Källargränd is an

alley An alley or alleyway is a narrow lane, footpath, path, or passageway, often reserved for pedestrians, which usually runs between, behind, or within buildings in towns and cities. It is also a rear access or service road (back lane), or a path, w ...

Gamla stan Gamla Stan (, "The Old Town"), until 1980 officially Staden mellan broarna ("The Town between the Bridges"), is the old town of Stockholm, Sweden. Gamla Stan consists primarily of the island Stadsholmen. Gamla Stan includes the surrounding islets ...

, the old town in central

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, connecting

Slottsbacken Slottsbacken (, "Castle Slope") is a street in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden. It stretches east from the Stockholm Cathedral and the Royal Palace down to the street Skeppsbron which passes along the eastern waterfront ...

, the slope south of the Royal Palace, to the square

Stortorget Stortorget (, "the Grand Square") is a public square in Gamla Stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden. It is the oldest square in Stockholm, the historical centre on which the medieval urban conglomeration gradually came into being. To ...

. It forms a parallel street to

Trångsund Trångsund () is a part of Huddinge to the south of Stockholm located between the two lakes Magelungen and Drevviken. Trångsund had 9,114 inhabitants in 2019. Trångsund is 17 minutes away from Stockholm City Station by train on the Bålsta-N ...

and is intercepted by Trädgårdsgatan. The alley is named after the former tavern ''Storkällaren'' ("Great basement"), which in its turn derived its name from the nearby cathedral

Storkyrkan Storkyrkan (, ), also called Stockholms domkyrka (Stockholm Cathedral) and Sankt Nikolai kyrka (Church of Saint Nicholas), is the oldest church in Stockholm. Storkyrkan lies in the centre of Stockholm in Gamla stan, between Stockholm Palace and ...

. The tavern was located under the town house, where the present Stock Exchange Building is found. The town hall was relocated to the

Bonde Palace The Bonde Palace () is a palace in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden. Located between the House of Knights (''Riddarhuset'') and the Chancellery House (''Kanslihuset''), it is, arguably, the most prominent monument of the era ...

at Riddarhustorget in 1730, and when the old building was demolished in 1767, the tavern moved to Svartmangatan. The name of the alley survived in various forms: ''Stora Källaregränden'', ''St. Källarbrinken'' (1733), ''Stora Kiällare-Gränden'' (1740) and ''Källar-Gränd'' (1855). A new tavern was opened when the stock exchange was inaugurated, and this remained in business until 1906. The

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and the Nobel Library are on number 4. Two sandstone sculptures, ''Hoppet'' ("Hope") and ''Försiktighet'' ("Guardedness") by Kortz Daniel from 1702 are located in the alley.

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The Nobel library
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