Karlstad

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Karlstad
Karlstad coat of arms
Sweden Värmland location map.svg
Karlstad
Karlstad
Localization of Värmland in Sweden
State : Sweden
Province  (län): Värmland County
Historical Province (landskap): Varmland
Municipality  : Karlstad
Coordinates : 59 ° 23 '  N , 13 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 59 ° 23 '  N , 13 ° 30'  E
SCB code : 5704
Status: Crime scene
Residents : 61,492 (December 31, 2015)
Area : 29.01 km²
Population density : 2120 inhabitants / km²
Telephone code : 054
Postal code : 650 02 - 656 39
List of perpetrators in Värmland County
Aerial view of Karlstad

Karlstad [ ˈkɑːɭstɑː (d) ] is a Swedish city in the historical province of Värmland and the seat of the present-day province of Värmland County . The city with 61,492 inhabitants (2015) is the capital of the Karlstad municipality and seat of the Karlstad diocese of the Church of Sweden and has been a university town since 1999. Karlstad is Sweden's seventeenth largest city .

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«Sola i Karlstad» (sun of Karlstad), a always cheerful waitress who is said to have given the city its sunny reputation

Värmland is known as a poets' landscape, and Karlstad was home to several artists. One of the most appreciated is Gustav Fröding . Karlstad's symbol is a happy sun, known from the Sola i Karlstad . According to legend, she was a constantly cheerful waitress in her urban outdoor inn, which gave the city a sunny reputation. A statue has stood in her honor in front of the city hotel since 1984.

geography

Karlstad is located in southern Värmland, on the northern bank of the Vänern and lies in the wide estuary of the Klarälven . The city is the seat of the municipality of Karlstad. The municipality is bounded by the municipalities of Filipstad, Forshagas, Grums, Hagfors, Hammarö, Kil, Kristinehamn and Storfors and by a sea border with the municipality of Säffle . According to the Swedish Statistical Bureau, the built-up area covered 3001 hectares in 2010, which results in a population density of 2035 inhabitants per square kilometer. Two other towns ( tatort ) within the municipality are Alster and Skåre, smaller towns ( småort ) are Dingelsundet, Edsgatan, Höja, Björby och Gräsås and Steffensminne. These surrounding places are within one kilometer of the urban development boundary. A little further out (two to three kilometers) are the towns of Skattkärr and Skoghall as well as Vidöåsen in Hammarö municipality. Karlstad and the four surrounding communities Forshaga, Grums, Hammarö and Wedge form the Karlstad region with a population of 133,207 people (2012).

The largest watercourse in the city is the Klarälven , which flows with its eight branches into Karlstad and its surroundings. In addition to the Klarälven, the Alster also flows east of the city. In addition to Vänern, there are several larger lakes: Kroppkärrssjön, Sundstatjärn and Örsholmstjärn.

climate

Karlstad is located in the area of ​​humid continental climates ( Köppen : Dfb ).

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Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 1.5 2.7 4.3 6.0 7.9 9.5 8.5 7.3 5.1 3.0 1.9 1.4 O 4.9
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history

Prehistory and "Tingvalla"

Map of Karlstad as well as the cathedral and the town hall (from the Nordic family book )

Not very much is known about the prehistory of the Karlstad area. The main reason for this is that large parts of the landscape were covered with water until the turn of the century . On the basis of macrofossil studies, it is assumed that the landscape, the center of which is Karlstad, was settled towards the end of the Scandinavian Iron Age , in the year 1000. However, there is a lack of physical remains for this period. Only indirectly, through demonstrable massive logging for the use of the delta area as pasture, can one infer human use.

On the other hand, remains and finds from Tingvalla have been preserved from the early Middle Ages ( Vikingatids , that is the Viking Age ) . Tingvalla was Karlstad's predecessor settlement and existed as the eponymous place between 1290 and 1584, until Karlstad was founded by King Karl IX. was founded as a city with town charter and the settlement got its current name. During the Middle Ages, Tingvalla was an important trading center, as evidenced by more than thirty documents from the period between 1347 and 1520.

