Tullgränd [SEP] named after
Tullgränd
Tullgränd (Swedish: "Customs Alley") is an alley in Gamla stan, the old town of Stockholm, Sweden, connecting Skeppsbron to Österlånggatan. It forms a parallel street to Packhusgränd and Norra Bankogränd.
The alley appears in historical records as "Tollhuus grenden" in 1626, "stora Tullhus gränden" in 1693, "Store Siötullsgränden" in 1704, "Stora Tull gr"["änd"] in 1733, and finally as "Tullgränd" in 1885. The name is derived from Tullhuset ("the Customs
their sessions in February 1919, was told the old restaurateur was about to retire and would discontinue the business, Zorn bought for SEK 150,000, had it restored for SEK 250,000, and later bequeathed it to the Swedish Academy together with a requirement the latter should appoint the members of a foundation which should manage the property and use the annual yield to award a prominent poet the prize "Bellmanpriset".
An archaeological excavation in 1993, in the intersection with Prästgatan and Tullgränd just south of Södra Benickebrinken, unveiled a bricked wall