Merchant Sven Strandberg was one of the most influential people in Norrtälje in the 1700-hundreds. He was born in Färila parish in Hälsingland, where his father was a vicar. Strandberg came to Norrtälje in the start of the 1720ies, when the city had no...

Besides the rifle factory there were also many tanneries in Norrtälje in the 1700’s. This was where hides from slaughtered cattle were made into leather pelts. Some of the tanneries were centrally located in the middle of the city, like this one by Tul...

Many of the rafle factory’s weapons have to be discarded and the war guild has sent out captain Carl Knutenberg to investigate further. He seems to think that it’s due to many of the employees being useless bunglers. No sooner has a farm help learnt to...

Apart from the church, the house owned by Merchant Svenn Strandberg was the only building made of stone after the Russian raids. The oldest house in Norrtälje vaktas av [email protected] som är Scout med 80 poäng. Ladda ner GeoStory-appen...

You have arrived in Norrtälje in the end of 1721. The 21 year long and extensive Nordic war is finally over. Around you are only rushly built wooden houses, since Russians burnt the city down in 1719.

German Heinrich Jancken was initially hired for Swedish service in Mecklenburg. In May 1622 Gustav Adolf the 2nd agreed to let him have the tax income from the Ortala Mill and Lyhundra precinct as well as Bro, Frötun, Väddö and Häverö ship districts, i...

Norrtälje rifle factory was located on the other side of the river from this location. In 1620 King Gustav Adolf II had already decided that weapon factories were to be built in Jönköping, Söderhamn, Örebro, Norrköping and Norrtälje. The rifle factory...

Councilmen in Norrtälje have written a letter to the king in an attempt to prevent the German immigrants from becoming councilmen and gain influence in the city. A representative for the German population is in turn calling the Swedes a sad bunch of pe...

There are no buildings remaining in Norrtälje from the 1600’s. The only thingsthat remain are the city plan and the streets. The network of streets in Norrtälje has grown naturally without much intervention or regulation. Small customs vaktas inte av...

You have arrived in Norrtälje in the the start of 1623. The city looks like most other villages in the Roslagen area - a collection of farms around stony hills and muddy walkways for cattle.