Saltsjöbaden
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Saltsjöbaden is a small community south-east of Stockholm, Sweden located on the coast of the Baltic Sea and part of Nacka Municipality.
Saltsjöbaden (literally "the Salt Sea baths") was developed as a resort by Knut A. Wallenberg, a member of the wealthy and influential Wallenberg family, from farmland which he bought in 1891 through a newly created railway company. It became an independent municipality in 1908, and a church parish of the Church of Sweden in 1913. Judicially it was formerly part of Svartlösa Hundred. The municipality was later incorporated with that of Nacka.
The local railway (Saltsjöbanan), built by Wallenberg and completed in 1893, connected Saltsjöbaden with Stockholm, with its terminus at Slussen. Two luxurious hotels (1893) and a sanatorium were built, designed by architect Erik Josephson. The parish church, Uppenbarelsekyrkan (the "Church of the Epiphany"), was built 1910-1913 and designed by Ferdinand Boberg with decoration by Olle Hjortzberg and Carl Milles, among others. The remainder of the land bought by the railway company was subdivided into plots; with the railway facilitating communications with the city, Saltsjöbaden soon became a popular suburb for the upper and upper middle classes who purchased the plots and developed it with spacious private houses.
The Stockholm Observatory was 1931-2001 located in Saltsjöbaden (see Saltsjöbaden Observatory). The asteroid 36614 Saltis, discovered there in 2000, was named after a common nickname of the place.
The larger of the two hotels, Grand Hotel Saltsjöbaden, was the location of the negotiations between the Swedish Employers Association (now the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise) and the Swedish Trade Union Confederation, which led to the Saltsjöbaden agreement of 1938.
In the world of chess, Saltsjöbaden is famous for the 1952 Interzonal championship won by Alexander Kotov of the USSR.
