Hölö
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Hölö is a locality
Urban areas in Sweden
Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality. There are 1,940 localities in Sweden . They could be compared with census-designated places in the United States.A tätort in Sweden has a minimum of...

 situated in Södertälje Municipality
Södertälje Municipality
Södertälje Municipality is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Södertälje....

, Stockholm County
Stockholm County
Stockholm County is a county or län on the Baltic sea coast of Sweden. It borders Uppsala County and Södermanland County. It also borders Mälaren and the Baltic Sea. The city of Stockholm is the capital of Sweden. Stockholm County is divided by the historic provinces of Uppland and Södermanland...

, Sweden
Sweden
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 with 1,199 inhabitants in 2005. It lies near the lake Långsjön and is slightly north of Vagnhärad
Vagnhärad
Vagnhärad is a locality situated in Trosa Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 3,221 inhabitants in 2005.- Landslide :On the 23rd of May 1997 a big landslide damaged or destroyed more than 7 residential houses when they were literally falling into Trosaån, the Trosa river...

 and south of Södertälje
Södertälje
Södertälje is a city and the seat of Södertälje Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 86,069 inhabitants in 2010.The industrial city, about south of Stockholm, is the home to truck maker Scania AB and a top 10 pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca....

.

History

Hölö stopped being its own municipality in 1971, when it was incorporated with Södertälje municipality. Formerly Hölö municipality reached over a greater area near the western bank of Himmerfjärd. The municipality of Mörkö had been included in Hölö municipality since 1952. Hölö’s probably most important industry was Edeby marble quarry which didn’t only export it’s greengrey marble 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...

 but also to other European countries. The corporation was established in 1922 and shut down in 1978.

Community

Hölö is near Vagnhärad
Vagnhärad
Vagnhärad is a locality situated in Trosa Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 3,221 inhabitants in 2005.- Landslide :On the 23rd of May 1997 a big landslide damaged or destroyed more than 7 residential houses when they were literally falling into Trosaån, the Trosa river...

 and Södertälje, south of Stockholm. Village services include a food store, pizzeria, cycle store, kayak rental and a post office or "kiosk". Nearby there are some renoun restaurants including Oaxens Skärgårskrog, Skansholmens Sjökrog and Tullgarns Värdshus at Tullgarns castle. Other than that, Hölö has an elementary school with athletic grounds and community library. The Scout Corps of Hölö is a part of the Swedish Scout federation SSF (Svenska Scoutförbundet) and Södertörns Scoutdistrikt. It was founded in the beginning of the 1960s. If you live in Hölö you usually live in a villa, or in the new apartments that were built to cope with the population growth.

Communication

Hölö train station was closed in the 1950s and today doesn’t have a train station
Train station
A train station, also called a railroad station or railway station and often shortened to just station,"Station" is commonly understood to mean "train station" unless otherwise qualified. This is evident from dictionary entries e.g...

. The nearest being Vagnhärad or Södertälje Syd. Regular local "SL" buses service the village.
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