Lidingö

	Lidingö
	Lidingö
State :	Sweden
Province (län):	Stockholm County
Historical Province (landskap):	Uppland
Municipality :	Lidingö
Coordinates :	59 ° 22 ′ N , 18 ° 8 ′ E Coordinates: 59 ° 22 ′ N , 18 ° 8 ′ E
SCB code :	0228
Status:	Crime scene
Residents :	42,466 (December 31, 2015)
Area :	16.78 km²
Population density :	2531 inhabitants / km²
	List of perpetrators in Stockholm County

Lidingö is an island and city in the Swedish province of Stockholm County and the historic province of Uppland . It is the capital of the municipality of the same name . The island is part of the Stockholm archipelago .

history

Lidingö around 3000 BC Chr.

Lidingö today

The old church of Lidingö on Kyrkviken

The island emerged from a tangle of skerries due to the uplift of the land and received its present form around the turn of the times. The first settlement of Lidingö can be dated to at least the 7th century through rune finds from the Vendel and Viking ages , for example the rune stones from Askrikevägen and Dalängen and the rune rocks from Bo Gård . The first settlement of parts of Lidingös probably already took place in the Bronze Age .

In 1912, the Aktiebolaget Gas Accumulator (AGA) factory was built. In 1926 Lidingö received city rights.

The Svenska Aero AB aircraft factory was located in the city and initially built Heinkel aircraft under license from 1921 .

Sports

The local sports club IFK Lidingö offers numerous sports.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

John Ausonius (* 1953), convicted murderer
Dick Bergström (1886–1952), regatta sailor
Kurt Bergström (1891–1955), regatta sailor
May Britt (born 1933), actress
Mikael Dorsin (* 1981), soccer player
Lena Endre (* 1955), actress
Nina Gunke (* 1955), actress
Eva Ström (* 1947), doctor, writer, literary critic

Other personalities

Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), writer, lived there in 1939/40 as a refugee.
Gustaf Dalén (1869–1937), engineer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. He lived in Lidingö for a while and eventually died there.
Wolf S. Jacobson (1894–1973), refugee, Orthodox rabbi, head of a center for the rescue of Jewish girls in Lidingö 1945–1948
Carl Milles (1875–1955), the most important Swedish sculptor, lived and died in Lidingö and bequeathed his house with an ancient art collection and his own works to the city , which is now a museum.

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↑ ^a ^b Statistiska centralbyrån : Land area per Tatort, folkmängd and invånare per square kilometer. Vart femte år 1960 - 2015 (database query)
↑ Chana Mandel, Lidingo: memories of the small Swedish haven which 200 girls called 'home' after the Holocaust, Feldheim Pub 1998

[scb_aktuell-1] Statistiska centralbyrån : Land area per Tatort, folkmängd and invånare per square kilometer. Vart femte år 1960 - 2015 (database query)

[2] Chana Mandel, Lidingo: memories of the small Swedish haven which 200 girls called 'home' after the Holocaust, Feldheim Pub 1998