Djurgårdsstaden
Djurgårdsstaden is a historic district on Djurgården in Stockholm and part of the Ekoparken National City Park .
history
Djurgårdsstaden (the zoo town) was also called Båtsmansstaden (the boatswain town) in earlier times . In 1646, on Queen Christina's initiative, a hospital and apartments for sailors were built here. The first building consisted of fourteen small houses that were used as hospital accommodation for boatmen, but none of them exist today. Today Djurgårdsstaden consists mainly of wooden houses from the 18th century. This acted as accommodation for the workers of the nearby shipyard, Djurgårdsvarvet , and the tar or pitch production on the neighboring island of Beckholmen (Pechinsel). In the 1930s, a few more residential houses in the style of neoclassicism were added. The narrow alleys and streets of Lilla Allmänna Gränd , Långa Gatan , Breda Gatan , Nordensiöldsgatan and many others all have their own story.
Today around 200 people live here and the ancient city district is perceived as an idyll that is only disturbed by the noise of the nearby “ Gröna Lund ” amusement park in summer. Djurgårdsstaden is a so-called reserve area (reservatsområde) d. H. a number of buildings in a preserved cultural and historical urban area, comparable to Stockholm's old town Gamla Stan , but much smaller.
Lilla Allmänna Gränd
As the name suggests was that lane open to the public, it got its name in 1806. At Lilla Allmänna Gränd is the falun red Mjölnargården (Muellerhof). The house originally had two wings and a small garden called "Gröna Lunden" (the green grove). On the other side of Långa Gatan is the Bellmanshuset (after the poet Carl Michael Bellman ). The Bellman House came into state ownership in 1990, it was pretty shabby and actually ripe for demolition. Nothing had been done for 250 years, which had the advantage that the “cultural camps” were intact. The building has been thoroughly restored; for example, contemporary wall and ceiling paintings were found under many layers of paint and wallpaper, which were carefully preserved. The restoration was rewarded in 2005 with the EU's Europa Nostra Award .
The tavern "Gröna Lund" , which Bellman sung about and which is believed to have given Tivoli its name, was also located here. Lilla Allmänna Gränd divides Tivoli in two halves, a small bridge connects the two sides.
Långa Gatan
The "Lange Straße" is the longest in the quarter, a full 150 meters. At the northwest end is the old main entrance to Tivoli Gröna Lund . Halfway down the street there is a small red house with the number 10 B , the front door is just 1.50 meters high. This is the house of the gravedigger (Dödsgrävarens hus). In the courtyard is a low building made of natural stone , the former morgue. The gravedigger's apartment dates from the 1770s and consists of just one room. You needed a gravedigger here, because Charles XI. create a cemetery for perished sailors.
Breda Gatan
The "Breite Straße" got its name in 1806 and it is certainly the small dimensions in Djurgårdsstaden that make this street appear wide. At the corner of Långa Gatan and Breda Gatan is the former bakery (Djurgårdsbagariet), built in 1852 by the baker Johan Thiel . Now bread is no longer baked, but an artist has his studio here. At the end of the Breda Gatan is the Skampålens torg .
Skampålens gate
The name of this place comes from the pillory (in the shape of a wooden boatswain) that once stood here. The convict was tied to it with a chain around his neck. The figure was stolen on an autumn night in 1849. A small red house from 1749 still stands here today. The window hatches have peepholes facing the square. Djurgården's home association is now based here.
Nordenskiöldsgatan
Behind Skampålens torg are the newer residential areas from the 1930s. The street is named after the explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld , who found the Northeast Passage with his ship Vega in 1878–1880 . The man behind this name was Salomon August Andrée , who failed in 1897 in his attempt to reach the North Pole with a balloon . It is also immortalized here in a street name.
Djurgårdsvarvet
This shipyard has existed since 1735 when an Ephraim Lothsack bought the area. Under him the shipyard experienced its heyday, hundreds of ships were built and repaired, among other things, Gustav III's ship Amphion was launched here in 1788 , which served him as high quarters in the war against Russia. Until the 1970s, rescue cruisers were built and maintained, then the ancestral shipyard fell into disrepair and today (2007) offers a sad sight with ailing corrugated iron buildings and a sagging quay. But there are realistic plans to redevelop the area and create a marine cultural center for the preservation of wooden boats. In 1980 the area of responsibility of the Djurgårdsvarvet company was expanded to include the "brokerage of used ships" by Arne Timmerling, who had previously worked at the shipyard for years. The company's headquarters are now at Fjällgatan 34 in Stockholm with a view of the old shipyard. Djurgårdsvarvet has now established itself as Scandinavia's largest ship broker in the field of small to medium-sized commercial ships and yachts.
literature
- Kungliga Djurgården, en kulturhistorisk vandring, W&W, 2007
- Stockholms gatunamn, Allmänna Förlaget, 1986
Web links
Coordinates: 59 ° 19 '23 " N , 18 ° 5' 57" E