respective street signs — Klockgjutargränd , Kolmätargränd , Stenbastugränd — gives

2520-520: The city, and Södermanland , south of the city. During the 15th century, the street became the paved artery road it still is today, with dwellings and shops on either side. During the Middle Ages and the Vasa era , the southern part of the street formed part of the district centred on Järntorget , at the time the most prominent quarters in the city inhabited by influential merchants such as Mårten Trotzig, Mårten Leuhusen and Erik Larsson von der Linde. Along

2590-503: The eastern side, or in one of the numerous alleys on the street's western side. The intact façades of the northernmost blocks are hiding the semi-detached offices of the Riksdag . To the south of those are the remaining numerous and very narrow blocks and alleys which before the great fire of 1625 occupied the entire western side of the street. Today renowned as one of Gamla stan's most picturesque and busy tourist magnets, Västerlånggatan

2660-451: The elegant Gustavian Classicism interiors features lighted candles, cut-glass chandeliers, taffeta curtains, and friezes and medallions displaying a multitude of classical gods and figures, all perfectly restored by the current owner, the insurance company Skandia . 59°19′35″N 18°04′06″E  /  59.32639°N 18.06833°E  / 59.32639; 18.06833 This Stockholm road or road transport-related article

2730-518: The extension. The painter Carl Larsson (1853–1919) was born in a building nearby. The arrangement of paving stones in the street on the southern slope show the extent of the Blackfriars monastery located on the northern side of the street from the coronation of King Magnus Eriksson in 1336 to the Reformation (around 1520–1530). An archaeological excavation in 1993 revealed the corner of

2800-421: The former printer eventually gave their names to the two alley flanking the hotel: Ignatiigränd and Göran Hälsinges Gränd , the latter is otherwise mostly remembered through the lyrics of the troubadour Carl Michael Bellman who describes the alley as renowned for its prostitutes. On Number 24 and 24 A are two friezes accompanied by a legend — A ship got stuck in a lull but was miraculously saved by

2870-535: The glory"), and the initials of the Holstein cloth trader Peter Hanssen and his wife Anna Steker: The couple, which restored the building during the 1660s, were very rich and, among other things, donated the pulpit still found in the German Church . Number 68 , the so-called von der Linde House was built by Erik Larsson in 1633. He had made a fortune exporting Swedish iron and importing wine and, serving as an economical advisor to King Gustavus II Adolphus ,

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2940-540: The historian Lizzie Carlsson , who instead concluded that during the Middle Ages Helvetet was used all over Sweden for farmyards as well as other structures with a northern location. A theory, she argues, is confirmed by the fact that the "kingdom of the dead" in norse folklore is located to the north. While the presence of more distinguished residences in the Helvetet neighbourhood can be explained by

3010-516: The late 1970s; the northern section packed with hotels, while the remaining street was renowned for its milliner 's shops including up to 30 coat shops. During the later half of the 20th century however, the scene started to change, increasing rents forcing many old shops to shut down or relocate, the oldest after more than 250 years in business, subsequently replaced by more or less fitting successors marketing tourist-oriented gewgaws. Notwithstanding, Swedes and tourists alike still love to mingle among

3080-413: The mid 19th century and his shop was continued by his widow, Ida Tekla Sabina Cunigunda who also added the ornaments. The grandchildren of Gustaf and Ida are still carefully minding the building and operating the handicraft shop still present on the address. Barely visible in the red sandstone cartouche of the portal of Number 65 is a Christogram , IHS , the maxim SOLI DEI GLORIA ("To God alone

3150-412: The neighbourhood used to be the quarters of the 'printed word', the part of the city where both the books and their consumers were located, and were people from other parts of the country would come to find and talk about the latest novels. Above street level and behind the intact front, Number 7–17 are the semi-detached offices of the Riksdag. On number 7 are Roman letters displaying the year 1888 when

3220-483: The nick "The Evening Star" and, in 1844, she became rich as she got to know about the death of King Charles XIV before her competitors and bought all the crapes and other mourning clothes in the city. She even survived her husband, a gambling spice trader who nearly bankrupted the family, and pursued her business for 50 years until her death. Johan Hoghusen, a wine trader who immigrated from Westphalia in 1620, lived on Number 44 , just as did his son and namesake who

