Gåstorget

Gåstorget (Swedish: "Goose Square") is a small public square in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden, situated between the two alleys Överskärargränd and Gåsgränd.

Starting in 1730 as a proposal from the City Architect J E Carlberg (1683-1773), turning spaces for horse-drawn vehicles were being created on various locations in the city, mostly for the purpose of facilitating fire fighting, and in 1796 such a space was created on the present location. Though the square wasn't given an official name, it was occasionally referred to as either "Gåsplan" ("Goose Plane") or "Gåsgtorget", and as proposal in 1981 to name the square after the troubadour Evert Taube (1890-1976) wasn't met with sympathy, the present name was made official instead.cite book
title = Stockholms gatunamn
edition = 2nd ed. | year = 1992
publisher = Kommittén för Stockholmsforskning
location = Stockholm | id = ISBN 91-7031-042-4
pages = 54 | chapter = Gamla stan]

On the square is a one metre tall bronze sculpture on a granite base, "Tungviktare" ("Heavyweights") from 1967 by the sculptor Sven Lundqvist (1918-).cite web
title = Konsten i Gamla stan | publisher = City of Stockholm
date = | accessdate = 2007-02-16
url = http://www.stockholm.se/Extern/Templates/Page.aspx?id=112004]

References

See also

* List of streets and squares in Gamla stan
* Sven Vintappares Torg

External links

* [http://www.minastockholmsbilder.se/tungviktare.htm Homepage of Inger Säfbom - Photo of the sculpture "Tungviktare".]