According to place name research, "Ting" means Tingplatz, while "vall" stands for a smooth, grassy square. The name of the place probably comes from the end of the Iron Age. Tingvalla also includes “Lagberget” ( lagberg = mountain of the law). This name appears in several books, for the first time in 1411.

From other sources it is known that several "Tingvallas" existed in Sweden and abroad. What most of them had in common was that there were also churches and markets near the square. The first church for Karlstad is mentioned in 1347. At this point, King Magnus Eriksson came and held the ting and a gun show. Due to its location on Vänern and the Klarälven, the island of Tingvalla (Tingvallaön) could be reached quite easily. The documented development on the island consisted of only a few courtyards.

Legend has it that the Norwegian King Olaf Haraldsson returned to the Trondelag area after his return from Novgorod via the Värmland and north along the Klarälvental. After his death and burial, he was venerated as a saint. Many pilgrims took Tingvalla as a starting point for their trip to Trondheim .

The economy of the Swedish kingdom in the 16th century was narrow, difficult to control and dispersed. It was therefore difficult to tax them. Compared to the rest of Europe, Sweden had only a few cities, which were also of little importance. So that the royal family could intervene more strongly in the regions, among other things to control trade and taxes, several cities were founded in Sweden between 1582 and 1680, beginning with the Vasa dynasty. This also includes the founding of Karlstad.

Founded in 1584

At the beginning of the 1580s, Duke Karl (later King Charles IX ) decided that Värmland's first city should be laid out on the island of Tingvalla. In 1582 he asked the inhabitants of his duchy to att byggia en kiöpstadt wedt Tingvalla ("to build a trading town near Tingvalla"). In the same year the name Karlstad appeared for the first time in the ducal accounts. After a few visits and trade decrees in the period that followed, he signed the letter of privilege for the new city on November 5, 1584. In addition, the Duke declared that future changes in privileges should only be made to improve the population. The first census of the city of Karlstad from 1585 recorded 45 households with the names of their owners. Every spring, the city was flooded regularly.

17th and 18th centuries

Karlstad in the 17th century, engraving from Suecia antiqua et hodierna

Due to the armed conflict with Denmark in the 1640s, the War College in Stockholm planned to turn Karlstad into a fortified city. However, these plans were not implemented. In the city, several houses were demolished or relocated, streets were added, straightened or disappeared completely due to a municipal regulation ordinance. Structural changes also took place in the course of the 18th century, especially the fires of 1716, 1719 and 1752 led to extensions and redesigns. In 1716 36 farms burned down. The fire in 1719 hit the city harder. The church, the town hall, the high school, the iron scales and 170 courtyards were victims of the flames. On the night of June 22nd, 1752, during a dry and warm summer, another fire spread from the brewery and quickly spread across the entire city. This time too, the town hall and grammar school burned down, but the church remained almost unscathed. Only about 20 buildings, mostly small houses in the southern part of the city, were spared.

After the fire in 1752, the architect Carl Hårlemalen was commissioned to design a new city map. He did not change the buildings fundamentally. The town hall and grammar school were now built from stone in a modern and befitting manner. The population mostly decided against stone buildings and rebuilt their houses from wood, but these are now often larger than before and with two storeys. In order to give a proper impression, it was arranged that the houses should be painted red. The new, brick-built town hall was built in 1754 and was not completed until 1783.

Since 1634 Närke and Värmland formed a Län with Örebro as the royal seat. During the 18th century, the warm country plants flourished, which meant an upswing in the region. The governor of Örebro declared in 1779 that he could no longer fulfill his duties in both regions of Närke and Värmland. The government decided in the same year that Värmland, with the exception of the mining in Karlskoga, should be separated from Närke and should form a separate Län with Karlstad as the place of residence.

After 1865

Karlstad in the 1860s

The city fire, which broke out in a bakery on Sunday morning, July 2, 1865, hit almost every neighborhood one after the other and destroyed almost every building in the city. The city was systematically rebuilt after the fire in 1865. In 1905 the Karlstad Treaty was signed in Karlstad , which dissolved the union of Sweden and Norway.

