Drottninggatan
Drottninggatan (Queen Street) in
Composition
Forming a parallel street to Vasagatan and Sveavägen, Drottninggatan is intersected by (south to north) Fredsgatan, Jakobsgatan, Herkulesgatan, Vattugatan, Klarabergsgatan, Mäster Samuelsgatan, Bryggargatan, Gamla Brogatan, Kungsgatan, Apelbergsgatan, Olof Palmes Gata, Barnhusgatan, Adolf Fredriks Kyrkogata, Wallingatan, Kammakargatan, Tegnérgatan, Rådmansgatan, Kungstensgatan and Observatoriegatan.
The major part of the street is car-free and lined with numerous stores and shops, one of the largest being the Åhléns City department store. During summer, the street is often crowded with tourists.
History
The street was laid out in the 1630s and 1640s when the surrounding area was built on a rectilinear grid plan, a significant innovation in Stockholm's urban environment. It was originally named Stora Konungsgatan ("Great King's Street") and was later renamed as Drottninggatan in honour of Queen Christina, who ruled from 1632 to 1654.[1] Its name was paired with that of nearby Regeringsgatan ("Government Street"). This style of naming was relatively novel for Scandinavia, which did not have a tradition of streets named for the king or queen. It was most likely borrowed from Amsterdam or Copenhagen, where groups of streets were given names from the same semantic categories. Thus in Copenhagen's district of Christianshavn, laid out in 1618, three streets were named Kongens gade ("King's Street"), Dronninggaden ("Queen's Street") and Prinsensgade ("Prince's Street").[2]
On 11 December 2010, Drottninggatan was the site of the
On 7 April 2017, the street was again the site of
Notable residents
The playwright, novelist and essayist
Another famous resident was the 19th century banker and newspaper tycoon André Oscar Wallenberg, who lived with his family at Drottninggatan 66 until 1876.[8]
See also
References
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- ISBN 978-3-11-019706-8.
- ^ Borger, Julian (12 December 2010). "Stockholm bombing: authorities ponder impossibility of policing lone jihadists". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 15 December 2010. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
- ^ "- Regjeringen reagerer med avsky". Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (in Norwegian). 12 December 2010. Archived from the original on 16 December 2010. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
- ^ Doug Stanglin (7 April 2017). "Swedish PM calls deadly truck ramming a 'terror attack'". USA Today. Archived from the original on 7 April 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ Anderson, Christina (10 April 2017). "Sweden Mourns Stockholm Attack Victims; Suspect Is Formally Identified". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 16 October 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
- ^ Bjurstrom, C. G. Strindberg, p. 82, CUP Archive, 1971.
- ISBN 978-91-22-02102-5.