:I like the random questions. )  , if there is a better place to ask questions like these, I'd like to know, too.  There is the wp:Tearoom but that's for getting help.  You have good questions. ) 
 :For this one, i know to search about in conjunction with Stockholm, Sweden... yep, there is a spinnhus bridge...yes, here is what i was looking for:  Långholmens spinnhus.  I read this article with a fair amount of horror, a while back, that women deemed "defenceless" were rounded up and imprisoned, to work there.  Maybe that was better than other alternatives.  The article suggests it follows Dutch rasp and spinnhus... oh, here is Rasphuis for the men, literally rasping wood into powder, while "female criminals were sent to the spinhuis".  Spinhuis and Spinnhus are both currently redlinks;  wanna change that?  (I'd start by translating nl:Spinhuis (Amsterdam), i'd be happy to, actually.)