District of Haga

The area east of the canal is called Haga . Today it is a central part of Karlstad, but until the early 19th century Haga was included in the surrounding area. Small industries, craft businesses and smaller residential buildings grew here. At Hagatorget (Haga Square) the first large stone house was built during the 20th century, called Centralpalatset . The Beckasinen pharmacy and Österbergs Eisenhandel (järnhandel) used to be located here. On the Hagatorget there is a statue of the manufacturer Gustav Adolf Andersson, who lived here. This man laid the foundation stone for Karlstads Mekaniska Verkstad (KMV - Karlstads Mechanische Werkstatt), which was of great importance for urban development.

population

On December 31, 2011, the municipality of Karlstad had 86,409 inhabitants, the urban area had a population of 62,202. The average age is 41.2 years. With a land area of ​​1151 km², around 75 people live on one square kilometer. The proportion of the population with a migration background (born outside of Germany or both parents are migrants) is 12.9%, i.e. 11,142 people. The ten largest groups of foreign-born residents in 2011 come from Iraq (1,293), Norway (840), Finland (622), Iran (591), Bosnia-Herzegovina (410), Yugoslavia (357), Turkey ( 303), Germany (299), Poland (281) and Thailand (230). The population development has been positive since the early 1980s. Between 2003 and 2011 there was always a surplus of births within Karlstad.

education

The educational level of 20 to 64 year olds in 2011 was slightly above the national average. 9.8% of the population had a pre-high school diploma, a high school diploma 45.2% and a post-high school diploma 43.9%, with women clearly more likely to complete higher education.

For children between the ages of one year and the start of school, the city offers the care facilities förskola (preschool) or fritidshem in each district . In addition to the communal institutions, some independent institutions also take care of the care. In addition, there are other educational care provisions through the Familjedaghem (family day- care center ) and the Flerfamiljssystem (multi-family care ).

The municipality and some independent organizations currently (2012) maintain 32 primary schools for schoolchildren between the ages of six and sixteen. Not all schools cover grades 1-9.

As a municipality, Karlstad has five grammar schools. The grammar schools in existence in 2012 are the Hammarögymnasiet (800 pupils), the Nobelgymnasiet (1100), the Sundstagymnasiet (1150 pupils), Tingvallagymnasiet (850 pupils) and the Älvkullegymnasiet (900 pupils). Independent high schools are: Folkuniversitetets gymnasium, John Bauergymnasiet, IT-gymnasiet, Karlstad Idrottsgymnasium (sports high school), Karlstads Praktiska high school, Klara high school, Lillerudsgymnasiet, Plusgymnasiet and the Thorén Business School.

Another educational institution is the Karlstads Teknikcenter , which primarily teaches and trains in the field of technology at high school and professional level.

University campus facing east

Karlstad University trains and conducts research in the fields of technology, social science, humanities, natural sciences, education and care. Research has become increasingly important and now accounts for a third of the turnover. It builds largely on collaboration with industry and the public sector. In 1999 the college in Karlstad got the status of a university and since March 26th 2009 it has also had the status of a commercial college. In 2011 around 1150 people were employed at the university and 12,602 students were enrolled.

Culture

theatre

Temple Riddaren Theater after renovation in 2008
"The spinning mill"
  • The Värmlands Opera House (Värmlandsoperan) is one of Sweden's six opera houses and was founded in 1975. There are currently 70 permanent employees, including ten singers and 35 orchestra members. Since 1994 the opera has been housed in the Spinnerei (spinneriet) , an old spinning mill in Karlstad. The small stage (Lilla Scenen) with 240 seats, all workshops and the administration are located in this building . The large stage (Stora Scenen) in Karlstad's theater has offered 397 seats since the renovation in 2011.

Värmlandsoperan is widely known for its successful productions in the fields of opera, operettas and musicals. The performances take place on the stages as well as on tours. The Opera Orchestra (Värmland Sinfonietta) also organizes concerts with important soloists and conductors.

  • The Scalateatern mainly has shows, music performances and theater in its repertoire.
  • Värmlandsteatern is an organization that performs, produces and presents plays in various locations. One of these stages is the Tempelriddaren (The Knight Templar) theater , which was once a house of the order of the same name and was refurbished after 2008.
  • The Karlstad Theater Association (Karlstads Teaterförening) is affiliated with the Reichstheater (Riksteatern) .

