Storkyrkobrinken

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Old names^[1]


1422	sancte nicolauese port Gate of Saint Nicholas
1436*	S:t Laurentii gränd St Lawrence Alley
1520	Scolestue backen School Cottage Slope
1571*	skolstuffue grenden School Cottage Alley
1596	Kyrkobrinken Church Slope
1597	S. Niclaes Brinck St Nicholas Slope
1637	Slottsgatan Palace Street
1650	Store kyrke brincken Big Church Slope
1651	Svenska Kyrkobrinken Swedish Church Slope
1733	Scholstugu gr[änd] School Cottage Alley
1771	Storkyrko Brinken Big Church Slope
* Section west of Västerlånggatan.
Parallel streets
Salviigränd Stora Gråmunkegränd
Crossing streets
Högvaktsterassen Trångsund Prästgatan Västerlånggatan Myntgatan

Storkyrkobrinken (Swedish: "Big Church Slope") is a street in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden, leading from Högvaktsterrassen ("Main Guard Terrace") near the Royal Palace down to Myntgatan ("Coin Street") and Riddarhustorget ("Knight's House Square").

1 History
2 References
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] History

The street's present name stems from the vicinity to the cathedral Storkyrkan.

As the crossing street Västerlånggatan during the Middle Ages was the street passing outside the city walls on the city's west side, a city gate was found over Storkyrkobrinken east the former.

St Nicholas of Myra (-350), patron saint of merchants and seamen, had an idol in the street to which people would offer before shipping expeditions, and a chaplain in the 1670s explains both the church, the street, and the gate was named after the saint until the 1570s, the idol being destroyed earlier the same century.

During the first half of the 15th century the western part of the street was named after Saint Lawrence, and a century later after the school (skolstuga literally translates into "School cottage") built in the street in 1431.

Names such as Riddargatan ("Knight's Street") and Riddarhusgatan ("Knight's House Street") were used during the 17th century.^[1]