Page 25 - Hotel Tunnel's 100 Years of History

The properties located to the west were made up of sturdy cottages that could be heated and rented out to travelers. During the 16th century, the properties had been owned successively by Morten Frendesen, the coun- cilman Hans Daabelsten, Niels the goldsmith, and the son of the mayor, the merchant Willem Effwertsen Dichman. The latter of whom was pur- chased by Mogens Hollender and his wife Gertrud around 1596.
In the spring of 1601, former councilor of the realm Erik Gustavsson Stenbock had a visit from "Count Gustav of Sweden", also known as his nephew, chamberlain to King Sigismund, Count Gustav Brahe, who was born in 1558, and was the son of the chief steward of Sweden, Peder Brahe and Baroness Beata Stenbock. Count Gustav Brahe, of Visingsborg, known for his courtship of King Sigismund's sister Princess Anna, had permanently left Sweden after the Battle of Stangebro in 1598 and advan- ced in Polish service to the rank of field marshal, and died unmarried in Danzig in 1614. During his stay in Malmo, Count Gustav Brahe also stay-
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