3290-423: The old town. Prästgatan forms a parallel street to Västerlånggatan , Trångsund , Skomakargatan , and Svartmangatan . It is intercepted by Storkyrkobrinken , Ankargränd , Spektens Gränd , Solgränd , Kåkbrinken , Tyska Brinken , Tyska Stallplan , Mårten Trotzigs Gränd , and Norra Benickebrinken . Prästegathen (1586) The street was given its name because of the residences of three chaplains and

3360-560: The one south of it, Överskärargränd , both lead to Gåstorget , one of the smallest squares in Stockholm. On Number 27 is the House of Palmstedt , the private home of Erik Palmstedt , the great architect of the closing 18th century. Designed in 1801, but still uncompleted by the time for his death two years later, the façade reflects the architect's late reduced style, lighter than the Custom House at Skeppsbron but tighter than

3430-399: The overcrowded conditions within the city walls, the name during medieval times did not have the pejorative meaning it has today, thus making the hypothesis credible. The extension south of Tyska Stallplan was named Stenbergs gränd ("Alley of Stenberg") after Crown Equerry Antonius von Steinberg (–1675), favourite of Queen Christina (1626–1689) and owner of the entire block north of

3500-461: The portal are two cartouches displaying inscriptions in German: The property was later bought by Queen Christina to her half-brother, Gustav, Count of Vasaborg , the illegitimate child of Gustavus Adolphus, who had a wing added facing the square on opposite side of block. The names of all proprietors, historical and present, are engraved on a slate behind the front door, a list ending with

3570-432: The portal still features the pear-shaped pearl over the front door which was the owner's mark of the silk trader Henric Meurman. He created a small-ware shop in the 1660s, decorating the portal with fruit garlands and a bow resembling those on the House of Knights , following a common practice for burghers to copy decorations found on prominent palaces. The current building on Number 54 was, according to an inscription on

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3640-568: The portal, completed in 1662, but parts of the building are considerably older, the first owner, a Diedrik Skekerman from Lübeck , appearing in historical records as a lodger and innkeeper in 1589-1597. The portal is made of red limestone and possibly designed by Nicodemus Tessin the Elder . In the basement of the building, five metres under street level, a sealed round arched tunnel have been found, thought to have led under Västerlånggatan to Prästgatan and to have been built as an escape route in case

3710-407: The ranks. From the middle of the 19th century, the commercial centre of Stockholm was transplanted north of the old town that gradually started to transform into a slum district. Västerlånggatan however escaped this fate, as it was connected to Drottninggatan by the bridge Riksbron in 1907, and the shops along the street were updated. The medieval street façades were transformed in accordance to

3780-421: The rest of the street craftsmen had their small workshops, and the northernmost section, stretching between Mynttorget and Storkyrkobrinken , was called Stadssmedjegatan ("City's Smith's Street"), because the blacksmiths who were confined outside the city because of the danger of fire had their headquarters there. During the 17th century this section was instead inhabited by goldsmiths and accordingly climbed

3850-461: The southern. 59°19′27.9″N 18°04′11.9″E  /  59.324417°N 18.069972°E  / 59.324417; 18.069972 Pr%C3%A4stgatan Prästgatan ( Swedish : "The Priest's Street") is a street in Gamla stan , the old town in central Stockholm , Sweden , stretching from a cul-de-sac west of the Royal Palace to the street Österlånggatan in the southern corner of

3920-623: The surrender of Christina Gyllenstierna , the widow queen of Sten Sture the Younger , and became king of Sweden on November 1, as such he choose not to occupy the Royal Palace , but to stay with the German merchant Gorius Holst who lived in this building during the week preceding the Stockholm Bloodbath . Much of the present block was created by the secretary of King Eric XIV , Erik Göransson Tegel, who married Margareta Dantzeville,

3990-419: The taste of the day; plaster ornaments and cast iron colonettes mail-ordered from Germany replaced the medieval fronts, resulting in the present large shop windows usually displaying the well-preserved interiors from the later part of that century while concealing the often still intact medieval cores of the buildings. Many of the boutiques founded during the 19th and early 20th century, were still around until

4060-414: The temper of the gentlemen around him because of the disputed partition of Poland . The café on Number 49 boasts an interior dating back to the 14th century. The building is a brilliant example of primitive construction works could be during the Middle Ages — the bricked walls of the interior are the gables of the neighbouring buildings, still displaying what once was the doors and windows facing

