Sven Vintappares Gränd

Sven Vintappares Gränd (Swedish: "Sven Wine-Tapper's Alley") is a small alley in Gamla stan, the old town of Stockholm, Sweden. Stretching from Västerlånggatan to Stora Nygatan, it forms a parallel street to Överskärargränd and Didrik Ficks Gränd, while passing on the north side of the small square Sven Vintappares Torg.

First mentioned as "Swen wintapperes grendh" in 1588, the alley is most likely named after Sven Staffansson, a man said to be "Kung:e M:ttz tro tienere och wintappere" (e.g. "His Majesty's true servant and wine-tapper") and mentioned as having bought a property in the alley.cite book
title = Stockholms gatunamn | language = Swedish
edition = 2nd ed. | year = 1992
publisher = Kommittén för Stockholmsforskning
location = Stockholm | id = ISBN 91-7031-042-4
pages = 76 | chapter = Innerstaden: Gamla stan] His widow is known to have been given a house on Helgeandsholmen in 1620.cite web
title = Stockholmiana I-IV: Personnamn i nuvar. gators etc. namn
author = Fredrik Ulrik Wrangel | publisher = Project Runeberg
date = 1912 | accessdate = 2007-02-24
url = http://runeberg.org/wrangsto/0089.html]

The writer and poet Anna Maria Lenngren (1754-1817) mentions the alley in a poem describing "Mårten Holk", an anonymous man living in the alley who drinks only water, however joining the army where he is taught to drink everything but water while obtaining 'a smart coat and a grand desk'cite web
title = Samlade skaldeförsök | pages = 209
author = Anna Maria Lenngren| publisher = Project Runeberg
date = 1876 | accessdate = 2007-02-24
url = http://runeberg.org/lenngren/0235.html] cite web
title = Samlade skaldeförsök/Noter | pages = 265
author = Anna Maria Lenngren| publisher = Project Runeberg
date = 1876 | accessdate = 2007-02-24
url = http://runeberg.org/lenngren/0291.html] :

The author and actress Vera Siöcrona (1914-2003), who bravely battled the plans to demolish substantial parts of the old town and who published the book "Mitt Gamla stan" ("My Old Town") in 1966, settled in the alley in the middle of the 1940s, after her old address at Kolmätargränd had been demolished. The troubadour Evert Taube (1890-1976), who flirted her, mentions their encounter in his song "Vera i Vintappargränd".cite web
title = Finns Vera Siöcronas Vintappargränd?
author = Martin Stugart | publisher = Dagens Nyheter
date = 2005-10-08 | accessdate = 2007-02-25
url = http://www.dn.se/DNet/road/Classic/article/0/jsp/print.jsp?&a=467442]

References

See also

* List of streets and squares in Gamla stan

External links

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