Library

  • Karlstad City Library (Karlstads stadsbibliotek)
  • Karlstad University Library (Karlstads universitetsbibliotek)

youth

  • UNO is a cultural center for young people aged 16 and over. The house offers a mixture of music, design, dance, cinema and café. The meeting point is in the center of Karlstad. The UN opened on February 10, 2005, after 25 years of political debate and several youth demonstrations in Karlstad. The name UNO is a combination of the Spanish term una for one and the old Swedish word una , which means to prosper . So there is a house for everyone to thrive in. The idea behind Uno is that young people get a place for their interests, for example in dance, music, design and other creative areas that they like.

Movie

  • Film i Värmland is a regional center for film that was founded in 1995. The head office is in Karlstad. Film i Värmland supports local film projects, offers itself as a regional meeting point, provides further training in the field of film and organizes film festivals. They are also trying to strengthen the regional film infrastructure. Between 1997 and 2010 they supported and co-produced 130 short and documentary films.
  • Värmlands Filmförbund is a film association. In the 1970s, several film amateurs began to set up a film workshop by buying technology together. They award the Filmörnen (Filmadler) award annually during the short film festival . The association is based in Gjuteriet in the Herrhagen district.

Cinemas

Filmstaden
  • Filmstaden is a normal cinema that shows various current films every day. The building is on Drottningsgatan.
  • Arenan is a small cinema that has its hall in the library building. The cinema shows in particular sophisticated and alternative films.
  • It is also possible to rent a small cinema (ten seats) in the UNO Kultur- und Jugendhaus and show your own film.

museum

  • The Alster Manor (Alsters herrgård) and the birthplace of Gustav Fröding (Gustaf Frödings minnesgård)
  • Värmland Museum (Värmland Museum)
  • Brigade Museum in Värmland (Brigadmuseum i Värmland) - planned opening at the end of 2012
  • Sandgrund Lars Lerin Art Museum (konstmuseum)

media

  • The newspaper group Nya Wermlands-Tidningen (NWT - Die neue Värmländische Zeitung) is one of Sweden's largest newspaper groups and has a circulation of 51,900 copies. The extensive profits of the group were invested in new technologies. Among other things, one of the most modern printing plants in Europe and the newspaper house are located in Karlstad. NWT is half owned by the publishers of the daily newspapers Helsingborgs Dagblad (HD) and Nordvästra Skånes Tidningar (NST) and the other half is owned by the second largest Norwegian newspaper, Bergens Tidende . The turnover of the NWT group is 521 Swedish kronor. There are currently around 446 employees in the entire group, 165 of them directly at NWT in Karlstad or in one of the local editorial offices.
  • Värmlands Folkblad (VF - Värmlands Volksblatt) is owned by Värmlands Arbetarrörelse (Värmlands labor movement) and 300 private individuals. The activities of the VF Group consist of newspaper edition, magazines, contract printing and property management. The Läns-Zeitung Värmland Folkblad has a circulation of 17,800 copies. They have around 120 employees, including around ten people who work for the local editorial offices in Värmland.
  • Karlstads-Tidningen is published once a week on Thursday. The edition is just under 300 copies. Gustaf Fröding worked for this newspaper several times at the end of the 19th century.
  • Sveriges Television has a regional office in Karlstad that produces Värmlandsnytt (Värmlands news).
  • TV4Nyheterna Karlstad | TV4 Värmland , which broadcasts news from Värmland, is also based in Karlstad .
  • There are also a number of radio stations in the area. The transmitter P4 Värmland has its headquarters in Karlstad. Mix Megapol , Rix FM and the holistic local radio station 92.2 - Radio Solsta are located here.

economy

Landstinghuset in Karlstad

As the capital of the region and through the university, Karlstad is a civil service town (41% of employees work in the public sector). The city's location also makes it a popular congress city with a correspondingly large bed capacity. Since Karlstad is in the wood region of Sweden, a large wood processing industry has developed. There are not only sawmills and paper mills , but also mechanical engineering companies that supply them.

