Flemingsberg railway station in white and the Police station in red brick and the jail, part of the district court house on the left. To the right of the railway station is the Södertörn University College.

Flemingsberg a southern suburb of Stockholm, Sweden, located in Huddinge Municipality in the south-western part of the contigous Stockholm urban area. South San Jose (cropjpg||thumb|A suburban development in San Jose California. ('stɔkhɔlm is Sweden 's Capital and its largest City. It is the site of the national Swedish government, the parliament, and the "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. Huddinge Municipality ( Huddinge kommun) is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. The Stockholm urban area (Stockholms tätort is the largest and most populous of the statistical localities or Urban areas in Sweden.

It is located approximately 15 minutes by Stockholm commuter rail from central Stockholm, or 30-45 minutes by car. Stockholm commuter rail (Stockholms pendeltåg is the commuter rail system in Stockholm County, Sweden. Flemingsberg has 12,000 inhabitants, around 12,300 people work there, and there are about 13,000 students.

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 manor. This article is about the medieval system "Manors" redirects here The village where the manor house was built in the 1600s was originally called Andersta but the name was changed when came in to the ownership of Henrik Fleming. A manor house or fortified manor-house is a Country house, which has historically formed the administrative centre of a manor (see Manorialism The current manor house was built in 1790.

The current buildings in Flemingsberg (also called Flempan for short) was built during the Million_Programme and for a long time there was trouble renting out all the apartments and the area become known as a very bad suburb. The Million Programme ( Miljonprogrammet) is the common name for an ambitious housing programme implemented in Sweden between 1965 and 1974 The two halfs was renamed Visätra and Grantorp as the name Flemingsberg gave bad associations. Today the name Flemingsberg is again used for the area and the rail road station.

Facilities

Moa's Crescent, the main building of Södertörn University College

• 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 Karolinska Institute (Karolinska institutet). Södertörn University College or Södertörns Högskola is a University college located in Flemingsberg and the larger area called Södertörn The Karolinska University Hospital (Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset is a university Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden, with two major sites in the municipalities Karolinska Institutet (often translated from Swedish into English as the Karolinska Institute, and in older texts often as the Royal Caroline
• Södertörn University College, (Södertörns högskola), inaugurated in 1996. Södertörn University College or Södertörns Högskola is a University college located in Flemingsberg and the larger area called Södertörn Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar)
• One campus of the Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan), is located in southern Stockholm. The Royal Institute of Technology or Kungliga Tekniska högskolan ( KTH) is a University in Stockholm, Sweden.
• Novum Research Park — Genomics and proteomics research and biological sciences park.

Railway station

Flemingsberg station, with an SL commuter train in the foreground

Flemingsberg is the name of a railway station on the Stockholm commuter rail line between Södertälje and Märsta, via central Stockholm. Stockholm commuter rail (Stockholms pendeltåg is the commuter rail system in Stockholm County, Sweden. is a city in Södermanland in east central Sweden about 30 km south of Stockholm, and is the seat of Södertälje Municipality, Märsta is a suburb of Metropolitan Stockholm, and the seat of Sigtuna Municipality in Sweden. ('stɔkhɔlm is Sweden 's Capital and its largest City. It is the site of the national Swedish government, the parliament, and the Trains usually ride within 15 minute intervals both ways. Some of the long distance trains also stop at Flemingsberg, such as the trains to Malmö, Gothenburg and Eskilstuna. Gothenburg ( Swedish:) /jœte'bɔrj/ is a city, a municipality, and an urban area on the west-coast of Sweden. Eskilstuna (ˈɛscɪlsˌtʰʉːna is a city in Södermanland, Sweden and the seat of Eskilstuna Municipality. Flemingsberg is one of Sweden's bigger railway stations in terms of the amount of passengers.