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Uppsala in Suecia antiqua et hodierna City map from 1702, before the great city fire 1702 fire in Uppsala. In 1523 Gustav Vasa seized power in Sweden. During his reign Uppsala experienced a severe decline. The ecclesiastical city was largely affected by his reduction and the university closed due to lack of funds.
Freyr's subjects loved him greatly, and he was "blessed by good seasons like his father." According to the saga, Freyr "erected a great shrine at Uppsala and made his chief residence there, directing it to all tribute due to him, both lands and chattels. This was the origin of the Uppsala crown goods, which have been kept up ever since." [7]
Further excavations at Gamla Uppsala in the 1990s uncovered remains of a large settlement and a very large hall near the church, which has been identified as a hall hof, either "a feasting hall in which pagan festivals took place at certain times" or, based on its lack of internal divisions, a ritual space based in overall form on the long house.
Uppsala (/ ʌ p ˈ s ɑː l ə / up-SAH-lə, Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɵ̂pːˌsɑːla] ⓘ; archaically spelled Upsala) is the capital of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö.
Gamla Uppsala (Swedish: [ˈɡâmːla ˈɵ̂pːˌsɑːla], Old Uppsala) is a parish and a village outside Uppsala in Sweden. It had 17,973 inhabitants in 2016. [1] As early as the 3rd century AD and the 4th century AD and onwards, it was an important religious, economic and political centre. [2]
1654 – Queen Christina of Sweden announces her abdication in Uppsala. 1663 – The student nations of Uppsala are legalized by the Konsistorium of the university. 1669 – The Codex Argentus is donated to Uppsala university. 1675 – The parliament of 1675 is held in Uppsala. 1702 – Most of Uppsala is destroyed in a comprehensive city fire. [1]
Nearby Gamla Uppsala was an important religious and aristocratic center from at least the 5th century up until 1273 (when the Catholic archbishopric was moved to the area that became modern-day Uppsala). It had been at the end of the 5th century that the Yngling dynasty is known to have established themselves in Gamla Uppsala. Today, large ...
Uppsala Cathedral (Swedish: Uppsala domkyrka ⓘ) is a cathedral located between the University Hall of Uppsala University and the Fyris river in the centre of Uppsala, Sweden. A church of the Church of Sweden, the national church, in the Lutheran tradition, Uppsala Cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of Uppsala, the primate of