Örby is a residential area in

Söderort Söderort (literally "the southern place", sometimes translated to ''South Stockholm'') is the southern suburban part of the Stockholm Municipality, Sweden. It is also part of the city of Stockholm. Geography Söderort is located in the nort ...

Stockholm Municipality Stockholm Municipality or the City of Stockholm ( sv, Stockholms kommun or ) is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. It has the largest population of the 290 municipalities of the country, but one of the smallest areas, mak ...

, Sweden. It has an area of 159

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s and 4,720 inhabitants.

History

Örby got its name from the Örby Manor (''Örby slott''), as does the neighbouring residential area of

Örby slott Örby slott is a residential area in the suburb of Söderort in Stockholm Municipality, Sweden. It has an area of and had 1,888 inhabitants in 2017. Örby took its name from Örby Manor (''Örby slott'') which is situated in the area and which ...

. Örby was created a self-governing village within Brännkyrka Rural District in 1904. The area was amalgamated with

Stockholm City Stockholm () is the capital and most populous city of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately 1 million people live in the municipality, with 1.6 million in the urban area, and 2.4 million i ...

in 1913 and the rural district was dissolved. In the present administration of the city, it is part of the borough of

Enskede-Årsta-Vantör Enskede-Årsta-Vantör (listen ) is a borough (''stadsdelsområde'') in Söderort, the southern part of Stockholm, Sweden. Overview The districts that make up the borough are Enskedefältet, Enskede Gård, Gamla Enskede, Johanneshov, Stureby, � ...

Notable buildings

Leipzighuset is a multi-dwelling apartment house located at the corner of Turingevägen / Gamla Huddingevägen in Örby. Built in the early 1900s, the architecture differs from other buildings in Örby and was inspired by German metropolitan architecture from the turn of the 1900s. Örbyskolan was built in 1915 and designed by architect Georg A. Nilsson (1871-1949). The building looks like similar schools in

Gamla Enskede Gamla Enskede (Swedish: "Old Enskede") is a district of Enskede-Årsta-Vantör borough, South Stockholm, Sweden. In addition to housing areas, the district includes the Skogskyrkogården woodland cemetery and the smaller Sandsborgskyrkogården c ...

and Långbro and is sometimes mistaken for a church due to its size and shape.

Communications

Örby was served by

tram A tram (called a streetcar or trolley in North America) is a rail vehicle that travels on tramway tracks on public urban streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way. The tramlines or networks operated as public transport ...

s between 1930 and 1951 ( line 19, at the time called Örbybanan), but now has bus connections with the

Stockholm Metro The Stockholm metro ( sv, Stockholms tunnelbana) is a rapid transit system in Stockholm, Sweden. The first line opened in 1950, and today the system has 100 stations in use, of which 47 are underground and 53 above ground. There are three colo ...

at the stations in Bandhagen, Svedmyra and

Högdalen Högdalen (the High Valley) is a suburban district in South Stockholm, Sweden, built around the metro station with this name on line 19. It was connected to Stockholm City Centre in 1954, three years after the town planning of the Högdalen di ...

as well as the

Stockholm commuter rail Stockholm commuter rail ( sv, Stockholms pendeltåg) is the commuter rail system in Stockholm County, Sweden. The system is an important part of the public transport in Stockholm, and is controlled by Storstockholms Lokaltrafik. The tracks are s ...

station at

Älvsjö Älvsjö () is a district of the city of Stockholm Municipality in Sweden, located in the borough Älvsjö in Söderort. It has the biggest rentable facility in northern Europe called Stockholm International Fairs Stockholm International Fai ...

Sports

The sports club Örby IS was founded in 1912 and is still active, with

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is t ...

floorball Floorball is a type of floor hockey with five players and a goalkeeper in each team. Men and women play indoors with sticks and a plastic ball with holes. Matches are played in three twenty-minute periods. The sport of bandy also played a role ...

and

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two o ...

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Districts of Stockholm {{Stockholm-stub

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