Saltsjobaden is a residencial area of Nacka Municipality, south-east of Stockholm, Sweden located on the coast of the Baltic Sea. Saltsjobaden (literally "the Salt Sea baths") was developed as a resort by Knut Agathon Wallenberg, a member of the wealthy and influential Wallenberg family, from farmland which he bought in 1891 through a newly created railway company. Saltsjobaden was an independent municipality 1909-1970. In 1971 it was re-integrated into Nacka Municipality. The local railway (Saltsjobanan), built by Wallenberg and completed in 1893, connected Saltsjöbaden with Stockholm, with its terminus at Slussen. The railway was taken over by Storstockholms Lokaltrafik in the late 1960-ies and integrated in the Stockholm public transport system. 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 Saltsjobaden. The asteroid 36614 Saltis, discovered there in 2000, was named after a common nickname of the place. In the world of chess, Saltsjobaden is famous for the 1948 Interzonal tournament won by David Bronstein of the USSR.

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