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Doc. 205.] 9
SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS IN 1733.
May 22. After arriving at Ystad I found a vessel pre
pared to go to sea, but waiting for a favourable wind.
May 24 and 25. I arrived at Stralsund from Ystad in
company with Count Issendorff,* and an Italian music teacher
of the name of Keller.
On the following day I took a walk to see the town, its
walls and ramparts, and to trace the effects still remaining of
the siege and the storming of the town in 1715, under King
Charles XII. I approached the gate called "Knieperthor,"
in the storming of which the hostile squadrons and armies of
three kings [ those of Prussia, Poland, and Denmark] for a long
time unsuccessfully spent all their labour and toil. This gate
is very strongly fortified by earth-works, ramparts, and numerous
ditches. I then came to the gate called "Triebseerthor,"
where a new fortification is at present being constructed.
Lastly I arrived at the gate "Frankenthor," where the enemy,
after having during the night passed along the shore between
a long line of defences, consisting of redoubts and other forti
fications, and the swilling waters that covered them, entered,
and placing themselves between the Swedish soldiery and the
inner fortifications, prevented them from re-entering the town.
I saw also where the King’s dwelling was. I visited likewise
the three largest churches of the town ; that of St. Nicholas,
which is the most renowned, near the town-hall; afterwards
St. Mary’s, which is not inferior to it in size, and finally
St. James’s ; besides these there are four smaller chur
ches. In the first of these, the church of St. Nicholas, there
is a celebrated and very conspicuous font ; there are new
sculptures in connection with the altar, and the church is
seated throughout.
May 26. I spent the day doing nothing, waiting for the
stage-coach.
May 27. From Stralsund I travelled to Greifswalde, and
thence into farther Pomerania, or to Anclam, a town which
is slightly fortified, and now subject to the King of Branden
burg. Nothing worthy of notice occurred on the journey. The
* Baron Johan Christoffer von Issendorff, a native of Germany, was
lieutenant-colonel in the Swedish army. He died in 1736.
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