Stora Essingen

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Stora Essingen is a 73 acre island in Lake Mälaren, Sweden and at the same time a district of Stockholm municipality with 3,892 inhabitants Kungsholmen (2006). The island is very hilly and was formerly the name Hess rings.

Neighbouring districts are Fredhäll Stockholm, Lilla Essingen, Gröndal, Smedslätten, Äppelviken and Alvik. Stora Essingen was incorporated into the city of Stockholm as part of Bromma 1916. After several administrative reforms, the island is now part of the urban district of Kungsholmen. In addition to the Essinge Church of the architect Cyrillus Johansson, located on the highest point of the island and its bell tower is a highly visible landmark, there is a chapel of the Liberal Catholic Church (S: t Mikael och Alla Änglars kyrka ).

The first workers' houses and gazebos were built in the 1870s. From 1907 was the sale of individual plots of land, but it was only in 1929, after the inauguration of the first Essingebrücke, the interest increased significantly to this. Today, the area around the central square is characterized by multi-family homes and the other areas of the island through villas.

On December 15, 1928 Stora Essingen was connected to the bus and Stockholm 1945-1961 perverted trolley buses on the route to the island. The construction of the Essingeleden in the 1960s now tangent to a highway with two distinctive bridges the northeastern part of the island. The tram line ( Tvärbanan ) is recent. It was completed in 2000.

• Island ( Sweden)
• Island ( Europe)
• Sea Isle
• Mälaren
• Geography (Stockholm)
• District in Sweden