Harnösand
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State : | Sweden | |||
Province (län): | Västernorrlands Lan | |||
Historical Province (landskap): | Ångermanland | |||
Municipality : | Harnösand | |||
Coordinates : | 62 ° 38 ′ N , 17 ° 57 ′ E | |||
SCB code : | 7500 | |||
Status: | Crime scene | |||
Residents : | 18,426 (December 31, 2015) | |||
Area : | 11.21 km² | |||
Population density : | 1644 inhabitants / km² | |||
Postal code : | 871 01 - 871 93 | |||
List of perpetrators in Västernorrland County |
Härnösand has been the seat of the Swedish province of Västernorrlands län and the capital of the municipality of Härnösand since 1778 . The town is located on the island of Härnön at the mouth of the Ångermanälven river .
Härnösand is also the bishopric of the diocese of Härnösand in the ( Lutheran ) Swedish Church and one of the locations of the Mittuniversitetet .
history
Härnösand was in 1585 by Johann III. founded and developed into one of the largest cities in Norrland in the following decades. In 1647 Härnösand became a bishopric and three years later a grammar school was founded. The citizens of Härnösand came into conflict with the Gävle fishermen several times during the 17th century .
During the Great Northern War at the beginning of the 18th century, Härnösand was badly affected. In 1721 the city was burned down by Russian troops. However, the city recovered quickly and in 1778 became the capital of the province of Västernorrland. Around 1800 Härnösand had around 1,800 inhabitants.
In the 19th century, Härnösand was Norrland's second largest city and an important commercial and administrative center. The city was only weakly affected by industrialization and remained a service center. This led to weaker growth in the 20th century than in comparable cities.
Attractions
The oldest buildings with small wooden houses are in the districts of Norrstaden and Östanbäcken. Of the buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries, the cathedral , the residence and the former grammar school (today the town hall) in the classical style should be mentioned.
The open-air museum Murberget Länsmuseet Västernorrland with old buildings from Härnösand and farms from the region is the second largest in Sweden after Skansen .
sons and daughters of the town
- Johannes Steuchius (1676–1742), Lutheran theologian and Archbishop of Uppsala
- Elias Sehlstedt (1808–1874), poet
- Fredrika Limnell (1816-1892), philanthropist and suffragette
- Harald Asplund (1831–1904), engineer
- Albert Atterberg (1846–1916), chemist and soil mechanic
- Frans Kempe (1847-1924), industrialist
- Alfhild Agrell (1849–1923), writer
- Henning Mankell (1868–1930), composer
- Ernst G. Wahlgren (1879–1938), Romance studies
- Bertil Malmberg (1889–1958), poet
- Jean Börlin (1893–1930), ballet dancer and choreographer
- Nils Bohlin (1920–2002), engineer, inventor of the three-point seat belt
- Sven Pettersson (1927-2017), ski jumper
- Bengt Nyholm (1930-2015), football player
- Hans Nordin (* 1931), ski jumper and ski jumping official
- Bengt Nilsson (1934–2018), high jumper
- Sven Hamrin (1941–2018), racing cyclist
- Bo Holmberg (1942-2010), politician
- Kjell Isaksson (* 1948), pole vaulter
- Lennart Norberg (* 1949), ice hockey player
- Annika Billström (* 1956), politician, mayor of Stockholm (2002-06)
- Eva Nordung Byström (* 1957), Lutheran bishop
- Lars Zetterlund (* 1964), soccer player
- Anette Norberg (* 1966), curler
- Peter Narup (* 1969), curler
- Tomas Nordin (* 1969), curler
- Cathrine Lindahl (* 1970), curler
- Magnus Swartling (* 1970), curler
- Ulla-Karin Rönnlund (* 1977), soccer player
- Per Nilsson (* 1982), football player
- Jörgen Sundqvist (* 1982), ice hockey player
- Daniel Theorin (* 1983), soccer player
- Henrik Leek (* 1990), curler
- Anton Forsberg (* 1992), ice hockey goalkeeper
- Joakim Nilsson (* 1994), football player