Bollmora
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Tyresö Municipality
Tyresö Municipality is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden on the coast of the Baltic Sea. Its seat is located in Bollmora.Most of Tyresö Municipality lies within the Stockholm urban area.-History:...
in Sweden
Sweden
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. Together with major parts of the other two main districts of Tyresö, Trollbäcken
Trollbäcken
Trollbäcken is a district of Tyresö Municipality in Sweden. It is located south of Bollmora along county road 260. Trollbäcken contains almost exclusively detached houses. In the area of Trollbäcken centre , also known as Alléplan, there are some multi-apartment buildings and commercial...
and Old Tyresö
Old Tyresö
Old Tyresö is a district of Tyresö Municipality in Sweden. It consists of the eastern half of the municipality, containing the Tyresö Strand and Raksta areas, the long Brevik peninsula, and the vast forest in the south....
, Bollmora forms a conurbation
Conurbation
A conurbation is a region comprising a number of cities, large towns, and other urban areas that, through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban and industrially developed area...
with the Stockholm urban area
Stockholm urban area
The Stockholm urban area 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 multimunicipal built-up area, which extends into 11 municipalities in Stockholm County. It contains the...
.
Bollmora derives its name from Bollmora farm (Bollmora gård) which was located near current day Njupkärrsvägen–Industrivägen intersection. Up until the 1950s Bollmora was a village, but in conjunction to the large migration to Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
in 1950s and 1960s, Bollmora expanded. The large expansion was made possible by Lex Bollmora from 1959, a legislation that made possible for municipal real estate companies to operate in other municipalities than their own. The municipal real estate companies of Stockholm started immediately constructing in Bollmora after the legislation came into effect. Many of the apartment building areas of Bollmora are from the Million Programme
Million Programme
The Million Programme is the common name for an ambitious housing programme implemented in Sweden between 1965 and 1974 by the governing Swedish Social Democratic Party to make sure everyone could have a home at a reasonable price. The aim of the programme was to build a million new dwellings in a...
origin.
Bollmora centre (Bollmora centrum) was inaugurated in 1965, and it was fairly ordinary small-town centre with pedestrian streets. The centre underwent a major overhaul to an enclosed shopping mall
Shopping mall
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in early 1990s. It was renamed Tyresö centre
Tyresö centre
Tyresö centre is the municipal centre of Tyresö Municipality, Sweden, located in the Bollmora district. The municipal hall is located there inside Tyresö Centrum, an enclosed shopping mall....
(Tyresö centrum) and the new centre was inaugurated in 1992.
Lake Barnsjön
Barnsjön
Barnsjön is a small lake within the Tyresån Lake System in Tyresö Municipality south of Stockholm, Sweden.The lake, situated between the residential areas Trollbäcken and Bollmora, empties into Lake Tyresö-Flaten through the brook Prästängsdiket. It is regarded as an important local recreational...
is a popular spot for bathing and fishing.
Residential areas
The population of the residential areas typically associated with Bollmora, as of January 1, 2004- Bollmora: 8,494
- Krusboda: 3,717
- East/West Farmarstigen: 2,668
- Öringe: 2,548
- Granängsringen: 2,187
- Fårdala: 1,657
- Lindalen: 1,445
- Total: 22,716 — or 56.7% of the population of Tyresö Municipality.