northern and southern benickebrinken ("slope of benicke") leading up to svartmangatan ("black man's street") are named after the innkeeper "jören benick" who in the middle of the 16th century ran a tavern here named "solen" ("the sun") after the symbol hanging in the street. his tavern was located in a block demolished in the 19th century which used to run between österlånggatan and the two then extremely narrow slopes. the tavern was preceded by the blackfriars monastery located south of the slopes 1330s-1520s, the graveyard of which was discovered under the southern slope, while the extent of it is still marked by two lines of paving stones in prästgatan passing south of the block.