Stockholm City Hall
Stockholm City Hall Civic Courtyard, Sweden. Sept. 30, 2019
Stockholm City Hall, with its spire featuring the golden Three Crowns, is one of the most famous silhouettes in Stockholm. It is one of the country’s leading examples of national romanticism in architecture. The City Hall was designed by the architect Ragnar Östberg is built from eight million bricks. The 106-meter tall tower has the three crowns, which is the Swedish national coat of arms, at its apex. The southeast corner of the building, immediately adjacent to the shore, is marked by a monumental tower crowned by the Three Crowns, an old national symbol for Sweden. In addition to the main tower, the City Hall was decorated with five smaller towers, all of which received an individual design by Östberg. On the southern facade, the so-called Moon Tower is marked with a gilded moonlight as a tower spire. In the inner corner of Borgargården to the west stands two towers with copper-plate- covered tower hoods , the north ( Northern copper tower ) with swelling forms resembling a double onion dome , the south ( South copper tower ) slightly slimmer. The fourth tower is found at the northeast corner of the city hall and is called the Karintornet after Catherine of Vadstena . The tower's velvet wind is a gilded angel. In the Karintornet, Östberg had originally intended to place the city hall chimes.[ 31 ] The fifth tower encloses the northern stairwell on the facade towards Hantverkargatan.
In addition, there is the Virgin Tower, which is actually a lower ledge on the north side of the main tower. On this ledge or the terrace stands the sculpture group Sankt Göran and the dragon . Just below, the princess is seen in her cage biting her fate, symbolizing the city of Stockholm which will soon be liberated from the Danes by Sten Sture d.ä. during the Battle of Brunkeberg 1471. The princess is driven in copper by Christian Eriksson and gilded by Ragnar Myrsmeden. Sept. 30, 2019
