Älgö is a
locality
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situated in
Nacka Municipality
Nacka Municipality () is a municipality in Stockholm County in east-central Sweden. Its seat is located at Nacka. The municipality is situated just east of the Swedish capital, Stockholm, and its western parts are considered a suburban part of ...
,
Stockholm County, Sweden. It is also a peninsula next to
Saltsjöbaden
Saltsjöbaden is a locality in Nacka Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 9,491 inhabitants in 2010. It is on the Baltic Sea coast, deep in the Stockholm Archipelago.
History
Saltsjöbaden () was developed as a resort by Knut Agathon W ...
, in
Stockholm Archipelago
The Stockholm Archipelago () is the largest archipelago in Sweden, and the second-largest archipelago in the Baltic Sea (the largest being the Archipelago Sea across the Baltic in Finland). Part of the archipelago has been designated as a Rams ...
. Älgö is surrounded by
Baggensfjärden,
Ingaröfjärden and
Erstaviken.
Since 2015, the settlement has been constituted as its own urban area. The town already met the resident requirement for an urban area (200) by a very wide margin, but then had too high a proportion of leisure properties.
History
Älgö, which then belonged to
Brännkyrka
Brännkyrka is a parish in South Stockholm, Sweden. The population is 36,572.
Brännkyrka, at that time much larger in area, was amalgamated into the city of Stockholm in 1913. This area now constitutes the southern main part of Stockholm Muni ...
parish, was mentioned for the first time in 1416 ('in Alghøø') when Katarina Erengisledotter redeemed 2/3 of the island from Kristoffer and Peter Kruse. In a land register for Årsta estates, probably from 1529, a farm on Älgön is occupied. Gabriel Kristersson (Oxenstierna) owned this croft in 1652, which then annually paid 2 öre money, 6 days' work and fodder for three horses in lease. In 1573, two tithe-obliging farmers were recorded on Älgö.
[''Det medeltida Sverige'' 2:1 Tören]
References
Populated places in Nacka Municipality
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