Stora Hoparegränd

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Stora Hoparegränd in April 2007.

Gate of number 6, the door is about 1,5 metres tall.

Stora Hoparegränd (Swedish: "Larger Hopare Alley") is an alley in Gamla stan, the old town of Stockholm, Sweden. Connecting Skeppsbron to Österlånggatan, it forms a parallel street to Skottgränd and Drakens gränd.

It appears in historical records as Mechiill hopares grennd (1550), Hopers grändh (1578), Michel Hopers grendh (1582), St. Hopare gr[änd] (1733)^[1]^[2]

Hoparegränd is named after a Michel Hoper (or Hopare) who owned a property in the alley during the first half of the 16th century. The man's widow, Brita, handed the property over to the husband of her nephew in 1566 in exchange for sustenance. The name is of Dutch or Frisian origin, except being a surname also indicating a profession, hooper (e.g. maker of barrels).^[1]^[2]

A film, Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket ("Stora Hoparegränd and Heaven") was released in 1949.^[3] ^[4]

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b (1992) "Innerstaden: Gamla stan", Stockholms gatunamn, 2nd ed., Stockholm: Kommittén för Stockholmsforskning, 72-73. ISBN 91-7031-042-4.
^ ^a ^b Fredrik Ulrik Wrangel (1912). Stockholmiana I-IV. Project Runeberg. Retrieved on 2007-01-26.
^ Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket. Movie Art Gallery (1949). Retrieved on 2007-01-26.
^ Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket (1949). IMDb (1949). Retrieved on 2007-01-26.