Folke Ericsson byggnads AB
Folke Ericsson byggnds AB was a construction company founded by Erik Folke Ericsson in Stockholm that existed between 1943 and 1998. Since 1998, the company’s name has been changed to Lennart Ericsson Fastigheter AB, which was founded by Folke Ericsson’s son Lennart.
The construction company Folke Ericsson was registered in 1943 in Stockholm by the master builder and bricklayer Erik Folke Ericsson. He was born in 1905 in Lerbäck , Örebro county as the son of the builder Gustav Otto Ericsson. Folke Ericsson was active as a building carpenter in Örebro and as a carpenter in Stockholm until 1937. After the start of his own construction business, Ericsson was mainly focused on the construction of residential and office buildings under his own auspices, but also took on assignments from municipal and private clients. His first major construction was 18 apartments at Bäckvägen 147–149 in the Hägerstensåsen district . It was followed in 1951 by the property Störtloppet 3 in Västertorp , a business and residential building near Västertorpsplan, designed by Ancker-Gate-Lindegren architect office. In 1952, together with Karl Holmberg, he formed Holmberg & Ericsson Byggnads AB (HEBA), which still exists.
In 1968, the company was converted into a limited company. At that time Folke Eriksson built, among other things, the Hägerstensbrinken townhouse area together with competitor John Mattson . In 1988, the subsidiaries Folke Ericsson Bygg AB and Folke Ericsson Förvaltnings AB were formed with the task of conducting contracting activities and property management. In 1992, the parent company Folke Ericsson Byggnads AB acquired, among other things, the management company Hagsätra Centrum AB and thus became the owner of Hagsätra centrum . The following year, the head office was moved from Sandhamnsgatan 71 to its own office property, Danvikcenter , which was one of the company’s largest buildings, built in 1986 mainly for Viking Line .
In 1996, most of the property portfolio was sold to Fabege . In 1998 Folke Ericsson died and in the same year Folke Ericsson Bygg AB was sold to Norwegian Selmer ASA. At the same time, Folke Ericsson Byggnads AB changes its name to Lennart Ericsson Fastigheter AB and Folke Ericsson Förvaltnings AB to Lennart Ericsson Projektutveckling AB. Folke Ericsson’s son, Lennart S Ericsson (born 1940), is behind the companies. Since 1971, he was employed at Folke Ericssons byggnads AB and until 1998 the company’s managing director. Lennart Ericsson Fastigheter AB is now a purely real estate company with management of its own and external properties as its main task.
Hägersten sauce
The area formerly belonged partly to Västberga farm and partly to Hägerstens farm . Right up until the 1930s, the area was undeveloped. Most of the land was owned by the company Olsson & Rosenlund . In 1937 the company contacted the municipality and asked for a town plan to be drawn up for their area, the company owned the land north of the current Sedelvägen. The City Planning Office produced one, and according to it, the area would consist of narrow houses and a small number of villas. A number of houses were also built, but due to the Second World War the rate of development was slow.
The city plan was changed in 1943. Following a proposal from the architectural office Ancker-Gate-Lindegren, they wanted to try new urban planning ideas brought from abroad. Instead of spreading out all the shops as in other city districts, they wanted to gather them in a single place, at the current Riksdalertorget. In addition, they wanted common meeting rooms in the center. The streets and blocks were named in connection with the economy.
Construction gained new momentum in 1947–1948. In the center, as an exclamation point, a nine-storey high-rise was built according to drawings by Ancker-Gate-Lindegren. Hägerstensåsen’s post office , designed by architect Erik Lallerstedt , was also built here . It wasn’t until September 29, 1957 that Hägerstensåsen’s civic center could be inaugurated, architect Bengt Gate at Ancker-Gate-Lindegren. The southern part of the district was built in the late 1940s with slatted houses . In 1948, Hägerstensåsen’s school was added , which was designed by Sweden’s foremost school architect, Paul Hedqvist .
During the 1990s, many houses were renovated or rebuilt. New houses were built at Riksdalertorget and a new shop could be inaugurated in 1995. In addition, new houses were built over the subway tracks.
The district Hägerstensåsen was formed on February 1, 1948, before that the area was in the districts Västberga and Hägersten . Between November 18, 1945 and April 5, 1964, tram line 17 went here, then came the subway (see Hägerstensåsen subway station )
Lerbck is a small town in Askersund municipality , also a church village in Lerbäck parish in the north-eastern part of Askersund municipality .
Society
Lerbäck’s community is located next to the Hallsberg – Mjölby railway , approximately 12 km northeast of Askersund . National highway 50 passes just west of the town. Lerbäck’s church and Lerbäck’s homestead are located approximately 1 km northeast of the community.
