Flemingsberg is a southern

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Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

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that is located in

Huddinge Municipality Huddinge Municipality ( sv, Huddinge kommun) is a municipality in Stockholm County, east central Sweden. Its seat is located in Huddinge (), which is a part of Stockholm urban area. The municipality is, with its approximately 110,000 inhabitant ...

in the south-western part of the contiguous Stockholm urban area. It is located approximately 15 minutes by

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from central Stockholm, or 20–30 minutes by car. Flemingsberg has 12,000 inhabitants, around 12,300 people work there, and there are about 13,000 students studying at

Södertörn University Södertörn University ( sv, Södertörns högskola, abbreviated as SH) is a public university college ( sv, högskola) located in Flemingsberg in Huddinge Municipality, and the larger area called Södertörn, in Stockholm County, Sweden. In ...

. There is a railway station (''Flemingsberg'', formerly ''Stockholm Syd Flemingsberg''), a major hospital, a university college and there are also colourful high-rise residential buildings from the 1970s. Flemingsberg has also evolved as a law enforcement center for the southern part of metropolitan Stockholm, with police station, court house, prosecutor's office and a jail, all in buildings built in the 1990s onwards.

History

Flemingsberg gets its name from the Flemingsberg manor. The village where the

manor house A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals w ...

was built in the 17th century was originally called Andersta but the name was changed when it came into the ownership of Henrik Fleming. The current manor house was built in 1790. The current buildings in Flemingsberg (also called "Flempan" for short) was built during the

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and for a long time there was trouble renting out all the apartments and the area become known as a very bad suburb. The two halves were renamed

Visättra Visättra (formerly Östra Flemingsberg) is a residential area in Flemingsberg in Huddinge municipality Huddinge Municipality ( sv, Huddinge kommun) is a municipality in Stockholm County, east central Sweden. Its seat is located in Huddinge () ...

and Grantorp as the name Flemingsberg gave bad associations. Today the name Flemingsberg is again used for the area and the railway station. One notable building is the

Flemingsberg Church Flemingsberg Church ( sv, Flemingsbergs kyrka) is a church building in Flemingsberg, Huddinge, Sweden that is part of the Church of Sweden The Church of Sweden ( sv, Svenska kyrkan) is an Evangelical Lutheran national church in Sweden. A forme ...

Facilities

*The former Huddinge University Hospital is now a part of

Karolinska University Hospital The Karolinska University Hospital ( sv, Karolinska universitetssjukhuset) is a teaching hospital affiliated with Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, with two major sites in the municipalities of Solna and Huddinge. The hospital network ...

at Huddinge in Flemingsberg and is associated with the medical university of

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(''Karolinska institutet''). *

(''Södertörns högskola''), inaugurated in 1996. *One campus of the Royal Institute of Technology (''Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan''), is located in southern Stockholm. * Novum Research Park — Genomics and proteomics research and biological sciences park.

Railway station

Flemingsberg is the name of a railway station on the

line between

Södertälje Södertälje ( , ) is a Urban areas in Sweden, city in Södermanland and Stockholm County, Sweden and seat of Södertälje Municipality. As of 2017, it has 72,704 inhabitants. Södertälje is located at Mälarens confluence in to the Baltic Sea ...

and

Märsta Märsta () is a suburb of Metropolitan Stockholm, a locality and the seat of Sigtuna Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 27,034 inhabitants in 2015. The town is situated close to Stockholm's main international airport, Arlanda. Even though ...

, via central

. Trains usually departs within 15 minute intervals both ways. Certain long distance trains with destinations such as

Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat ...

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and

Eskilstuna Eskilstuna () is a city and the seat of Eskilstuna Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden. The city of Eskilstuna had 67,359 inhabitants in 2015, with a total population of 100,092 inhabitants in Eskilstuna municipality (2014). Eskilstuna has ...

also stop at Flemingsberg. Flemingsberg is one of Sweden's bigger railway stations in terms of the number of passengers. {{coord, 59, 13, 10, N, 17, 56, 30, E, type:city_source:kolossus-svwiki, display=title Metropolitan Stockholm Stockholm urban area