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9 unusual facts about Södermalm


Football derbies in Sweden

Djurgården's home ground was located adjacent to the affluent neighbourhood of Östermalm, while Hammarby is from Södermalm.

Johan Östblom

Johan Östblom (born 21 April 1982) is a Swedish bandy player who played as a half back for the club Hammarby IF Bandy in the Södermalm district of Stockholm from 2008-2012.

Kristina Axén Olin

Axén Olin is a music teacher by profession and served until her appointment as Social Service Commissioner as the assistant principal of Maria Elementar, a private school in the Stockholm district of Södermalm.

Lennart Skoglund

After 13 years as a pro in Italy, where he also played for Sampdoria and Palermo, he returned to his native Södermalm and Hammarby in 1964.

Noko Jeans

About two weeks later, on December 18, 2009, Noko Jeans opened their own department museum on Södermalm, Stockholm.

Söder tea

Söder tea (tea from Södermalm - a district of Stockholm) or Söderblandning (blend from Södermalm) is a Swedish blend of tea made from black tea, tropical fruits and flowers.

The blend was invented in 1979 by Vernon Mauris and is named after the area Södermalm in Stockholm where his shop is located.

Sven Bergqvist

Sven Bergqvist grew up in a working class home in the south parts of Stockholm known as Södermalm.

Uppland Runic Inscription 53

As preserved written records from the old town give no hints of a developed knowledge in writing and reading runes in Stockholm and as these stones are too heavy to be transported very far, they are believed to have been brought in from the surrounding rural outskirts of the city, presumably from any of the Iron Age settlements of which traces have been discovered on both Norrmalm and Södermalm and considerably older than the city itself.


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Christian Pontus Andersson

Christian Pontus Andersson (born 1977) is a Swedish artist and sculptor, living in Södermalm, Stockholm.

Eugène Jansson

He lived his whole life together with his mother and brother at Södermalm, the southern part of Stockholm, and eventually in a house at Bastugatan 40, on a height with a view over Riddarfjärden, Gamla stan and the entire central Stockholm.

Johanneshovsbron

Overpassing two older bridges, Skansbron and Skanstullsbron, and one newer bridge, Fredriksdalsbron, it connects Södermalm and the tunnel passing under it, Söderledstunneln, to Johanneshov, the district immediately south of the historical city centre, and national road 73, leading out of the city.

Katarina-Sofia

Katarina-Sofia was made up of the eastern half of Södermalm and Hammarby Sjöstad (Södra Hammarbyhamnen).


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