Gnesta

Gnesta is a locality ( tätort ) in the Swedish province of Södermanland County and municipal seat of the same name. The town is located between the cities of Södertälje and Nykoping on the railway line linking Stockholm with Gothenburg. A small portion (22 acres ) of the area of the village with 77 inhabitants ( 2010) belongs to the neighboring municipality of Södertälje the Stockholm County. This Gnesta is one of the 13 places (including 8 Tätorter ) of Sweden, situated on the territory of two provinces.

History

First Gnesta was a village that was first documented in 1383. It is believed that the settlement existed much earlier. The leap came in the mid-19th century with the establishment of a breakpoint on the new railway line. This station is no longer a train station but this end point of a branch line of the Stockholm subway. The station building was the model for a large number of Swedish stations. The former chief architect of the Swedish railway, Adolf Wilhelm Edelsvärd meant that smaller stations should have an attractive train station and it different prototypes were built in 10 locations. One of these models were built in Gnesta and by common consent in many other places.