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The old St Laurentii church burned down in 1494. It was then rebuilt and inaugerated in 1497, just tree years after. However the building work with the church continued until 1560.
(The year 1296 that is painted inside the church under the picture of St Laurentius is - as the Swedish info brochure says - probably a error in some of the repairs that were done during the 1700 och 1800).
Make a visit to this old hall church. The style is called baltic brick gothic, as some more resembling churches in harbour towns around the Baltic Sea are build in bricks in the same fashion.
Updated Nov 13, 2003
Address: Central part of village
A smultronställe (wild strawberry place) is used to describe an especially nice place usually somewhere off the beaten track.
Smultronstället is located just next to the Göta Channel and you can see the boats pass the flood gates as you eat your ice cream. It's Sweden's largest ice cream restaurant and one of the most famous, people come to Söderköping just to eat there.
They serve ice cream but that doesn't really give an accurate image, the ice cream is served in glasses and are fantastic creations in a myriad of flavour and colors. They are so large that they are an entire meal in themselves.
They are only open during the summer from april to the end of august.
Written Oct 6, 2003
Address: Slussplan
Phone: 0121-216 11
Website: http://www.smultronstallet.se/
The oldest part of this church is the sacristy, probably constructed in the end of the 13th century as a separate chapel. The other parts of the church were probably erected during the 14th century.
The bell tower was constructed in the 18th century and was rebuilt 1788 when it was given the quadratic roof cover.
The church was called the Trinity church (S:t Trinitatis) during medevial time, note the three circles in the church wall!
Updated Aug 28, 2003
Visit Söderköpings Turistbyrå (Tourist info centre) and get the info you need, also ask for a city map to make yourself familiar to the city.
Updated Aug 26, 2003
Address: Margaretagatan 19
Phone: 0121-18160
Website: www.soderkoping.se
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Go up the path from the sluices to the top of Ramunderberget. From here you get a nice view of this little town Söderköping.
On top of the hill there is a ancient fortress 'Ramundersborg', that is the greatest ancient fortress in Östergötland.
Written Feb 25, 2003
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... forgot ... I will come to it later...: Nice camping in the center of the city
El_Sueco Says: Small camping mostly for caravan cars, but a few tents are easily squeezed in.You are in the middle of this small medivial town, 5 minutes from the sluices, a museum and a bed-and-brekfast just beside, and the morning cafe just beside the campground on top of a little hill,...
Well, we can take another one too...
Perhaps this one was the King of Tonga, i don´t remember. It has some resembly of Banana Split.
Written Nov 7, 2002
Address: Beside the chanel at the sluices
This summer café has one thing on the menu: Icecream. You will get a cover with 30-40 sheets in plastics with colour photos of all the ice-creams there is to order.
Well, you can order coffe too or some carbonized thing if you like.
Favorite Dish: The Vezuvius - an ice-cream that gets to you surrounded with smoke (just 'smoke' from carbondioxid-ice).
Or you can choose some of the other as well, without smoke.
A banana split is not wrong either (but have perhaps another name).
Thou shalt not eath before thiss...
Written Oct 21, 2002
Address: Just beside the first sluice.
Through Sýderkýping runs the Gýta Kanal, the E22 crosses Gýta Kanal just as you drive into Sýderkýping. Normally there's no problem here but in the beginning and end of the weekend a lot of people drive this way to get to their summer houses and to drive down to ýland and Smýland.
In the summer the bridge opens every full and halv hour to let boats pass by. There are on fridays and sundays always long traffic jams here that "get stuck" in all the red lights in Sýderkýping and it can take over an hour to pass by.
There are ways to drive ariound the queue but it's on small roads, your best bet is to follow the other cars around.
Written Sep 22, 2003
Favorite thing: This day it was 'the Söderköping Day', in July I think. We was very lucky to be there that day. Much people, many activities. One of these were the Church Boat Rowing. A boat and its crew from Rättvik.
They put the boat in the channel and then rowed into the sluices where they were lifted to the higher level. This boats are main attraction in Dalecarlia (=Dalarna), the rowing is an old Sunday tradition.
Written Feb 25, 2003
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