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Stockholm - Sweden
The capital of Sweden and the largest town of Scandinavia is Stockholm. She lies at the Baltic Sea and belongs to the most beautiful towns of the world.
The royal couple lives in Stockholm. Stockholm is headquarters of the Swedish parliament and the Swedish government, headquarters of a university. The headquarters of the Protestant and Roman Catholic church of Sweden is in Stockholm.
Story of Stockholm
There aren't any historical pieces of evidence for an existence of Stockholm before the middle of the 13th century. There were perhaps older defense plants to save the entry in the Mälarsee but a settlement cannot be proved. For the first time 1252, Stockholm was mentioned as an exhibition place in two documents of the Jarls Birger Magnusson which sometimes is mentioned as a founder of the town. Historical pieces of evidence are missing but also for this. But Stockholm developed under the government Birger Magnussons and the king's Magnus Ladulås into an important trade town within the following decades which was promoted primarily by contracts with the Hanseatic town Lübeck. 1289 Stockholm was described as a town in documents at 1270 and the town as the population richest town of Sweden was described. The first protected acceptances to the size of the town refer to the middle of the 15th century when Stockholm had about 1,000 households, that is approximately 5,000 to 6,000 inhabitant. The first Privilegienbrief also dates from the same century.
The main reason for the quick development of the town was its strategic situation. Stockholm dominated the entrance to the Mälarsee, this one, one for his part deduced economically important region because of the farming and iron production. The extension of the town was restricted to the island of Stadsholmen at that time. The island itself was, and the electrical powers essential far smaller than today around a third.
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