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Hello Eva-Karin!
I live near Piper Wall and the pretty baroque park in front of the City Hall in Kungsholmen. I have noticed that seven of the eight white statues have been removed for quite some time. What could have happened to them? Now there is only one lady left in all her white and naked splendor. I miss you. The little golden puti that are also in the park are usually removed during the winter, but the white ones have also been gone all summer.
Greetings Anna Ångström
Reply: You are not the only one who has missed the sculptures, which have been missing since the beginning of last year.
I learned that they have been collected for the simple reason that they have received many beatings in our sometimes cold climate.
The sculptures, which are not as old as you might think, are made in Italy and simply did not withstand the cold.
From a person who is a member of Arla Coldinuorden, who since 1807 owns the Piper Wall and the associated park towards Scheelegatan, I have been told that they are under repair, a repair that may take longer because the damage (ice blast) was quite extensive .
They will probably return in the spring of 2021 and if I have understood everything correctly, they will surely be collected in the winter for preventive purposes.
Hears!
Do you have any explanation why the alley of Trädgårdstvärgränd and Skeppar Olof in the old town are numbered in the wrong direction, that is, not from the castle?
Please Jan Gejel
Reply: By Kristian Rosengren, city planning office surveyor, I have been told that there are no clear answers to your question.
– All I know is that the addresses were officially decided in 1948, but it seems that the addresses in practice existed and were used much further back in time. And, as always, when it comes to old conditions, you can only speculate, says Kristian.
He adds that it can be assumed that Köpmangatan was a main street and that therefore it was more logical that the numbering started here and not end towards the castle.
Today’s premium: Köpmangatan is, by the way, the name of the oldest paved street in Stockholm: “In medio vici dicti køpmannagatu” (on the merchants’ street). Everything according to the name of the street in Stockholm.
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