Stureby () is a residential area in southern

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, approx. 3 kilometers from

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. The district at 205 hectares is bordered with

Örby Örby is a residential area in Söderort, Stockholm Municipality, Sweden. It has an area of 159 hectares 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 a ...

, Östberga, Årstafältet,

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 ...

, Svedmyra,

Gubbängen :''See also Gubbängen metro station for the metro station.'' Gubbängen is a suburban district in the southern part of Stockholm. The metro station was opened in 1950. Gubbängen is located in Farsta which is a borough (''stadsdelsområde'') in ...

and

Bandhagen Bandhagen is a suburban district south of Stockholm with 6510 (2018) inhabitants. It is located in the Enskede-Årsta-Vantör borough neighboring Högdalen, Stureby and Örby. The metro station with the same name was opened in 1954. Progressi ...

. There were farms in the area where Stureby is located in the year 1689 according to a map. The area started to be developed in the year 1921 by the company Fastighets AB Villahem. In 1923 the politicians in

decided to build a retirement home that was named Gammelbyn to commemorate

Gustav Vasa Gustav I, born Gustav Eriksson of the Vasa noble family and later known as Gustav Vasa (12 May 1496 – 29 September 1560), was King of Sweden from 1523 until his death in 1560, previously self-recognised Protector of the Realm ('' Riksföre ...

's arrival in Stockholm 400 years earlier. The area was named Stureby after

Sten Sture the Younger Sten Sture the Younger ( sv, Sten Sture den yngre) (1493 – 3 February 1520), was a Swedish nobleman who served as the regent of Sweden, during the era of the Kalmar Union. Biography Sture was born in 1493, as the son of Svante Nilsson (rege ...

in 1926. In 1930 the retirement home Gammelbyn was finished and also a new tram station that was part of the tram line Örbybanan. Stureby nursing home opened in 1935. There once lived 1000 people in the retirement home and the nursing home. In 1938 a cinema named Tusse-bio opened in Stureby and was renamed to Corso in 1939. The tram line in Stureby was improved in the 1940s but got replaced with the

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in 1951. In 1953 the temporary metro station Stureby was made permanent and was then an end station. During the 1950s there was an elementary school called Sturebyskolan built and also some apartment blocks were built.

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took over the retirement home Gammelbyn in 1971 and renamed it to Stureby sjukhus. The elementary school was renovated in the year 2000 and currently has 1000 students.

Gallery

File:Tunnelbanestation Stureby 00855.jpg, Stureby metro station. File:Stureby sjukhem 2012a.jpg, Stureby sjukhem viewed from Svedmyra (tunnelbanestation). File:Gammelbyn Stureby 2012.jpg, Gammelbyn (earlier a retirement home) viewed from Svedmyra (tunnelbanestation). File:Biograf Corso 1950-tal.jpg, Cinema Corso in the 1950s. File:Svedmyra tram station Stockholm 1931 SM2030-1.jpg, 1931, a tram on the tram line Örbybanan heading to Slussen stops at the tram stop Svedmyran in Stureby. The road Tussmötevägen is in the foreground.

References

External links

nona.net entry for Stureby.
Districts of Stockholm {{stockholm-geo-stub