Hammarby gård, Residential complex in Hammarby Sjöstad, Sweden.
Hammarby gård was a manor and estate whose main building stood by present-day Hammarbyvägen 41–47 in Södra Hammarbyhamnen until it was demolished in 1945. The manor house was flanked by two detached wings and reached by a long linden-lined avenue from Dalarövägen at Skanstull. The estate is first mentioned in writing in 1330.
Hammarby gård is first mentioned in writing in 1330, when it was a village of four farms; by 1543 only two remained and from 1562 just one. From 1551 the estate belonged to Danvikens Hospital. A royal decree of 14 February 1727 transferred it from Brännkyrka parish to Sicklaö parish, and the city of Stockholm bought the estate in 1917. Its buildings were demolished from the late 1930s for the Hammarby industrial area, the main building last in 1945.
The name Hammarby is shared by the demolished manor, a present-day industrial block in Södra Hammarbyhamnen and the Hammarbyverket plant. Several of the estate's former crofts gave their names to districts and suburbs of southern Stockholm: Kärrtorp, and Nytorp behind Nytorps gärde, Nytorpsbadet and Nytorpsskolan. Korphopp inspired the block name and Korphoppsgatan.
The manor stood by what is now Hammarbyvägen 41–47 in Södra Hammarbyhamnen, near the site of the Lumafabriken factory built in the late 1920s. A long linden-lined avenue once led here from Dalarövägen at Skanstull, roughly level with Fredriksdal. Nothing of the main building survives, so look for the street and the park rather than a manor.
The manor's landholdings were vast: the estate owned the hamlet of Barnängen on Södermalm until 1698, and its former crofts gave their names to several southern Stockholm districts, among them Kärrtorp and the street Korphoppsgatan. A boundary stone, Vita gränsstenen, once marked the meeting of the Hammarby, Enskede gård and Skarpnäcks gård estates.
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