Åkersberga is a locality

Urban areas in Sweden

Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality. There are 1,940 localities in Sweden . They could be compared with census-designated places in the United States.A tätort in Sweden has a minimum of...

 and the seat of Österåker Municipality

Österåker Municipality

Österåker Municipality is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Åkersberga, with a population of 26,727 .From 1974 to 1982 Österåker was part of Vaxholm Municipality....

, Stockholm County

Stockholm County

Stockholm County is a county or län on the Baltic sea coast of Sweden. It borders Uppsala County and Södermanland County. It also borders Mälaren and the Baltic Sea. The city of Stockholm is the capital of Sweden. Stockholm County is divided by the historic provinces of Uppland and Södermanland...

, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 with 26,727 inhabitants in 2005.

History

In 1901 a railway station named Berga was opened on this rural spot some 30 km from Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

. Some shops and a post office followed. The name Berga was changed to Åkers Berga to avoid confusion with other Berga in Sweden and later the present name Åkersberga evolved. After WWII the small village grew and blocks of flats were built. Åkersberga gradually evolved into a suburb with many of its inhabitants commuting to their work-places in Stockholm.

In the last decades Åkersberga has adopted a more urban character. Between 1974 and 1982 Åkersberga was the seat of Vaxholm Municipality

Vaxholm Municipality

Vaxholm Municipality is a municipality within Stockholm archipelago in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. The municipal slogan is "Vaxholm – the capital of the archipelago", due to its central location in the archipelago...

. When the municipality was split in 1983 Åkersberga became seat of the reinstituted Österåker Municipality.

Some notable people from Åkersberga include Jesper Parnevik

Jesper Parnevik

Jesper Bo Parnevik is a Swedish professional golfer. He spent 38 weeks in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings in 2000 and 2001.-Early years:...

, Alexander Östlund

Alexander Östlund

Jan Alexander Östlund is a retired Swedish football player. He was released from Esbjerg fB on 25 January 2010 because of too many injuries and the same day Östlund announced that he would retire from football because of his bad knee.-Sweden:Östlund started his career in the club IFK Österåker in...

 and Richard S. Johnson. The nationally famous punk rock

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 band Coca Carola

Coca Carola

Coca Carola was a Swedish Punk band formed in Åkersberga in 1986. Signed to the record label Beat Butchers they were well known to the Swedish punk scene together with bands such as Asta Kask and Köttgrottorna...

 is also from Åkersberga. Another two nationally famous Åkersberga bands is Lustans Lakejer

Lustans Lakejer

Lustans Lakejer is a Swedish New Wave group formed in 1978, subsequently led by singer-songwriter Johan Kinde who has been the only permanent member throughout their career...

 and Eskobar

Eskobar

Eskobar is the name of a Swedish indie/pop band that was founded in 1996 some 30 kilometres north of Stockholm, in the small town of Åkersberga...

, Lustans Lakejer have also released an album named Åkersberga.

Åkerberga is served by the narrow-gauge urban railway Roslagsbanan

Roslagsbanan

-SL southern network:*Stockholms östra–Djursholms Ösby–Roslags Näsby–Vallentuna–Lindholmen–Kårsta *Stockholms östra–Djursholms Ösby–Roslags Näsby–Åkersberga–Österskär...

, which has three stops in the town, Åkersberga, Tunagård and Österskär

Österskär

Österskär is eastern part of Åkersberga, Österåker Municipality in Sweden. It hosts the terminal station of the Stockholm suburban railway Roslagsbanan....

.

Sports

The following sports clubs are located in Åkersberga:

• IFK Österåker FK
  IFK Österåker FK
  IFK Österåker FK is a Swedish football club located in Åkersberga. -Background:IFK Österåker FK currently plays in Division 4 Stockholm Norra which is the sixth tier of Swedish football. They play their home matches at the Åkersberga IP in Åkersberga....
  
  
• Roslagskulla IF
  Roslagskulla IF
  Roslagskulla IF is a Swedish football club located in Åkersberga. -Background:Roslagskulla IF currently plays in Division 4 Stockholm Norra which is the sixth tier of Swedish football. They play their home matches at the Lötvallen in Åkersberga....