Södertörn

Södertörn is a roughly triangular peninsula in the east of the Swedish historic province of Södermanland. The border is formed in the north of Lake Mälaren and the Bay Saltsjön, in the west bays Himmerfjärden and Hallsfjärden as well as the east and south the Baltic Sea. The connections to the mainland are now broken through the channels at Hammarby Södertälje and Stockholm district.

The north of the peninsula is wavy with wooded or barren hills. Here is Sweden's smallest National Park, Tyresta. In the central part of the increased forest landscape Hanveden lies with Södertörns highest mountain, Tornberget 110.9 meters above the sea. In the south of spreading agricultural plains with scattered surveys. The original bedrock consists almost everywhere of gneiss.

The name on Södertörn moved over time by Tor ( 1283) on Tørinne ( 1383 ) (since 1645), is comparable tor with the Norwegian dialect word which means " cut-up rock beach ". This is also a good description of the coast of the peninsula.

For a long time Södertörn relatively unaffected by its proximity to Stockholm. The farmers worked poor soils and only in the vicinity of the manor houses, the earth and the yields were better. In the towns on the coast fisheries dominated. Only at the end of the 19th century, Stockholm spread noticeably to the south. This was mainly a merit of the new railway lines Västra stambanan and Nynäsbanan.

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• Sodertorn.se

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