Birger Jarls torn. The roof and shutters are from the 18th century. Parts of the wall of the first three floors are from the 1520-30s.View of Riddarholmen from the Stockholm City Hall centred on Birger Jarls torn.
Birger Jarls torn (Swedish for Birger Jarl's Tower) is a defensive tower on the northwest corner of Riddarholmen, an islet in Gamla Stan, the old town of Stockholm.
The building has been named for Birger Jarl who traditionally is attributed as the founder of Stockholm, but it was built several hundred years later and the name is mostly the product of a 17th-century myth. Stockholm literally translates to "Log-Islet", and according to that myth the city was founded where a log drifting ashore from Lake Mälar.[1]
^"Justitiekanslern flyttar in i Birger Jarls torn" (in Swedish). Statens Fastighetsverk. 2007-02-06. Archived from the original on 2007-02-27. Retrieved 2007-05-02.
him including the street Birger Jarlsgatan on Norrmalm and the tower BirgerJarlsTorn on Riddarholmen. The Hotel BirgerJarl is located in Stockholm's...
List of streets and squares in Gamla stan Riddarholmsbron Hebbes Bro BirgerJarlstorn Mårtelius, Johan (1999). "Södra innerstaden". In Olof Hultin (ed.)...
durable materials than other buildings from that period. BirgerJarlstorn (The Tower Of BirgerJarl) was considered the oldest building in the entire city...
today central Stockholm. According to a 17th-century myth, the tower BirgerJarlstorn, often and erroneously said to be the oldest building in Stockholm...
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millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman BirgerJarl. The city serves as the county seat of Stockholm County. Stockholm is...
the Swedish king, by implication Anund Jacob. It has been suggested by Birger Nerman and others that King Anund Jacob was buried where King Ane's Stone...
July 2015. Retrieved 6 August 2021. Dagher, Sam (21 June 2011). "Libya City Torn by Tribal Feud". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 29...
on this site was a fortress with a keep built in the 13th century by BirgerJarl to defend the entry into Lake Mälaren. The fortress gradually grew to...
ancestors. The last time something similar happened was when Valdemar, JarlBirger's son, chose to bear his mother's coat of arms, the royal Danish leopards...
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