Business life
In Lerbäck’s old church village, next to the church is the Hotel PerOlofGården . Here there is a park environment at Kyrksjön (128 m above sea level) . The park has a large hedge maze Lerbäck’s Labyrinth has memories of old times – the dance floor and the music stage. In Lerbäck there is also the Lerbäck hotel and guest house and Lerbäck’s Theater . The latter is run in the premises of the old inn and is a very popular destination for theatre-goers, gourmands and gourmets. Among other things, the owners and creators of the theater Johan and Jenny Gille won the award as “Rural Entrepreneur of the Year” in Sweden in 2009.
Henriksdal traffic plaza
Construction of the Henriksdal interchange began in the early 1960s. Before that there was a regular T-intersection between Värmdövägen and Kvarnholmsvägen which was just north of Henriksdal station where road traffic had to coexist with Saltsjöbanan traffic. The original city plan from 1960 proposed a graded crossing in the shape of a half cloverleaf to be built south of Henriksdal station. [ 1 ] Saltsjöbana’s tracks were to be carried on a short viaduct over Kvarnholmsvägen. The viaduct located in Nacka municipality was built, however, but not the planned intersection.
The western part of the traffic area, which is located in Stockholm municipality, received a new city plan in 1975 which meant that Värmdövägen could be widened to six lanes from the Danvikskanalen to the intersection with Kvarnholmsvägen in connection with the expansion of Stadsgårdsleden . In addition, it was stipulated that the intersection would continue to be light-regulated
Redevelopment plans
In connection with Danvikslösen , an urban development project between Stockholm’s and Nacka’s municipalities from 2003, it was proposed that a new district center, called Danvikstull, should be built on and adjacent to an overbuilt and planned Henriksdal interchange. Värmdövägen was to be tunneled through Henriksdalsberget , instead of around the mountain as it is now. The project would also enable new residential developments. [ 3 ] Construction was planned to start in 2012, but the project was stopped and is currently (2021) dormant.
The office building
The plot was acquired in 1981 by Folke Ericsson byggnads AB (Feba) from Nacka municipality as a result of a land allocation competition regarding detailed plans and design of new construction on the property. The house was built in the years 1984 to 1986 with first occupancy in September 1986. The largest tenant was Viking Line . The facility’s owner and construction contractor was Folke Ericsson byggnads AB (with Lennart Ericsson in charge), Can Arkitekter was responsible for the design and Arne Hill AB for the constructions. Ericsson occasionally had its own headquarters in the building.
The building consists of four connected volumes of different heights that step down towards the southeast. The complex is shaped in a gentle curve like a “C” around a courtyard with terraces, plantings, statues, a fountain and balconies. The frame consists of load-bearing columns and steel beams with cast-in-place concrete beams cast with a permanent form of sheet metal cassettes which also form reinforcement. The facades are clad with grey-white sheet cassettes. The rentable area is approx. 15,000 m².
The parking garage
Opposite DanvikCenter with address Kvarnholmsvägen 12, the owner Feba had an undeveloped lot that was used for short-term parking. It was feared that the parking spaces for the office building’s tenants would not be enough and therefore planned the construction of a parking garage in three levels for a total of 300 cars. A new detailed plan for the site won legal force in December 1988 and the following year the building was erected according to drawings by Can Arkitekter, who were also responsible for the design of DanviCenter a few years earlier. [ 1 ]
The parking garage with its crude concrete structure was not a popular building and was eventually voted as Nacka’s ugliest house. [ 2 ] In 2019, Ikano Bostad commissioned the Chilean street artist Nelson Cekis to paint a mural on the parking garage that is now owned by Ikano. Ceki’s artwork became one of 17 murals that were performed in 2019 by various street artists in Nacka municipality in connection with the Wall Street mural painting festival .
Hägerstensbrinken townhouse area
The city plan , signed by Göran Sidenbladh , was drawn up in 1963 and prescribed development with single-family townhouses. The townhouse area includes three blocks, Joakim , Babylon and Fader Hök , which are located directly north and west of Hägersten’s farm . Fader Hök was a tavern at nearby Klubbensborg whose building still stands.
The land, which was previously owned by Olsson & Rosenlunds AB , is located high above Hägersten’s marina and gives the houses an expansive view of Mälaren and Klubbfjärden . The contractor and client was Folke Ericsson byggnads AB , which hired the architectural group FFNS, where architect Carl Erik Fogelvik was responsible for the project. FFNS was also responsible for the garden design through garden architect Paul Öreby. The designer was the engineering firm Nils Carlsson and Einar Mattsson’s construction department.
