In the quest for traces of my grandfather’s mother Gabriella I ended up on a missing street, right in the centre of Stockholm: Lutternsgatan.
There, in the neighborhood of Kåkenhusen near Stureplan, lived Gabriella with parents and siblings when the family come to the city in the 1870s.
In John ward husförhörslängd 1877 shows that approximately 300 persons resident in the Kåkenhusen. All probably poor. Lutternsgatan was at the end of the 1800s, the known as a förslummad street with shed and old träkåkar climbing on the mountain, oozing moisture and råttproblem. Narrow and steep went the street over the brunkeberg ridge, from Stureplan to Malmskillnadsgatan.
(1924) writes Emil Norlander (he Anderssonskans Kalle), himself grew up in the Lutternsgatan, if it is strange that an entire street can disappear, “so to speak with all”. He thinks that “It was a street for the boys! Mainly the stupbranta the hill, which was ideal as the toboggan run”.
Between 1905 and 1911 schaktades Lutternsgatan out through the brunkeberg ridge. In Svenska Dagbladet, writing in 1904 that, in the future, ”goes the big, wide main street, with its stately house, where the little one-way street once been, whose name you cannot even remember”. In 1908, described how järnspetten ”the naked mercilessly the small boningsrummens moderate splendor”.
How was it possible then for Gabriella? Like that, it seems. She seems to have lived poor at different addresses in Stockholm, as well as his own mother was abandoned by her husband and was trying to make a living for themselves and their children by yourself. But the data in the file says not everything about life.
Malin Nordgren is the editor for the Inside and likes to look at pictures from the Lutternsgatan and other places of interest in old Stockholm Publishers . Also read her columns about the butikslarmens marvelous unpredictability, and about to lose their children, but only almost .