Due to its location on Lake Vänern, Karlstad has one of the largest inland ports in Sweden. The port, which belongs to the Vänerhamns company, is the largest facility with a very high capacity. Above all, oil, wood, paper and project cargoes from regional industrial companies are reloaded here. Karlstad offers 74,000 m² of port storage, two sidings, two fixed and two mobile cranes with a heavy lift crane for 200 tons, three kilometers of track, various road vehicles and ice-breaking tugs.

Unemployment is low and has been falling since the economic depression in the 1990s. In Karlstad it is currently (2011) 3.6% (youth between 18 and 24 years 3.4%). Another 3.4% (youth 5.9%) are in programs and receive support. This means that Karlstad is slightly above the values ​​compared to the Swedish average.

The average annual income of SEK 253,300 in 2011 is slightly below the national average. However, there are clear differences between men and women, in Karlstad men earn SEK 280,100, while women earn only SEK 233,300 a year.

Companies

The following section lists a selection of employers in Karlstad. The companies are classified according to their business activity.

Construction and building

  • Bravida has around 120 employees in Karlstad and is one of Scandinavia's largest installation and service companies. They have around 200 departments in Norway, Sweden and Denmark with around 8,300 employees.
  • NCC Construction Sverige develops and builds house and infrastructure projects, including paths, bridges, tunnels, power plants, sports and cultural halls, industrial buildings and schools. Around 65 employees and 190 skilled workers work in Karlstad.
  • Peab with around 140 craftsmen and 50 employees all over Värmland
  • Skanska

Trade and industry

Löfberg's Lila Röstereihochhaus at the Inner Harbor
  • A large employer is the parent company AB Anders Löfberg , in which the subsidiary Löfbergs Lila AB , a coffee roasting company , is the dominant part. The company was founded by three brothers in 1906 and developed into a major Swedish coffee roastery. The roastery produces in the city center, directly on Inre Hamn . The fourth generation of the family business employs around 200 people worldwide, 95 of whom work in Karlstad.
  • Outokumpu Stainless
  • Consumption Värmland
  • Helmia is a Värmland car trading company, which includes Helmia Bil AB, Helmia Lastbilar AB, Toria AB, Helmia Motorsport AB and Helmia Fastigheter AB. The company was founded and continues to run by the Walfridson family.
  • Lecab is a group of companies with around 120 employees.

IT

  • TeliaSonera has a network operations center in Karlstad and employs around 340 people.
  • Tieto develops signaling technology with around 500 employees in Karlstad, with Ericsson and Nokia being business customers.
  • Logica
  • Sogeti

Bulk products and paper

  • Metso Fiber in Karlstad is one of the world's leading suppliers of complete production lines for mass products and paper making. The shop has around 1,000 employees in Karlstad, making it the largest private employer in Karlstad municipality.
  • Metso Paper Karlstad AB - The shop with around 500 employees in Karlstad manufactures soft paper machines and maintains part of the Group's development work here.
  • Skoghalls Bruk is part of the Stora Enso group and manufactures cardboard packaging. About 130 people are employed in Karlstad.

employer

The twenty largest employers in Karlstad municipality (2010) are listed in the table below.

employer Employees
Karlstad Municipality 7000
Landsting i Värmland 5100
Karlstad University 1090
Konsum Värmland ekonomisk förening 900
Metsokoncernen 660
Myndigheten för Samhällskydd och Beredskap, MSB 560
Tieto AB 420
Item AB 400
Polisen 360
Frösunda LSS AB 320
Nobina Sverige AB 300
Sveriges bostadsfinansierings aktiebolag, SBAB 280
TeliaSonera AB 240
Carema äldreomsorg AB 230
Länsstyrelsen in Värmland (government of the Län) 220
Samhall AB 220
Skatteverket (tax authority) 200
IKEA 190
Nya Wermlandstidningen, NWT (newspaper) 190
Karlstads kyrkliga samfallighet (Karlstad parish) 180

traffic

Road network

The area around Karlstad is a very important junction for the Värmland road network. The E18 runs through Karlstad as a city motorway, which was inaugurated in 1967 and continues east to Skattskärr, as an expressway opened in 2008. For the next few years, a new expressway is also planned to the west between Bergvik and Björkås.

