Flemingsberg is a southern suburb of Stockholm, Sweden that is located in Huddinge Municipality in the south-western part of the contiguous

Stockholm urban area The Stockholm urban area ( sv, Stockholms tätort) is the largest and most populous of the statistical localities or urban areas in Sweden. It has no administrative function of its own, but constitutes a continuous built-up area, which extends int ...

. It is located approximately 15 minutes by Stockholm commuter rail from central Stockholm, or 20–30 minutes by car. Flemingsberg has 12,000 inhabitants, around 12,300 people work there, and there are about 13,000 students studying at

Södertörn University Södertörn University ( sv, Södertörns högskola, abbreviated as SH) is a public university college ( sv, högskola) located in Flemingsberg in Huddinge Municipality, and the larger area called Södertörn, in Stockholm County, Sweden. In ...

. There is a railway station (''Flemingsberg'', formerly ''Stockholm Syd Flemingsberg''), a major hospital, a university college and there are also colourful high-rise residential buildings from the 1970s. Flemingsberg has also evolved as a law enforcement center for the southern part of metropolitan Stockholm, with police station, court house, prosecutor's office and a jail, all in buildings built in the 1990s onwards.

History

Flemingsberg gets its name from the Flemingsberg

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. The village where the

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was built in the 17th century was originally called Andersta but the name was changed when it came into the ownership of Henrik Fleming. The current manor house was built in 1790. The current buildings in Flemingsberg (also called "Flempan" for short) was built during the

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and for a long time there was trouble renting out all the apartments and the area become known as a very bad suburb. The two halves were renamed

Visättra Visättra (formerly Östra Flemingsberg) is a residential area in Flemingsberg in Huddinge municipality and included in the urban area of Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by populatio ...

and Grantorp as the name Flemingsberg gave bad associations. Today the name Flemingsberg is again used for the area and the railway station. One notable building is the Flemingsberg Church.

Facilities

*The former Huddinge University Hospital is now a part of Karolinska University Hospital at Huddinge in Flemingsberg and is associated with the medical university of

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(''Karolinska institutet''). *

(''Södertörns högskola''), inaugurated in 1996. *One campus of the

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(''Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan''), is located in southern Stockholm. *

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Railway station

Flemingsberg is the name of a railway station on the Stockholm commuter rail line between

Södertälje Södertälje ( , ) is a city in Södermanland and Stockholm County, Sweden and seat of Södertälje Municipality. As of 2017, it has 72,704 inhabitants. Södertälje is located at Mälarens confluence in to the Baltic Sea through the lock in ...

and

Märsta Märsta () is a suburb of Metropolitan Stockholm, a locality and the seat of Sigtuna Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 27,034 inhabitants in 2015. The town is situated close to Stockholm's main international airport, Arlanda. Even th ...

, via central Stockholm. Trains usually departs within 15 minute intervals both ways. Certain long distance trains with destinations such as

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, Gothenburg and

Eskilstuna Eskilstuna () is a city and the seat of Eskilstuna Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden. The city of Eskilstuna had 67,359 inhabitants in 2015, with a total population of 100,092 inhabitants in Eskilstuna municipality (2014). Eskilstuna h ...

also stop at Flemingsberg. Flemingsberg is one of Sweden's bigger railway stations in terms of the number of passengers. {{coord, 59, 13, 10, N, 17, 56, 30, E, type:city_source:kolossus-svwiki, display=title Metropolitan Stockholm Stockholm urban area