Näsbypark is a district in
Täby Municipality, north of
Stockholm
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,
Sweden
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.
Geography
Näsbypark is located in the extreme southeastern part of the municipality next to
Stora Värtan, an inlet of the
Baltic Sea
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. It is bordered to the north by the neighbourhood of
Viggbyholm and to the west by the neighbourhoods of
Roslags Näsby and
Näsbydal, which are separated from Näsbypark by the
E18 motorway. To the south, Näsbypark is bordered by the neighbourhood of
Lahäll, with the
Sågtorpsvägen road generally defined as the border between the two.
History
The name Näsbypark derives from the former park at
Näsby Manor, which was designed by
Nicodemus Tessin the Elder.
The manor was totally demolished by a fire in 1897 and was rebuilt in 1902 by Carl Robert Lamm.
[''Forntid till Köping'', history of Täby on the Municipality of Täby official web pag]
[
] Today, Näsby manor is a conference center.
The neighbourhood is characterized by detached houses mainly built between 1940-1970.
Transportation
Näsbypark station is the terminal station of line 29 on the
narrow-gauge
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge (distance between the rails) narrower than . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and .
Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curv ...
Roslagsbanan railway, 11.8 km from Östra Station in central Stockholm. Roslagsbanan also stops at Näsby Allé station (11 km from Östra Station in Central Stockholm) in southern Näsbypark. Connections to central Stockholm are either by the
E18 motorway or the
Roslagsbanan
Roslagsbanan () is a Narrow-gauge railway, narrow-gauge commuter railway system in Roslagen, Stockholm County, Sweden. Its combined route length is and there are 38 stations. It is built to the Swedish three foot gauge railways, Swedish three fo ...
train service.
Notable residents
The previous Prime Minister of Sweden,
Fredrik Reinfeldt
John Fredrik Reinfeldt (pronounced ; born 4 August 1965) is a Swedish economist, lecturer, former Prime Minister of Sweden from 2006 to 2014 and chairman of the liberal conservative Moderate Party from 2003 to 2015. He was the last rotating Presi ...
, grew up in Näsbypark and he lived there with his wife,
Filippa Reinfeldt, prior to moving to the Prime Minister's mansion in central Stockholm.
References
External links
Official website of Täby Municipality
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Täby Municipality