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Norrtälje is situated at Roslagen Baltic Sea coastal area of Sweden, about 60 km northeast of
Stockholm.
At a population of about 23,600 (2023), it is one of the largest towns of the area. The town is also the seat of Norrtälje
municipality, which was created in 1971 and contains a total of 25 original local government units.
Norrtälje’s early history dates back to the Iron Age. Around 225 ancient monuments have been found within what is now the city. Norrtälje traces its more recent history to 1219, when the location was first mentioned as Tälje. After some time, the name officially became Norrtälje, to distinguish it from the other Tälje in the province, Södertälje. The town of Norra Tällie was founded by King Gustav II Adolf in 1622, as were several other towns after the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648). In 1719, large parts of the central town were burnt down by a Russian army during the Russian Pillage of 1719–1721. During the Finnish War of 1808–1809, Norrtälje was designated a garrison town. The town's development would accelerate during the latter part of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, not least as a result of the very special spa life that, after 1844, developed around the use of alternating hot and cold baths with treatment with diatomaceous earth. In 1846, Norrtälje received a steamboat connection with Stockholm. Norrtälje experienced a boom as an industrial town after the Länna–Norrtälje Railway was opened to traffic in 1884 as part of the Roslagsbanan narrow-gauge railway, which operated until 1969.
The picture on glass no. 4830 [left] is labelled Minne från Norrtälje / Stads 300 års
jubileum (Souvenir from Norrtälje / City's 300th anniversary), therefore it likely was made in or around 1922.
[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norrt%C3%A4lje, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norrt%C3%A4lje, https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norrt%C3%A4lje]
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