Tunnelgatan
Tunnelgatan ( German "The Tunnel Road " ) is a street in the Swedish capital Stockholm , which extends between the Sveavägen and the Brunkeberg tunnel . Before the partial renaming on the occasion of the Palme murder in 1986, the street reached to Norra Bantorget Square .
history
The Tunnelgatan was named after the Brunkeberg tunnel opened in 1886. The street's previous name, Barnhus trädgårdsgata ( Eng : "Children's Home Garden Street "), was named after a children's home that was located at what is now Norra Bantorget (Eng: "The Northern Railway Station"). In the 17th century there was a Reeperbahn there . The only remaining residential building in the street is on the corner of Tunnelgatan and Luntmakargatan and was built from 1894 to 1896. Opposite in Luntmakargatan 22-24 was the Grönwalls Bryggeri brewery until 1912 . At the intersection with Sveavägen at today's Sveavägen number 40 was the Pro Patria maternity home .
City 67 , a basic plan for the redevelopment of Stockholm's inner city, envisaged the expansion of the road into a four-lane main road, which should run over David Bagares gata , Stureplan square , Humlegårdsgatan street to the Norra Djurgården district . In the west, a connection to the Klarastrandsleden , part of the Stockholm north-south axis, was planned, which was to be reached by means of a bridge over the tracks north of Stockholm Central Station at about the level of Norra Bantorget . However, the plans were finally abandoned in the 1977 City Plan .
Renamed after Palme-Murder
The street has been linked to the murder of Olof Palme , the Swedish Prime Minister . The attack took place after Palme's visit to the cinema at Grand on February 28, 1986 at the confluence of Tunnelgatan with Sveavägen. After the shooting, the murderer fled down the stairs to Malmskillnadsgatan . In honor of Palme, the southwestern section of the street was renamed Olof Palmes gata (Eng .: "Olof-Palme-Straße"). The earlier name of this section, Tunnelgatan , can still be found in an inscription on the facade of a corner house in the Kvargen district on the corner of today's Olof Palmes gata on the busy Sveavägen street .
supporting documents
- Nils-Gustaf Stahre; Börje Westlund: Stockholm's gatunamn: inner city . 1st edition. Liber förlaget, Stockholm 1986, ISBN 91-38-90777-1 (Swedish).
- City 67: Stockholm: Principplan för den fortsatta citysaneringen framlagd i maj 1967 . Nordiska Bokhandeln, Stockholm 1967 (Swedish).
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Coordinates: 59 ° 20 '12.8 " N , 18 ° 3' 49.6" E