Gräddö is a locality in Rådmansö parish in
Norrtälje Municipality
Norrtälje Municipality (''Norrtälje kommun'') is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Norrtälje.
It is the largest and northernmost municipality of Stockholm County and was created in 19 ...
in
Roslagen
Roslagen is the name of the coastal areas of Uppland province in Sweden, which also constitutes the northern part of the Stockholm archipelago.
Historically, it was the name for all the coastal areas of the Baltic Sea, including the eastern par ...
.
History
Gräddö was first mentioned in documents in 1547.
In 1739, the Swedish troops intended to be deployed in the
War of the Hats embarked from here.
In August 1809, the Swedish expeditionary force sailed from Gräddö to Ratan in
Västerbotten
Västerbotten (), known in English as West Bothnia or Westrobothnia, is a province (''landskap'') in the north of Sweden, bordering Ångermanland, Lapland, North Bothnia, and the Gulf of Bothnia. It is known for the cheese named after the provi ...
to stop the Russian army from invading.
At the end of the 19th century, Gräddö became a popular tourist destination and a number of towered summer houses were built in the area. Several guest houses were also started, Sjömans, Söderbergs, Strands, Skogshyddan, Ida Bergströms and Björkö örn. Gräddö also got a hot bath house, which, however, was moved to Gräddö-Asken in 1920. In 1933 Gräddö mission house was moved to its current location, after having previously been built in 1868 at Nabbo.
The shipyard at Gräddö was founded in 1924. The shipyard built exclusive motorboats until the 1960s.
In 1959,
Viking Line
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started ferry traffic from Gräddö to
Mariehamn
Mariehamn ( , ; fi, Maarianhamina ; la, Portus Mariae) is the capital city, capital of Ã…land, an autonomous territory under Finland, Finnish sovereignty. Mariehamn is the seat of the Government of Ã…land, Government and Parliament of Ã…land, ...
on Ã…land and on to Galtby,
Korpo
Korpo (; fi, Korppoo ) is an island located in the Turku archipelago. It is a former municipality of Finland. On 1 January 2009, it was consolidated with Houtskär, Iniö, Nagu and Pargas to form the new town of Väståboland. As of 1 January ...
in Finland (
Ã…boland
Ã…boland ( fi, Turunmaa) is a sub-region in the archipelago of the Southwest Finland region in south-western Finland.
Åboland and Turunmaa are also informal names of the region, but in this context Särkisalo ( sv, Finby) is normally included ...
archipelago). The following year, the traffic was moved to
Kapellskär
Kapellskär () is a port about north of Stockholm, in Sweden. It is located by the Baltic Sea, in Norrtälje Municipality, Stockholm County.
Services
The port is served by frequent passenger ferry services to Mariehamn, Ã…land, Finland, operated ...
as the departure port in Sweden.
In 2015,
Statistics Sweden
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demarcated an
urban area
An urban area, built-up area or urban agglomeration is a human settlement with a high population density and infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized by urban morphology as cities, t ...
named by Statistics Sweden as Nabbo, Gräddö and Rävsnäs. The settlement also includes the nearby towns of Rävsnäs and Nabbo.
Gallery
File:Gräddö bygdegård.jpg, The community center
Community centres, community centers, or community halls are public locations where members of a community tend to gather for group activities, social support, public information, and other purposes. They may sometimes be open for the whole co ...
at Gräddö.
File:MY Salt by Knud H Reimers 1938 01.jpg, M/Y Salt designed by Knud H Reimers in 1938 and built at Gräddö shipyard.
References
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Urban areas in Sweden