Solberga is a district i

Söderort Söderort (literally "the southern place", sometimes translated to ''South Stockholm'') is the southern suburban part of the Stockholm Municipality, Sweden. It is also part of the city of Stockholm. Geography Söderort is located in the north ...

within

Stockholm municipality Stockholm Municipality () or the City of Stockholm () 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, making it the second most ...

and a part of Hägersten-Älvsjö borough. The district's main The district's main residential buildings are an example of the understated suburban architecture of the Swedish welfare state, developed in the 1950s and designed by renowned architects.Solberga: information till Dig som äger ett kulturhistoriskt värdefullt hus i ytterstaden. – Stockholm: Stockholms stadsmuseum. Kulturmiljöenheten, 2009
/ref> The name is given from a mountain in the woods, where the steep southern side of the mountain is missing trees. It gave name to the clergy house nearby in the 17th century, part of Brännkyrka socken. LM Ericsson's

cable plant In telecommunications, structured cabling is building or campus cabling infrastructure that consists of a number of standardized smaller elements (hence structured) called subsystems. Structured cabling components include twisted pair and opti ...

was built in the area in 1916, as a complement to the plant in

Telefonplan Telefonplan metro station ("Telephone Square") is an outdoor station on Line 14 in the Stockholm metro. The station is located in the borough of Hägersten. It was opened on 5 April 1964 as part of the first stretch of Metro 2, between T-Centr ...

. In 2016 the houses were transformed into residential area. In the 1950s,

villa A villa is a type of house that was originally an ancient Roman upper class country house that provided an escape from urban life. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa have evolved considerably. After the f ...

s were built, and was expanded with

multifamily residential Multifamily residential, also known as multidwelling unit (MDU), is a classification of housing where multiple separate housing units for residential inhabitants are contained within one building or several buildings within one complex. Units can ...

s as a part of

Million Programme The Million Programme () was a large public housing program implemented in Sweden between 1965 and 1974 by the governing Swedish Social Democratic Party to ensure the availability of affordable, high-quality housing to all Swedish citizens. Th ...

in 1960s. More houses were built in the 1980s close to Älvsjö train station. Today, the area has three squares: Kristalltorget, Klacktorget, and

Älvsjö stationsplan Älvsjö () is a district of the city of Stockholm Municipality in Sweden, located in the borough Älvsjö in Söderort. It has the biggest rentable facility in northern Europe called Stockholm International Fairs, and also the hotel Scandic ...

References

{{Reflist Neighbourhoods of Stockholm Ericsson