Tumba urban area
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Tumba in February 2006
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| Coordinates: 59°12′N 17°49′E / 59.200°N 17.817°ECoordinates: 59°12′N 17°49′E / 59.200°N 17.817°E | |
| Country | Sweden |
| Province | Södermanland |
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Botkyrka Municipality and Salem Municipality |
| Area | |
| • Total | 17.74 km2 (6.85 sq mi) |
| Population (31 December 2010) | |
| • Total | 37,852 |
| • Density | 2,134/km2 (5,530/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
Tumba is a bimunicipal locality and the seat of Botkyrka Municipality in , Sweden with 37,852 inhabitants in 2010. A part of its statistical urban area, called Rönninge, is in Salem Municipality. The population is 35,311 (2005). The Swedish krona banknotes are printed by Crane AB at Tumba Bruk, in Tumba. Tumba is situated half-way between and Södertälje and is considered a Stockholm suburb. In Tumba and Rönninge there are stations on the network.
Tumba also holds a High School (Tumba gymnasium) with almost 1.000 students. The Alfa Laval company was founded in Tumba by Gustaf de Laval and remains present in the suburb, as does DeLaval, split from Alfa Laval in 1991. Tumba is very diverse with both high-rise apartment buildings and single-family houses. Tumba also has a shopping mall, Tumba Centrum, situated by the railway station.
The melodic death metal band Amon Amarth is from Tumba.
What makes Tumba different from the communities in northern Botkyrka is that it doesn’t stem from a big farm with roots way back in time. The people of prehistory preferred to live close to the shores. Tumba was an inland country. That’s why traces of man during prehistory are relatively rare. The big change took place during 1755 when the bank of Sweden bought a small farm and started a papermill. Around the papermill came a community that developed with its own school and houses for the workers to live in. The next big step was taken when the railroad came in 1860. Soon afterwards a society started to grow around the stationhouse. This society had commerce, police, and a movie theatre. A few houses from that period are still left. In 1894 ‘Separator’ (DeLaval) bought Hamra Gard and transformed it into a farm specialized in milkprocessing. It soon became a big industry. From the beginning these three parts were separate but grew together. The communities of both the papermill and Hamra are well kept.
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