The land is strongly hilly so that the townhouses, located where the terrain is steepest, had three floors facing Lake Mälaren and only one floor facing the street. The houses have frames of standing lightweight concrete elements that were plastered with alcohol on the facades. The roofs were made as brick-covered gable roofs with hipped beginnings and ends. Unusual for the time was that the townhouses in the Joakim and Babylon blocks had their own garage next to the apartment. In the Fader Hök block, a length of garage was instead placed against the north gable.
The area is bounded in the north by Hägerstens avenue and the neighborhood Pharaos Bagare (according to the city plan Paraos Bägare ). [ 2 ] Here are another 22 terraced houses from the same period and with a similar appearance to those at Hägerstensbrinken. They too were designed by FFNS (architect Harry Åberg) and built by John Mattson . They are yellow-classified by the City Museum and constitute “a positive significance for the cityscape” and represent “certain cultural and historical value
Life and work
The brothers Einar and John Mattsson (John later removed an “s” in the surname and spelled the name as Mattson ) grew up in a farm home on Väddö in northern Roslagen. The brothers both worked as builders in Stockholm during their adult lives. At the age of 15, John started working in shipping. However, he soon became interested in construction, initially as a construction worker at Skånska Cementgjuteriet .
In 1941, he graduated from the Technical School as a civil engineer and in 1945, the brothers John and Einar founded a construction company which shortly afterwards was completely taken over by John and named John Mattson Byggnads AB, while the brother formed Einar Mattsson Byggnads AB . The company’s first building was completed in 1945 and was a residential building with 18 apartments in the Stockholm suburb of Hägersten .
The company grew and began to build housing in mass production in several of Stockholm’s suburban municipalities. The customers also included HSB . In connection with the million program, John Mattson Byggnads AB became one of the largest construction companies in Sweden in the mid-1960s. Other well-known buildings built by John Mattson Byggnads AB include the 3rd and 4th high-rise buildings of the Hötorgskraporna in Stockholm City, Kolmården’s zoo and Wenner-Gren Center as well as Ella gård’s terraced house area (1955-1970).
In 1965, John Mattson sold his company to the investment company Industrivärden . He quit as CEO but remained chairman of the board until 1979. In 1970, he owned real estate worth around 50 million. In 1984, property ownership had been transferred to the management company John Mattson Fastighets AB and the value of the properties amounted to approximately SEK 700 million. John Mattson Byggnads AB is today called JM AB and is one of Sweden’s largest construction companies with a focus on housing. The company is also a large property owner, both in terms of residential and commercial properties.
Viking Line
Viking Line Abp is an Åland shipping group with traffic on the Baltic Sea . Viking Line’s head office is in Mariehamn . The Swedish office is in Danvik Center , which is located in Danviken in Nacka . In Stockholm the ferries depart from Stadsgårdshamnen , in Helsinki from Skatudden and in Tallinn from Reisisadam .
In 2006–2007, Viking Line carried approximately 5.7 million passengers and 91,300 freight units. In the same financial year, turnover amounted to EUR 436 million and the number of employees approximately 2,900. The market shares on the Turku – Stockholm route were 52.1 percent, Helsinki – Stockholm 46.6 percent and Helsinki – Tallinn 19.1 percent.
Viking Line’s history began in 1959 when Rederi Ab Vikinglinjen, a subsidiary of the Åland-based Rederi Ab Sally, began traffic between Sweden and Finland ( Gräddö – Mariehamn – Galtby , Korpo ) with the car ferry S/S Viking , a steamship that previously went by the name S/S Dinard and had been bought in Great Britain . At the same time, the Gotland shipping company Rederi AB Slite had started traffic between Sweden and Åland. A couple of years later, another competitor was added, Rederi Ab Ålandsfärjan , which was formed by a breakaway group from Rederi Ab Vikinglinjen. The three shipping companies realized that competition would be devastating for all parties and in 1966 they formed the joint marketing company Viking Line. In connection with this, Rederi Ab Vikinglinjen changed its name to Rederi Ab Solstad, while the ships of all three shipping companies were painted red.
Rederi Ab Åland Ferry changed its name to SF Line in 1970 and Rederi Ab Solstad merged with the parent company Rederi Ab Sally in 1977. After Rederi Ab Sally was bought by the owner companies of Silja Line in 1987, that shipping company was excluded from Viking Line. In 1993, Rederi AB Slite went bankrupt due to a liquidity crisis in connection with their newly built M/S Europa , leaving SF Line as the sole owner of Viking Line. In 1995, SF Line changed its name to Viking Line and since the same year has been listed on the stock exchange in Helsinki. The full company name is Viking Line Abp.
