Brottby

Brottby is a locality situated in Vallentuna Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 262 inhabitants in 2018.^[1]Brottby is located in the northern part of Össeby-Garn parish and borders Stora Karby in the west, Prästgården in the west and Svista in the south. In the north, Brottby borders Sundby and Libby in the old Garns parish. Brottby is surrounded by a beautiful cultural environment and important historical land such as Långhundraleden, ancient remains and a rich bird life.

Brottby
Windmill in Brottby
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Coordinates: 59°34′N 18°15′E
Country	Sweden
Province	Uppland
County	Stockholm County
Municipality	Vallentuna Municipality
Area [1]
• Total	0.39 km2 (0.15 sq mi)
Population  (31 December 2020)[2]
• Total	248
• Density	640/km2 (1,600/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Locality code	T0116

Buildings

Össeby-Garn Church is a local parish church, located near the northern tip of Garnsviken. Built in the 13th century (with a porch added in the 15th), Össeby-Garn Church is a Romanesque stone church typical of Uppland. Two runestones have been placed outside the church, and another has been built into the church floor.^[3]

Össeby Church, situated some 1 km (0.6 mi) southwest of Össeby-Garn Church, was possibly built at the end of the 14th century. As the parishes of Össeby and Garn were merged in 1838, the Garn parish church (now Össeby-Garn Church) assumed the roles of Össeby Church whose building, already in a bad state of repair, was abandoned. Össeby Church was finally ruined in a fire in 1856.^[4]

Brottby kvarn is an eight-sailed paltrok mill (skenkvarn), an unusual type of windmill where the windmill body is supported on a ring of rollers on which it rotates to bring the sails into the wind.^[5] The windmill was built in the 1870s and ground grain until the late 1910s. After decades of decay, the mill was restored between 1989 and 1993 with six sails. Between 2010 and 2015 the windmill machinery was restored, allowing the mill to operate again, and the mill was re-equipped with its original number of eight sails.^[6][7][8][9]

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  Ruins of Össeby Church
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  Össeby-Garn Church
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  Runestone U 181
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  Brottby gård
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  Brottby kvarn

References

1. "Localities 2018 – population, land area, population density". Statistics Sweden. 24 October 2019. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
2. "Statistiska tätorter 2020, befolkning, landareal, befolkningstäthet". Statistics Sweden. 31 December 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
3. "Össeby-Garns kyrka" (PDF) (in Swedish). Diocese of Stockholm. 2008. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
4. Henschen, Ingegerd; Tuulse, Armin (1953). Kyrkor i Vallentuna härad: östra delen (in Swedish). Stockholm: Generalstabens litografiska anstalt. pp. 38–49. SELIBR 19512813.
5. Notebaart, Jannis C. (2015) [1972]. Windmühlen: Der Stand der Forschung über das Vorkommen und den Ursprung (in German). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. p. 21. ISBN 978-3-11-081551-1.
6. "Besöksmål Brottby, Kvarnbacken" (in Swedish). Stockholm County Museum. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
7. Bellberg, Hedvig (2014). "Antikvarisk medverkan vid rekonstruktion av maskineriet i Brottby skenkvarn, Össeby-Garns socken, Vallentuna kommun, Uppland" (PDF) (in Swedish). Stockholm County Museum. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
8. "Klart att mala i Brottby". Mitt i (in Swedish). 3 August 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
9. "Föreningens historia" (in Swedish). Össeby hembygdsförening. Retrieved 24 November 2019.