Talk:History of Stockholm

I don't see why we need a separate History of Stockholm page when nobody has done much work on this or the main Stockholm page. Tfine80 01:41, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Well, better late than never! :) I just expanded the origin section.  However, the section apparently needs more references and it should, IMHO, include information on the Greyfriars monastery and some related to the connection with the city of Birka (both cities supposedly being associated with foreign merchants and trade rather than Vikings (who didn't found cities)).  Maybe a template of some sort should be added to the section to inform of these shortcomings?  Or do we just wait for someone to add the information?
 * / Mats Halldin (talk) 13:50, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Outdated caption
Hi, I just like to point out that the picture under the headline "20:th century" with the text

"Stureplan, the centre of the Stockholm nightlife, is also part of the most expensive shopping district in the city."

is actually a picture of the "Sergelfontänen", and not Stureplan.


 * Your are so right, I've updated the caption.
 * / Mats Halldin (talk) 15:46, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Early history, unsourced text

 * Stockholm developed into an important trade city in the following decades, advanced through relations with Lübeck of the Hanseatic league. The city was swamped by German immigrants who became the important craftsmen and traders. The king of Sweden stimulated all Germans to become Swedish and speak Swedish, a policy which was successful. Most German immigrants originated from Westphalia. In 1270 Stockholm appears in historical documents as a city and in 1289 it was described as the most populated city in the Swedish region. The first trustworthy estimate of the size of city comes from the middle of the 15th century, giving Stockholm about one thousand households and five to six thousand residents.

There is probably nothing wrong with this contribution, except that it lacks sources. As I started an expansion of the section in question it was easier for me to simply scrap this part.

/ Mats Halldin (talk) 18:34, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Long article
I've considerably expanded this article, and obviously it is getting to long. I hope to split it into several articles once I've gathered enough information about the various periods. At this time the article is sort of an extremely long stub.

/ Mats Halldin (talk) 19:27, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Better do not use this pic to illustrate Brunkeberg 1471
This picture is used in many wikipedias to illustrate the aftermath of the Battle at Brunkeberg 1471 or the Danish-Swedish war of 1470/71. In 1471 the victorous Sten Sture was around 20 or 21 years old. The Sten Sture in this picture, however, looks much older. More likely this picture illustrates Sten Stures welcome in Stockholm in 1501... thirty years later when he was around 50yo. --Roksanna (talk) 07:43, 26 April 2015 (UTC)