Örby is a residential area in Söderort, Stockholm Municipality

Stockholm Municipality

Stockholm Municipality or the City of Stockholm is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. It is the largest of the 290 municipalities of the country in terms of population, but one of the smaller in terms of area, making it the most densely populated...

, 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....

. It has an area of 159 hectare

Hectare

The hectare is a metric unit of area defined as 10,000 square metres , and primarily used in the measurement of land. In 1795, when the metric system was introduced, the are was defined as being 100 square metres and the hectare was thus 100 ares or 1/100 km2...

s and 4,720 inhabitants.

Örby got its name from the Örby Manor (Örby slott), which also has given name to the neiboughring residential area of Örby slott

Örby slott

Örby slott is a residential area in Söderort, Stockholm Municipality, Sweden. It has an area of 67 hectares and 1,603 inhabitants.Örby got its name from the Örby Manor situated in the area, which also has given name to the neiboughring residential area of Örby. The modern area was created in 1956...

. Örby was instituted as a so called "municipalsamhälle" (a kind of borough within a rural municipality) within Brännkyrka

Brännkyrka

Brännkyrka is a parish in South Stockholm, Sweden. The population is 36,572.Brännkyrka, at that time much larger in area, was amalgamated into the city of Stockholm in 1913. This area now constitutes the southern main part of Stockholm Municipality called Söderort...

 in 1904. The area was amalgamated with the City of Stockholm

Stockholm Municipality

Stockholm Municipality or the City of Stockholm is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. It is the largest of the 290 municipalities of the country in terms of population, but one of the smaller in terms of area, making it the most densely populated...

 in 1913 and the municipalsamhälle was dissolved. In the present administration of the city, it is part of the Enskede-Årsta-Vantör stadsdelsnämndsområde (borough).

Communications

Örby was served by tram

Tram

A tram is a passenger rail vehicle which runs on tracks along public urban streets and also sometimes on separate rights of way. It may also run between cities and/or towns , and/or partially grade separated even in the cities...

s between 1930 and 1951 (line 19

Line 19 (Stockholm Metro)

Line 19 is one of the three green lines of the Stockholm Metro connecting Hässelby strand and Hagsätra. It is a 28.6 km long line with a 55 min travel time and 35 stations, making it the longest line in the Stockholm Metro.-History:...

, at the time called Örbybanan, "the Örby line"), but has now bus connections with the Stockholm Metro

Stockholm Metro

The Stockholm Metro is a metro system in Stockholm, Sweden. The first line opened in 1950, and today the system has 100 stations in use, of which 47 are underground and 53 above ground. There are seven lines numbered from 10 to 19, in three groups identified by a color: the Green, Red and Blue lines...

 at the stations in Bandhagen

Bandhagen metro station

Bandhagen metro station is on the green line of the Stockholm Metro, located in Bandhagen, Söderort. The station was inaugurated on October 22, 1954. The distance to Slussen is 6.5 km.-External links:*...

 and Högdalen

Högdalen metro station

Högdalen metro station is on the green line of the Stockholm Metro, located in Högdalen, Söderort, Stockholm Municipality. The station was inaugurated on November 22, 1954. The distance to Slussen is 7,3 km...

 as well as the Stockholm commuter rail

Stockholm commuter rail

Stockholm Commuter Rail is the commuter rail system in Stockholm County, Sweden. The system is an important part of the public transport in Stockholm, and is controlled by Stockholm Transport; the trains are operated under contract by Stockholmståg...

 station at Älvsjö

Älvsjö

Älvsjö is a district of the city of Stockholm Municipality in Sweden. Located in Söderort and a district in the borough Älvsjö. It has the biggest rentable facility in northern Europe called Stockholm International Fairs. In 2008, total population was 956 inhabitants....

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Schools

The first school in Örby was called the "red school" because of its wall colour. It was built in 1904. This was replaced by Örby skola in 1915, drawn by architect Georg A. Nilsson. It looks exactly like the schools in Gamla Enskede

Gamla Enskede

Gamla Enskede, "the garden city," is a district of Enskede-Årsta borough, South Stockholm, Sweden. It was created in 1904 to provide housing for workers, and is...

 and Långbro and is sometimes misstaken for a church due to its size and shape.

Sports

The sports club Örby IS was founded in 1912 and is still active to this day, with association football, floorball

Floorball

Floorball, a type of floor hockey, is an indoor team sport which was developed in the 1970s in Sweden. Floorball is most popular in areas where the sport has developed the longest, such as the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. The game is played...

 and ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

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