Alby

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The Albysjön

Alby is a part of municipality (kommundel) of the Swedish municipality of Botkyrka in the province County Stockholm and since 1975 part of the Tätorts Stockholm . A total of around 11,400 people live in Alby, 60.6% of whom are of foreign origin. 7.4% of the population are unemployed (as of December 31, 2010).

geography

The village is located in the middle of the forest at Albysjön (German: "Albysee"), which also has its own port in a small bay.

history

The place name is composed of al , the Swedish word for " alder " and by , " village ", and thus means "Erlendorf".

Traces of a Bronze Age settlement have been discovered in Alby . The finds include around 850 pottery shards, a fragmentary shaft-hole ax and a blue glass bead.

Alby's original farm was built in the Middle Ages. The current farmhouse was built in 1895 in the Empire style and has elements of classicism . The inventor Lars Magnus Ericsson lived there from 1895 until his death.

A subway station on the Röda linjen of the Stockholm subway was inaugurated on January 12, 1975.

The center was redesigned in the 1990s. Space was created for companies. There is also a clinic, several baseball fields and its own softball team .

The Alby Public Library, which used to be on the same site as the Alby School, moved to a new building in April 2008. The old library at the school was demolished in 2009.

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics on the Stockholm Province website ( Memento from May 25, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (Swedish)

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Coordinates: 59 ° 14 '22 "  N , 17 ° 50' 59.9"  E