Historical fires of Stockholm

Stockholm has largely escaped looting and natural disasters, but the city's major scourges have been fires, which in the worst cases have wiped out entire neighborhoods.

However, aside from the misery and damage that large fires caused in Stockholm, there were also benefits, such as the planning of new districts, neighborhoods, and streets.

[1] Even during the medieval period, the city laws had regulations to prevent the occurrence of fires.

In one case in Skeppsholmen, there was a fire on salute batteries, and a certain number of cannon shots alerted the people in the town that it was burning.

A decree of December 18, 1728, established a series of measures to provide a warning in the event of a fire.

The sighting of unusual smoke was to be immediately reported to the master or mistress (under penalty of a fine), who would then pass it on to the churches to see if they agreed with the tower watch.

It supported the city's fire safety through grants to include water and better insurance policies for stone buildings.

In 1552, the ban against fire hazards within the city was tightened so that the wooden houses in the town center were to be demolished and replaced with stone.

In 1555, there was a fire on Stadsholmen's west side outside the new city wall, and all the houses from the Great Gråmunkegränd to Kornhamnstorg burned to the ground.

To help prevent the spread of fire, stringent rules were created to put pressure on landowners to build stone houses, rather than the more flammable wooden ones.

It broke out in Norrmalm, developed into a firestorm, and spread from Riddarfjärden (an arm of the lake Mälaren) to Södermalm.

Brandcontoiret in Stockholm intended to pay about 784,000 dollars in insurance money, but it lacked the funds to cover the full amount.

Only some of the affected homeowners had insured their houses, so the total cost of the fire was significantly higher than that sum.

One person who was hit hard by the fire was geologist and mineralogist Daniel Tilas, whose house was completely destroyed.

The fire demolished not only his home, but also the materials that he had gathered during 20 years of work and that would have been a Swedish and a global mineral history collection.

Fire officers were advised to act logically, and it was decided not to extinguish the house that burned down, but rather to "counter-fire with a vengeance" further away.

The fire started early in the morning in the Administrative Court's old house (Cruuska palace) and was caused by a guard master's negligent use of fuel.

The fire quickly spread to the southern side of the house and lit the roof of the old King's House (Wrangel Palace), destroying many antiques, including the nearly 300-year-old woodcut Blood Carlsbad painting that was stored in the Administrative Services Archives of Wrangel palace.

[12] Lightning striking church towers and tall buildings, which then acted as lighting conductors, were a common cause of fires.

Late in the evening of November 11, 1873, a fire broke out in the Palinska house, resulting in the deaths of several people.

This fire killed four people, and Heinrich Neuhaus' unique panorama of Stockholm was destroyed.

The event gave rise to the phrase "not since Eldkvarn burned" in the sense of "a very long time ago".

The fire, believed to have been caused by flour dust falling onto a gaslamp which ignited, started just before 17:01 two floors up in the northeast corner of the house no.

This time, Stockholm's church bells were tolled, reminiscent of the old methods of warning of a fire.

[18] The fire broke out on February 8, 1937, caused by a welder working in the attic above the fourth floor.

The men not only had to fight the fire, but also work under difficult conditions, including heavy ice (the temperature was 10 degrees below zero) and a wax layer of 3,500 kg, which began to melt and burn, and hindered the firefighters considerably.

In total, there were 70 people on the site, including managers, the fire chief, firefighters, and teachers from officers' school.

On 28 September 1990, there was a large fire in the iron trade, John Wall's premises at the corner of Drottninggatan and Slöjdgatan.

The fire destroyed the historic hardware store and a large part of the settlement in the district of Adam and Eve.

At two o'clock on the night of June 5, 2008, a fire broke out on the third floor of Town Hall's west wing.