Ask Eva-Karin: Where it starts in the Old town?

numbering issues show up to have a look in my mailbox and I send them always on to Kristian Rosengren, surveyor at the city planning office.

Kristian Rosengren says that the direction of these streets have varied over the years, but after hand numbered from east to west. He tells us that the oldest source for this seems to be a adressnummerkarta from 1828.

by then stadsingenjörskontoret and was the basis for a proclamation from the governor four years later.

With these older decisions because ”turned” for example, Northern Dryckesgränd so late as 1941, " says Kristian Rosengren, who says that it is not entirely clear which part of the alley closest to the Castle. Especially as the northern lanes runs closest to parallel with the Slottsbacken.

Kristian Rosengren goes on to say that it has given priority to a unified direction for all lanes, closing from Skeppsbron, probably in order to facilitate the orientation.

Pelikansgränd is as well as the rest of the lanes between Skeppsbron and Österlånggatan numbered from Skeppsbron. Photo: Eva-Karin Gyllenberg

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