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Zum Franziskaner

Restaurant · Gamla stan (Old Town) · Since 1889

Zum Franziskaner
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

On a clear day in June the terrace has sun 07:00–17:20, about 10.5 hours in total.

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The story of Zum Franziskaner

Zum Franziskaner opened on 23 December 1889 at Skeppsbron 44 in Gamla stan. Augusta Engelbrecht started the beer hall as an offshoot of the restaurant Zur Himmelsleiter, and the shop window promised genuine German beer from Munich. Locals often just call it Zum.

The original 17th-century house on the site was pulled down, and the restaurant moved back in when the new building was finished in 1910. Much of the Art Nouveau interior from that year survives, including lamps, stucco and wood panelling. The name refers to the Franciscans, the mendicant order that followed Saint Francis of Assisi. A long-told story dates the place to the 1400s, but there is no evidence for it.

New owners took over in 2017. The kitchen serves Swedish and southern German home cooking, and the beer comes from small breweries in Sweden and Germany, with a soft spot for Franconia. At the back is the Bakficka, a beer hall that often pours gravity-fed beer straight from the cask.

Zum Franziskaner in earlier days
Photo: Larssons Ateljé, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources: Wikipedia: Zum Franziskaner · Zum Franziskaner: About · Zum Franziskaner

When does Zum Franziskaner get sun?

Sun on the terrace on a clear day in the middle of the month. Yellow is sun, light blue is daylight but shade.

April

Sun 07:00–17:10 (10 hours)

June

Sun 07:00–17:20 (10.5 hours)

August

Sun 07:00–17:40 (10.5 hours)

Opening hours

Mon16:00–23:00
Tue–Thu16:00–24:00
Fri–Sat15:00–24:00
Sun15:00–23:00

Regular opening hours from OpenStreetMap. Check with the place before you go, especially around holidays.

About the terrace

According to the City of Stockholm, Zum Franziskaner holds a permit for a terrace of about 33 m² at Skeppsbron 44. The permit runs 27 April to 4 September 2026. The first permit in the city's register is from 2021.

Source: the City of Stockholm's register of street-space permits (open data). We calculate the sun where the permit says the tables stand.

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  4. Jerntorgith Restaurant · Café · Pizza · 70 m Sun at lunch Sun 07:00–10:00 and 11:50–17:40
  5. Tre Valv Restaurant · Vegetarian-friendly · 70 m Sun at lunch Sun 07:00–09:20 and 11:00–18:00
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Eftermiddagssol, according to Stoligt

Times look wrong, for example because the terrace is on the other side of the building? Fix the location in OpenStreetMap and Stoligt will follow at the next update.

How Stoligt works it out

Every ten minutes we draw a line from each terrace toward the sun and check whether a building or hill is tall enough to block it. Building heights come from OpenStreetMap and ground heights from Lantmäteriet, the Swedish mapping agency. The times assume a clear day, so clouds are not included here. They are on the live map, which shows today's weather.

Trees, parasols and awnings are not in the model, and we don't know exactly where on the pavement the tables stand. Treat the times as an educated guess, often accurate to within ten minutes.