Saltsjöbaden

Coordinates: 59°17′10″N 18°17′14″E / 59.28611°N 18.28722°E / 59.28611; 18.28722
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Saltsjöbaden is a locality in Nacka Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 9,491 inhabitants in 2010.[1] It is on the Baltic Sea coast, deep in the Stockholm Archipelago.

History

Saltsjöbaden (lit. 'the Salt Sea baths') was developed as a resort by Knut Agathon Wallenberg, a member of the wealthy and influential Wallenberg family, from farmland which he bought in 1891 through a newly created railway company.

Saltsjöbaden was an independent municipality from 1909 to 1970. In 1971 it was reintegrated into Nacka Municipality.

The local railway (

Stockholm public transport system
.

Two luxurious hotels (1893) and a sanatorium were built, designed by architect Erik Josephson. The parish church, Uppenbarelsekyrkan (the "Church of the Epiphany"), was built in 1910–13 and designed by Ferdinand Boberg with decoration by Olle Hjortzberg and Carl Milles, among others. The remainder of the land bought by the railway company was subdivided into plots; with the railway facilitating communications with the city, Saltsjöbaden soon became a popular suburb for the upper and upper-middle classes who purchased plots and developed them with spacious private houses.

The

36614 Saltis
, discovered there in 2000, was named after a common nickname of the place. The hilltop premises are now a school.

The larger of the two hotels,

class compromise, or form of industrial relations in Sweden, the so-called "Saltsjöbaden spirit", marked by willingness to co-operate and a cross-class, collective sense of responsibility for developments in the national labour market and in the Swedish economy generally.[3]

In the world of

USSR,[4] and the 1952 Interzonal won by Alexander Kotov, also of the USSR.[5]

Grand Hotel Saltsjöbaden hosted the annual meeting of the

Bilderberg Group
in 1962, 1973 and 1984.

  • Grand Hotel Saltsjöbaden
    Grand Hotel Saltsjöbaden
  • The station house at Saltsjöbaden
    The station house at Saltsjöbaden
  • The view from the beach at Saltsjöbaden
    The view from the beach at Saltsjöbaden

Notable residents

  • Great Qing Imperial, visited Sweden after the failure of the Hundred Days' Reform. He bought an islet off Saltsjöbaden in 1904 and stayed there until he left Sweden in 1907. The islet is sometimes referred to in Chinese as Kang Youwei Island.[6][7]
  • poliomyelitis
    in 1907.
  • Alice Habsburg, aristocrat and Polish resistance figure, died in Saltsjöbaden in 1985.
  • John Engelbert, member in the rock duo Johnossi was born and grew up in Saltsjöbaden.
  • Fredrik Kessiakoff, two times Swedish Olympian was born and grew up in Saltsjöbaden.
  • Inger Brattström, author of many books for children, lived in Saltsjöbaden and died there in 2018, 97 years old.
  • Gabriel J Marian, born in Saltsjöbaden on February 28, 1949, famous immigrant to America in 1956 and subsequent raconteur of life and skiing

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km2 2005 och 2010" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 14 December 2011. Archived from the original on 27 January 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
  2. ^ "Statistiska tätorter 2020, befolkning, landareal, befolkningstäthet". Statistics Sweden. 31 December 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
  3. ^ The Saltjö agreement Archived 2006-03-11 at the Wayback Machine At the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions website.
  4. ^ Interzonal tournament, Saltsjöbaden 1948
  5. ^ Interzonal tournament, Saltsjöbaden 1952
  6. ^ Kang Youwei in Exile[permanent dead link](Chinese)
  7. ^ The nordic tales(Chinese)

External links

Media related to Saltsjöbaden at Wikimedia Commons

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