Linnaeus Hammarby

Linnaeus' Hammarby is a farm in the Swedish municipality of Uppsala about 15 km southeast of the city of Uppsala.

Hammarby was first mentioned in 1337 as the nobleman Olof Styrbjörnsson from home limits the goods sold to the canons of the Cathedral of Uppsala. By sale and inheritance of the farm changed over the nobility Läma, Stewardt, Gärffelt and Fries Dorff to Hofjägermeister A. Schoenberg. He sold the estate in 1758 and the lying near Good Sävja and nine other land for 80,000 dollars to Carl Linnaeus.

When Linnaeus took over the property, there were only the two wooden buildings, which are the flanks. First he let the present two-storey main building built of wood and in the rear part of the farm was in 1769 a museum of stone to do so. This building in which Linnaeus kept his collections is preserved.

Linnaeus had a habit with his students carry out excursions to the estate Hammarby, the breakfast and was taken on the estate Hammarby supper on the estate Sävja. The farm is now managed by the University of Uppsala and has the status of an architectural monument.