Södertörn
Södertörn is an approximately triangular peninsula in the east of the historical Swedish province of Södermanland . The boundary is formed by Lake Mälaren and Saltsjön Bay in the north , Himmerfjärden and Hallsfjärden in the west and the Baltic Sea in the east and south . The connections to the mainland are now broken by the canals at Södertälje and the Stockholm district of Hammarby.
The north of the peninsula is wavy with wooded or bare hills. Here is Sweden's smallest national park, Tyresta . In the central part is the elevated forest landscape of Hanveden with Södertörn's highest mountain, Tornberget 110.9 meters above sea level. In the south there are agricultural plains with isolated elevations. The original mountain bed consists almost everywhere of gneiss .
The name, which changed from Tør (1283) to Tørinne (1383) to Södertörn (since 1645), is comparable to the Norwegian dialect word tor , which means “cut rocky beach”. This is also a good description of the peninsula's coastline.
For a long time Södertörn was relatively unaffected by its proximity to Stockholm. The farmers worked barren soils and only in the vicinity of the manor houses were the soil and the yields better. In the places on the coast, fishing dominated. Only at the end of the 19th century did Stockholm noticeably expand southwards. This was mainly due to the new railroad lines Västra stambanan and Nynäsbanan .
Coordinates: 59 ° 6 ' N , 18 ° 1' E