Gustavsberg

Gustavsberg
Gustavsberg
State :	Sweden
Province  (län):	Stockholm County
Historical Province (landskap):	Uppland
Municipality  :	Värmdö
Coordinates :	59 ° 20 ′  N , 18 ° 23 ′  E Coordinates: 59 ° 20 ′  N , 18 ° 23 ′  E
SCB code :	0172
Status:	Crime scene
Residents :	20,774 (December 31, 2015)
Area :	14.04 km²
Population density :	1480 inhabitants / km²
List of perpetrators in Stockholm County

Gustavsberg is the larger part of the Gustavsberg och Hemmesta crime scene in the Swedish province of Stockholm County and the historic province of Uppland . It is located a good 20 kilometers east of central Stockholm on the island of Värmdö and is the capital of the municipality of Värmdö .

history

A grave field west of the porcelain factory premises shows that the area was inhabited in the Viking Age. The population increased in the Middle Ages. Around the village, which was then called Farsta , the conditions for agriculture were good: In 1619 the farms in Farsta totaled 30 hectares of arable land.

Around 1640 the Reichsdrost Gabriel Gustafsson took over Oxenstierna Farsta. In the same year it was inherited by his son, Councilor Gustaf Gabrielsson Oxenstierna. He built a brick factory to produce building materials for his new house in Farsta. When Gustaf died in 1648, his widow, Maria Sofia De la Gardie , continued to build. She also continued to run the brickworks, which she named Gustafsberg in 1662 in honor of her late husband .

In 1719 Farsta was devastated by the Russians but soon rebuilt.

There was a decisive boost to development when the brickworks were demolished in 1825 and a porcelain factory was opened the following year . The rapidly growing industrial estate was dominated by factory managers, who were considered progressive at the time, and soon served as role models for similar places.

One of the factory managers was the conservative Reichstag member Wilhelm Odelberg, who was active from 1869 until the 1920s. He led Gustavsberg in a patriarchal manner and in 1902 achieved the administrative separation of the place from the municipality of Värmdö. The conditions for the employees were so good that it was not until 1919 that a union organization was established here. In the same year the consumer cooperative von Gustavsberg was founded. This gave the settlement a cooperative character and bought the porcelain factory in 1938. Nowhere in Sweden did cooperatives have such a strong influence as in Gustavsberg. Then it took until 1974 until Gustavsberg became part of the municipality of Värmdö again.

Since 2015, Gustavsberg and Hemmesta , whose center is about five kilometers east of the center of Gustavsberg on the east side of the Torsbyfjärden bay, have been a joint crime scene. This also includes the previously independent, smaller Tatorte Mörtnäs (between Gustavsberg and Hemmesta) and Torsby, north of Hemmesta. As a result of this merger, due to the fact that there is now virtually continuous residential development in the area, the number of inhabitants in the crime scene has almost doubled compared to 2010 and exceeded the 20,000 mark.

traffic

The place is connected by several bus lines to the Slussen station in central Stockholm. The journey takes 20 to 25 minutes.

Attractions

In addition to the porcelain factory and museum, Gustavsberg is known for its round house, which was built in the 1950s as a local authority. The appearance of the building, which now houses a library, is vaguely reminiscent of a “lemon squeezer”. The Treudd von Gustavsberg is located near the harbor.

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  Farsta Castle

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  The "lemon squeezer"

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  Gustavsberg Church

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  The Treudd von Gustavsberg

Web links

Commons : Gustavsberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Statistiska centralbyrån : Land area per Tatort, folkmängd and invånare per square kilometer. Vart femte år 1960 - 2015 (database query)
2. ^ ^{A b} Stockholms Läns Museum, Gustavsberg-Farstaviken, Archives Swedish
3. ↑ Allt om Gustavsberg, Rolf Ljung / Gösta Arvidsson Östra Småland, 2007-11-10, Swedish