The imperial roads (riksvägar) 61 , 62 and 63 and the primary provincial road (länsväg) 236 begin in Karlstad. Reichsstrasse 61 and 62 have been expanded to four lanes within the municipality of Karlstad.

Characteristic orange buses in Karlstadt's regular service. Here you can see two buses at the central exchange point, the Stora Torget . Behind it you can see the Karlstad town hall with rooms for the district court of Warmia and the court of appeal for western Sweden.

bus

Karlstadsbuss was founded in 1996 and forms a separate department within the urban planning administration of the municipality of Karlstad, which is responsible for city traffic in Karlstad. Karlstadsbuss currently operates around 58 buses, all of which are handicapped accessible. Karlstadsbuss connects the districts with the city center. All city buses of the main lines run via the Großer Platz (Stora Torget), while the regional buses (Värmlandstrafik) and national buses (Swebus and GoByBus) depart from the bus station (bus stations).

The current inner-city network consists of eight bus lines, three central lines and a number of special lines (e.g. for ice hockey games). The Karlstadsbuss network is one of the best in Sweden since all lines were relocated in autumn 2007. According to a 2011 study by the Swedish Public Transport Association (Svenska Lokaltrafikföreningen) , Karlstadsbuss has the largest influx of travelers and also the most satisfied travelers among the city bus networks in Sweden. Since January 16, 2012 there are three new articulated buses in traffic.

Since 2012, passengers have had the option of buying a digital ticket directly on the bus using a travel chip card (Resekort) . The Resekort doubles as a ticket (tour, day or 14/30 day ticket) and a prepaid card loaded with money. The prices vary according to the age of the passenger (schoolchildren, youth / student or adult). Payment via the Karlstadbuss app, Turkronor (bus ticket currency) or via the Internet is also possible. A classic bus ticket is significantly more expensive and can only be obtained from some machines or from the bus driver. The SMS ticket was abolished in early 2015.

Main bus routes

line route
1 Campus - Universitetet - Centrum - Våxnäs - Bergvik köpcenter - IKEA
2 Välsviken / Mjölnartorpet - Universitetet - Kronoparken Centrum - Norrstrand - Centrum - Råtorp - Skåre - Ilanda
3 Universitetet / Stockfallet - Lorensberg - Ruds Centrum - Centrum - Centralsjukhuset - Jakobsberg / Sommaro
4th Norra Kroppkärr - Rud - Norrstrand - Centrum - Våxnäs - Gruvlyckan - Bergvik Köpcenter
5 Henstad - Våxnäs - Center
6th Jägartorpet - Färjestad - Norrstrand - Centrum - Kasernhöjden - Våxnäs C - Gruvlyckan
7th Orrholmen - Centrum - Beach - Romstad - Bellevue - Zakrisdal
8th Stodene - Skåre - Råtorp - Centrum - Haga - Herrhagen - Lamberget - Sjöstad

Regional bus routes

The regional bus traffic is served by Värmlandstrafik . Karlstad acts here with the bus station as a hub for an extensive network in Värmland. The buses can be recognized by their yellow-green paintwork.

Other routes are offered by Swebus Express with national connections to Oslo , Gothenburg and Stockholm . In 2012, the GoByBus bus operator (formerly known as “Säfflebussen”) did not stop in Karlstad.

train

Karlstad train station

SJ trains to Stockholm , Gothenburg and Oslo run from Karlstad Central Station ( Karlstad Centralstation ) . Regional trains are offered by Värmlandstrafik and run from Karlstad to Arvika - Charlottenberg -Oslo, Säffle - Åmål , Sunne - Torsby , Kristinehamn and Ställdalen - Ludvika (via Kristinehamn). Freight traffic is just as extensive.

plane

Karlstad Airport (Karlstad flygplats) regularly serves Stockholm as well as some charter routes with different destinations. The airfield is located around twelve kilometers northwest of the city, near Hynboholm.

boat

A special feature during the summer months (June to August) are the boat buses that have been in use since summer 2008. Among other things, they operate via the inner-city canal, the branches of the Klarälven or to the nearby island of Hammarö. The boat buses are a regular part of the local bus network and are integrated into it. Passengers can use the same ticket as for the bus. Vänertrafik also offers some tours on Vänern. The starting point is the Inner Harbor (Inre Hamn) .

