Canon ball (Stockholm)

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The Canon ball is very visible in the corner of the bulding in the southwest corner of Stortorget. The story behind the Canon ball is that it was fired by Gustav Vasa 1521 (this was before he was elected king of Sweden) against King Kristian II (read more about his above). He was called the Tyrant in Sweden and the Good in Denmark, in Sweden it was partly due to that he arranged Stockholm blodbath a few years ealier. The King was allmost hit by the Canon ball but it missed and got stuck in the corner of the building where it is today. The siege ended with that the King has to flee back to Denmark and Gustav Vasa was elected King of Sweden. Well, the story about the Canon ball is just a legend, the real story behind it is: In 1795 the furniture dealer Fredrik Christian Grevesmuhl built a new house at Stortorget (the main square) and it was he who put the Canon ball there during the builing of the house. Approx. 250 years after the it was supposed to be fired. He justified it with that the Canon ball was a monument of the liberation of Sweden as a independent kingdom under Gustav Vasa and the removal of the much hated King Kristian II.
Due to the Canon ball the house is sometimes called "Rövarkulan" (robber's den)
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