Rissne is a neighborhood in the western part of
Sundbyberg Municipality
Sundbyberg Municipality (''Sundbybergs kommun'' or ''Sundbybergs stad'') is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden, just north of the capital Stockholm. Sundbyberg is wholly within the Stockholm urban area and has a 100% urban p ...
,
Stockholm
Stockholm () is the capital and largest city of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people live in the municipality, with 1.6 million in the urban area, and 2.4 million in the metropo ...
,
Sweden
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. It has about 7500 inhabitants and borders to
Stora Ursvik
Stora Ursvik is a district in Sundbyberg Municipality with 2306 inhabitants (in 2019), and a suburb in the Stockholm metropolitan area. An unbuilt corner of the district is located in Stockholm Municipality. This residential area is under construc ...
in the north,
Duvbo
Duvbo is an upper-middle-class residential area in Sundbyberg in suburban Stockholm, Sweden. In 2019 it had 2217 inhabitants.
The Duvbo metro station is located in central Sundbyberg, just outside (300m) Duvbo and is part of the Stockholm Metro ...
and
Hallonbergen
Hallonbergen (meaning "Raspberry Hill") is a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden.
Hallonbergen, which has about 5,400 inhabitants, located in Sundbyberg Municipality in the north west of Stockholm, is a fairly typical 1960-1970s area of dense ''Million ...
in the east, and in the west and south to
Bromsten Bromsten () is a middle-class district of northwestern Stockholm and belongs to the Spånga-Tensta borough. The ruins of an ancient hill fort
A hillfort is a type of earthwork used as a fortified refuge or defended settlement, located to expl ...
, the latter one within
Västerort
Västerort (sometimes translated to ''West Stockholm'') is the western part of Stockholm Municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden. It also forms part of Stockholm urban area and of Stockholm Metropolitan Area. It constitutes the western suburb ...
in
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, m ...
. The area belonged to what used to be
Spånga
Spånga is a community and parish in the borough of Spånga-Tensta in Stockholm County, Sweden.
Background
Spånga was an independent municipality until January 1, 1949 when most of it was merged with the City of Stockholm, with smaller p ...
municipality until its dissolution in 1949, when it for example together with Duvbo was transferred to Sundbybergs stad. The name comes from Risö, which was the name that the
Vikings
Vikings ; non, víkingr is the modern name given to seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden),
who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and se ...
used. The
Svea Artillery Regiment
The Svea Artillery Regiment ( sv, Svea artilleriregemente), designation A 1, was a Swedish Army artillery regiment that traced its origins back to the 17th century. It was disbanded in 1997. The regiment's soldiers were originally recruited from S ...
had its camp there until 1960. An apartment block was built 1982 to 1988. The street names in the area hints to the site’s military history. (Lavettvägen, Kavallerivägen, Pjäsbacken, Artillerivägen, and Skvadronsbacken) and on the many relics (including graves) contained in Rissne (Mjölnerbacken, Odalvägen, Valkyriavägen).
Residential Area
The residential area is located on a
plateau
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in the middle of Rissne. Apartment blocks have been built around Rissne square and the large lawn in the center of the plateau and also on the nearby
hills
A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain. It often has a distinct summit.
Terminology
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. The buildings consist largely of low to medium polish and brick houses on a courtyard setting with intermediate walking paths with a continuous construction since the 1980s. There are two smaller terraced areas (Duvboskogen and Grönkulla named by the constructor) they were built in the 2000s and later. The lack of thoroughfare makes traffic volume low in the area. In 2010 there were 3151 flats in the area of which 70% of them were allotted for rent and 30% of them were of condominium. Approximately sixty sculptures made by famous Swedish artists are placed in the residential area. Rissne is considered by the swedish police a ”vulnerable area” with problems of high crime.
History
The area was inhabited as early as the
Middle ages
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. Back then Rissne was nothing more than a rural consisting of Rissne farm,
cropland
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and
forest
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. The farm was mentioned in early medieval documents
The secretary of the Admiralty,
Reinhold Goevert Leuhusen
Reinhold is a German male given name. This German name is originally from "Reinold", composed of two elements. The first is from ''ragin'', meaning "the (Germanic) Gods" and ''wald'' meaning "powerful".
This name was popularised by the ancient Ge ...
acquired the farm in 1640. During the 17th century
Erik Dahlberg
''
Count Erik Jönsson Dahlbergh (10 October 162516 January 1703) was a Swedish military engineer, Governor-general and Field marshal. He rose to the level of nobility through his military competence. As an architect and draftsman, he was reno ...
made a sketch of the farm, according to the sketch the farm-house had 4 floors. The courtyard was covered by Charles XI reduction and became crown property in 1692. Rissne farm was used for military purpose until 1811. Due to decay the top 2 floors was demolished because of the tenant Karl Edmund Bennet. Since 1983 the estate has been protected by heritage building decided by Sundbybergs municipality. The house was restored 1992.
Mounds in Rissne have been used for
archaeological research. The height on the mounds and the gifts indicates that Rissne was inhabited by the high society.
Business
In the northwestern Rissne Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) has a large office complex in Bankhus 90. The smaller office complexes Valla Park and Rissne Office Center is located closer to Rissne square.
Demographics
Rissne is the second largest (in terms of population) district in Sundbyberg Municipality, where Centrala Sundbyberg is the largest.
At the end of year 2011, 7,512 inhabitants lived in Rissne, which corresponds to 19.0% of the total inhabitants living in the municipality. Throughout urban planning it’s expected that the population of Rissne is going to rise above 10 000 inhabitants at the year of 2025. Year 2011 was 55,3% of the population born in a foreign country (72% from Europe) and 20,6% had parents that were
born in a foreign country (which means that a total of 75.3% of the population had a foreign background according to the concept used by the Swedish authorities).
References
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Geography of Stockholm