Attractions

Stora Torget

Town hall in Karlstad at Stora Torget with central statue
Wermlandsbanken and Masonic Lodge

The Great Square (Stora Torget) is located in the center of Karlstad and is one of the largest in Sweden. It was laid out after the great fire of 1865 when a large part of the city burned down. The purpose was to stop and prevent future fires.

In the square stands the Freedom Monument by the sculptor Ivar Johnsson . The statue, erected in 1955, depicts a woman holding up a broken sword. It commemorates the peaceful dissolution of the Swedish-Norwegian Union in 1905.

The Freden ('Peace') restaurant is located in the house where the union between Sweden and Norway was peacefully dissolved in 1905 . Since January 2, 1996, all city buses have been running across the Great Square again.

The Residenzplatz

Residenstorget in the 1930s

The Residenzplatz is a square with a long history that was of great importance to Karlstad. The city harbor and trading center used to be here. Upstream stood the iron scales on which the iron from the warm region was weighed and taxed. For several centuries, the weighing fees have been the city's primary source of income. At the turn of the century in 1900, the Residenzplatz was covered with cobblestones. In 1916 a plantation was created with a fountain, terraces and stone balustrade. Ten years later the fountain was replaced by the new Karl IX monument. The square has had several names over the years, such as Hafenplatz, Salzplatz, Elfplatz and Topfplatz.

The great residence was built in 1871 and is the residence of the governor. The western main facade is a magnificent eye-catcher. The building was originally built two stories high, but received a third between 1921 and 1931. Above the entrance is a so-called ducal crown, made in Karlstad's mechanical workshop.

Karlstad Cathedral from the south

Cathedral church

Karlstad is the seat of a bishopric, the Karlstad Cathedral in the center dates from the 18th century. The cathedral church (1730) on Kungsgata was almost the only building spared from the last great fire (1865).

Östra Bron and Klarälven

Östra Bron

The stone bridge Östra Bron is the longest of its kind in Sweden. It was built between 1761 and 1811.

In the eastern arm of the Klarälven there are a number of eleven so-called duckdalbs . The name Duckdalbe probably comes from the Dutch; either from the Spanish warlord Duc d 'Albe, who used the construction in 1584 to moor warships off the Dutch coast, or from the Dutch words for diving and stake . Duckdalben were used in fairways and harbors to secure overpasses, jetties and other structures. In the Klarälv, however, the Duckdalben were used for rafting. Poles were tied between the duckdalbs to keep loosely drifting logs in the middle of the river. Before the time of the tugs, the barges were likely tied to the Duckdalben while they waited to be towed through the Pram Canal . A duckdalbe is made up of three or five logs driven deep into the ground and held together with iron bolts or iron bands.

In the 1930s, the bars between the duck albums lost their function. The rafts were now being pulled by the so-called pleasure tugs and the Duckdalben gradually fell into disrepair. Today the Duckdalben are preserved by the city of Karlstad as a characteristic feature in the cityscape and as a reminder of the importance of the river as a transport route.

Sandy bottom Sudden

The north-facing headland on which the Klarälven divides is a popular park with beaches, terraces and meadows. The Värmland Museum , which is well worth a visit, is also located on this peninsula , where the history, culture and art of Värmland can be explored. The Lars Lerin Art Museum has also been located on the peninsula in the former Sandgrundsudden restaurant since 2012 .

The barge canal (Pråmkanalen)

A channel for transports

The canal was used for freight through the city for over 120 years. On this, products such as iron, coal, lime, wood, mass products and paper were transported to and from the factories along the Klarälven. The towing channel was built in the course of 1835–38 based on a drawing proposed by Nils Ericson. The canal was created during the great canal construction period in the 19th century, when water was still the binding link between localities. The tow channel became a transport corridor between the eastern branch of the Klarälven and the outer harbor on Vänern. Via the harbor there was a fast connection with Gothenburg via the Trollhätta Canal, inaugurated in 1800, and with the Baltic Sea via the Göta Canal, built in 1832.

