Stocksund

Stockby Farm

Stockby Farm likely has origins from the end of the 13th century, but settlements in the area are older than that — a stone cairn southwest of today's farm building bears witness to this. Originally, Stockby, as the name ending suggests, was a village with several farms.

Magnus Ladulås donated Stockby in Danderyd to Santa Klara Convent. The name appears in a public document for the first time in 1361, and in 1498 Stockby is mentioned as falling under the Djursholm estate.

In 1740, the vicar Johan Älf, one of the farm's many lessees, had the main building torn down and erected the current one in two storeys and manor house style. The farm was separated from the Djursholm estate in 1853 and subsequently changed hands several times — among the owners was Johan August Hazelius, father of Artur Hazelius, founder of the Nordic Museum.

The Villa Community

Stocksund grew at the end of the 19th century on land that belonged to the Djursholm estate, at roughly the same time as the neighbouring villa town of Djursholm was founded in 1889.

It was a movement: Storängen, Saltsjöbaden, Djursholm and Södertörn's villa town were all laid out at the same time, and all along new railway lines — the Saltsjö Railway, the Roslagen Railway, the Nynäs Railway. Those who could afford it, often senior civil servants, moved out of the city and built villas at a proper distance from the "unhealthy" metropolis.

In 1888, Stockby AB was founded, which purchased the Stockby Farm property from the estate of Bishop Frithiof Grafström.

The Tower That Took a Hundred Years

Cedergren Tower began construction in 1896 by gamekeeper Albert Cedergren, on the highest point of his plot — he was the first to purchase land from Stockby AB. The tower was built in red brick, in romanticized medieval style and using old building methods, and several architects were involved along the way, including Ferdinand Boberg and Lars Israel Wahlman.

Cedergren seems to have been more interested in the building process itself than in completing the tower. The exterior was finished in 1908, but at his death in 1921, the interior still awaited completion — and had to continue waiting. The tower was inherited, fell into disrepair, and was only rescued when Danderyd Municipality purchased it in 1981.

Construction was finally completed in 1994–1996, and the tower was inaugurated on April 21, 1996 — exactly a hundred years after construction began. It is listed as a protected building and today serves as a venue for celebrations and conferences.

The tower has become a symbol for Stocksund. It can be seen on the right when travelling northward over the bridges at Stocksund — a landmark at the entrance to Roslagen.

Things to See

• Stockby Farm — extended and rebuilt and sensitively renovated, in the Kammarherren district.
• Petruskyrkan Church — from 1962, on a height in the Mörby area.
• Stocksund's shores — several small boat harbours along the sound.

Tranholmen

The municipal area also includes the island Tranholmen, whose buildings form their own locality.

How to Get Here

Roslagen Railway. E18 passes just nearby, at Stocksund Bridge.