4130-463: The then unbuilt lot — the proprietor simply built a façade towards the street and added a roof. On the backside are blocks of granite, probably part of the medieval wall that passed through the present block. On the second floor are ceilings and flooring from the 17th century, and in the basement a medieval cobbled stone floor. Number 52 was called Sidenhuset Pärlan ("silk house the Pearl") and

4200-404: The water. On the left corner (Number 1) is a suite of rooms featuring a neoclassical interior from 1795 restored to its original state, sumptuously furnished and richly decorated with friezes and medallions. On Number 6 was until recently the bookstore Hemlins bokhandel . It was founded in 1864 and taken over by Emil Hemlin in the 1880s. From the late 18th century and well into modern times,

4270-414: The west") appended. The current name was officially established in 1885. Originally the street was little more than a pathway passing just outside the city's western wall and following the shoreline, as the gently meandering street still reminds us. It did however connect the northern city gate, Norrbro , with the southern, Söderbro , and it was thus the main route between Uppland , the province north of

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4340-463: The widow of Reinhold Leuhusen who owned a building here. Tegel, mostly remembered for having written history books but who had more than one string to his bow and also worked as a spy in Denmark and Poland, started to buy neighbouring properties in order to enlarge his home, which gave the entire block a common history. An archaeological excavation in 1992 unveiled a wall and a vault in the backyard of

4410-438: The world: The ironmonger's shop of C J Bergman founded in 1654, established on this address in 1712, and taken over by Bergman in 1842. When discontinued in the early 1980s, it was the last institution of the many blacksmiths' shops and workshops once occupying the entire neighbourhood and offering horseshoes, swords, guns, pots, and nails. The roof of the building is a Säteritak — a Swedish-style mansion roof introduced in

4480-416: Was called Svenska Prästgatan ("The Swedish Priest's Street"). The name revision of 1885, led to the name Prästgatan being used for the street's northern and southern extensions as well. Before this, the north part of the street Storkyrkobrinken was known as Helvetesgränd ("Alley of Hell"), just like the surrounding area north and west of the cathedral Storkyrkan was referred to as Helvetet ( Hell ),

4550-488: Was discovered on Number 29 , today exposed over the shop windows. The eleven pointed arches and the bricked herringbone pattern, dates back to the 14th century, while the glazed window are later additions — the first glazier in Stockholm is mentioned in 1421 and glass was still luxury at the time, so these windows were shut using wooden shutters, some rays of light possibly passing in through scraped leather or panes of bones. The cast iron columns on street-level are from

4620-468: Was eventually raised to peerage under the name von der Linde . The bared brick wall of the Dutch Renaissance façade is richly decorated with sandstone ornaments cut by Aris Claesz from Haarlem , including the sumptuous portal. The two heads in the portico symbolizes Mercury and Neptune and in the arms of Erik Larsson are two linden which he planted on his homestead at Lovön . Flanking

4690-405: Was for many centuries one of the major streets of Stockholm together with Österlånggatan , both of which ran outside the city walls. During the 15th century, they were both called Allmänningsgatan ("The Common Street") or Långa gatan ("The long street"), occasionally in combination, like Allmenninx longe gathen or longe Almenninx gathen in 1514, and/or with a suffix such as västan till ("to

4760-421: Was raised to peerage and appointed county governor, and for several centuries the building continued to be leavened by the smells of liquor. The milliner's shop Lamberg, founded in 1877 by the then 21 years old Augusta Lamberg from Gothenburg , was located over the punch manufacture of J G Grönstedt in the basement, and, as the story goes, the vapours from the latter attracted customers to the former. The building

4830-461: Was redesigned in the 18th century in the Rococo manners of J W Dinling, the rounded corners of which are still found in the courtyard and on the first floor. Number 45 are two merged building situated over large medieval cellars. For more than a hundred years, the glove factory of Carl Malmberg, founded in 1877, was located on this address, as a royal purveyor delivering the kid gloves required at

4900-409: Was removed and his estates confiscated following the death of the king. On either side of the building are the alleys Sven Vintappares Gränd and Didrik Ficks Gränd , the former named after the wine-tapper of the king and the latter named after a German tenant, Didrich Fischer, in a property owned by the son of Jöran Persson, Erik Jöransson Tegel. During a restoration in 1946, a medieval bricked wall

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