Barges and other boats

The boats that served the canal were essentially flat-bottomed cargo boats, barges or steamers converted into tugs. The boats were called Neptun, Schwan (Svan), Seetaucher (Lommen), Nutzlich (Nyttig) and Klarastrom (Klarafors) and the tug boats Salmon (Laxen), Mölnbacka and Kraft. Small boats sometimes operated on the canal. Flat rowing boats (“ekor”), combined rowing and sailing boats (“snipor”) and other small watercraft (“farkostar”) were pulled along the canal beach.

Carlarnas Sluss

Carlarnas Sluss with a view of the Haga district

The Carlarnas Sluss lock was named after Duke Karl, later King Karl IX., The founder of Karlstad, as well as the then King Karl XIV Johan. The two seals are carved into the stone-clad walls of the lock. The lock system is located in the canal to get down to the level of the Vänern. A lock keeper was employed to control the lock system. Every day he had to measure the water level and report it to the harbor master. The lock gates were opened by hand and the number of locks varied. On some days you smuggled seven to eight times, on other days not a single time. The lock keeper's house (“skussvakterstugan”) stands abandoned on the edge of the western bank.

The oldest urban park

After the canal was built, double rows of trees were planted on the canal banks. The canal bank with its avenues, which is now the oldest city park, has always been a popular walk. The park was used particularly at the end of the 19th century when there was a fountain and bathing facility at the northern mouth of the canal. Iron-rich water was sold in bottles under the name "Karlstads Jernvatten".

Tyggårdsviken (Armory Bay)

The area southwest of the canal is called “Tyggårdsviken”. The name refers to an armory that was set up here as a supply of materials for the military, during the war of Charles XII. against Norway. Between 1840 and 1880 a military hospital and a state prison (länsfängelse) were built here. The buildings are still there and now function as a high school and hotel.

Surroundings

The family-friendly Mariebergsskogen offers a small amusement park and an open-air museum with many old buildings from the region.

The island of Hammarö in the south is very popular during the summer for hiking, walking, sailing and cycling close to nature .

An outstanding building is the birthplace of the Swedish poet Gustaf Fröding in Alster, three kilometers east of Karlstad and easily accessible via the E 18 .

Sports

The ice hockey stadium Löfbergs Lila-Arena

Karlstad holds its own nationally and internationally, especially in winter sports . The ice hockey team Färjestad BK and the bandy team BS BolticGöta and the women's team from Västerstrands AIK have won many national titles for the city in their respective sports. Färjestad plays its home games in the Löfbergs Lila Arena .

The soccer team Karlstad Bollklubb (KBK) plays in the third, "Carlstad United" (a union of many Karlstad soccer clubs) in the fourth Swedish league. Karlstad is also the main location of the Rally Sweden , which takes place annually in February and is currently the only run of the World Rally Championship on snow .

The 2012 European Curling Championship took place in Karlstad from December 7th to 15th, 2012 .

The high jump Olympic champion Stefan Holm lives in Karlstad.

The Carlstad Crusaders , a Swedish American football team , are based in Karlstad.

Town twinning

Sister cities are Karlstad

City partnerships of Karlstad on a map of Europe

Personalities

Born in Karlstad

People related to the city

literature

  • Lennart Utgren: Sköna Värmland . Formula Five, Stockholm 2006, ISBN 91-631-8247-5
  • Ove Moberg: Karlstads Historia. Fjärde Delen. Karlstad under fyra sekler. Collection of delerna I-III. Utveckling efter 1950 , Karlstad 1983, ISBN 91-970139-1-9
  • Martin Karlsson: Den Dolda Staden, Arkeologiska undersökningar i kvarteret Druvan, Karlstad , Karlstad 2006, ISBN 91-85224-65-0
  • Gunnar Lundkvist: Stadsdelsboken. Tatorts Karlstads 39 stadsdelar 2008 med tillägg av området Järpetan inom tatortsgränsen , Karlstad 2008, ISBN 91-85429-546

Web links

Commons : Karlstad  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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