Blasieholmen

Wed 17th, morning, Stockholm


Blasieholmen is a peninsula on Norrmalm in Stockholm, west of central Stockholm and the east of the stream and the old town and extending south to Skeppsholmsbron. It was an island until the early 1700s and separated from Norrmalm of watercourse Nack Power.


There is a park along the road. That day is cloudy and very cold when we arrived at Blasieholmen, but I think it should be very beautiful in summer, and a popular place to relax and have fun.





About the history:

In the mid 1500s the island's name changed. The reason was that a naval station was moved to this island, which came to be known as Skeppsholmen (Skiipholman in 1565) and sometimes only Holmen. In the 1640s, construction of a new row at the current Skeppsholmen, which consequently also inherited the name. The two are old Skeppsholmen Blasieholmen lived side by side until 1670 when the latter took over the name. It is not entirely clear who that Blasius was that gave its name to the island.

The part of the current Blasieholmen where the National Museum is a former island whose earliest known name was Coin Holmen. In 1634 completed a church where the Admiralty behalf. Holmen was then called the Holmen Church. The church burned in 1822. In connection with establishing the National Museum (opened 1866), filling of the narrow channel that separated church from Holmen Blasieholmen. The years 1865-67 erected Blasieholmsgatan Church, which was demolished in 1964th.

The northeastern part of Blasieholmen used early as an area for reception and storage of fish. The decision to reserve the area for the handling of fish was taken by the town council in 1789 and repealed only 1871st. The block still retains the name of the modernized spelling Herring Hovet.