Duvbo is a residential area in
Sundbyberg
Sundbyberg Municipality ( or ''Sundbybergs stad'') is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden, just north of the capital Stockholm. Sundbyberg is wholly within the Stockholm urban area and has a 100% urban population.
Sundbybe ...
in suburban
Stockholm
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,
Sweden
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. In 2019 it had 2217 inhabitants.
The
Duvbo metro station is located in
central Sundbyberg
Central Sundbyberg () is the oldest and longest-established part of Sundbyberg Municipality in Sweden. It is a railway town and one of Stockholm's oldest satellite towns, built around Sundbyberg railway station which opened in 1876. Its proximity ...
, just outside (300m) Duvbo and is part of the
Stockholm Metro. It was inaugurated on August 19, 1985.
In 1899 the property Dufvebol, then in Spånga municipality, was sold to a suburb development company, which split the land and built roads, naming it '' Dufbo egna-hems-koloni'' (Duvbo own home community). After 5 years the suburb was nearly complete, housing 1200 residents.
[ From 1900 trains stopped at the nearby (400m) station Sundbyberg Norra (named so because it was in the north-west of the adjacent suburb Sundbyberg) was opened, until 1963. In 1902 Duvbo became a ''municipalsamhälle'' (submunicipality), until 1949 when it transferred into Sundbyberg municipality.]
/ref> Today Ekbacken is instead an elderly care home, next to a few tall residential buildings.
References
Neighbourhoods of Stockholm
Sundbyberg Municipality
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