Arbrå

Arbrå
Arbrå
State :	Sweden
Province  (län):	Gävleborg County
Historical Province (landskap):	Hälsingland
Municipality  :	Bollnas
Coordinates :	61 ° 28 '  N , 16 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 61 ° 28 '  N , 16 ° 23'  E
SCB code :	7004
Status:	Crime scene
Residents :	1961 (December 31, 2015)
Area :	2.91 km²
Population density :	674 inhabitants / km²
List of perpetrators in Gävleborg County

Arbrå is a place ( Tatort ) in the Swedish province of Gävleborgs län , in the historic province (landskap) Hälsingland .

location

Arbrå belongs to the municipality of Bollnäs and within this since January 1, 2016 to the district of Arbrå. With almost 2000 inhabitants, the place is the second largest village in the municipality. It is located about 100 km as the crow flies north-northwest of the provincial capital Gävle and 13 km north of Bollnäs on the right bank of the Ljusnan River . Below (south) of the village the Ljusnan flows through the lake Flästasjön; on the eastern edge of the village, the river and the lake Kyrksjön to the north are regulated by a dam with the Norränge hydropower station built in the 1960s .

Arbrå has a station at kilometer 113 of 1881 opened continuously, originally there as a trunk line through the Nordland (Stambanan genome Norrland) designated Northern trunk line (northern main line) of Gävle according Ånge . To the west, the place is bypassed by Riksväg 83 , which comes from the European route 4 at Tönnebro south of Söderhamn via Bollnäs, following the river and the railway line also to Ånge.

About 5 km to the north, near the town of Vallsta , is the small Arbrå airfield ( Arbrå flygfalt, ICAO code ESUB ), which is not used for regular air traffic, but only by local aviation clubs.

history

Since the Middle Ages, Arbrå had a certain importance as the seat of a parish ( socken ) , from which the rural community of the same name (Arbrå landskommun) emerged in 1863 . With the construction of the railway line in the 1880s and a little later the construction of the first hydroelectric power station that used the energy of the rapids in the area, various industrial companies settled, including the Arbrå Verkstad machine factory (later a subsidiary of Allis-Chalmers and Trelleborg AB , now part of Sandvik AB ), a factory for safes (Arbrå Kassaskåpsfabrik) and the textile factory Forsbro textil. The rural municipality was converted into a municipality (kommun) with the municipal reform of 1971 , but it was already part of the municipality of Bollnäs on January 1, 1974. The largest employer today is the customer service department of the energy supplier Fortum .

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  Arbrå Church with a stack of bells

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  Åsparken residential area in Arbrå

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  Norrange hydroelectric power station near Arbrå

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  Coat of arms of the municipality of Arbrå (until 1973)

Attractions

The church of Arbrå (Arbrå kyrka) was built around the turn of the 16th century and gained its present form through additions in 1753/1754. The free-standing bell stack from 1637 was last rebuilt in 1821.

Personalities

• Folke Alnevik (* 1919 in Arbrå), athlete
• Sven-Olof Bergvall (* 1943 in Arbrå), skier
• Peter Stormare (* 1953), actor, grew up in Arbrå
• Anna-Clara Tidholm (* 1946), children's book author and illustrator, lives near Arbrå

Web links

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

• Private website about Arbrå (Swedish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Statistiska centralbyrån : Land area per Tatort, folkmängd and invånare per square kilometer. Vart femte år 1960 - 2015 (database query)
2. ↑ Arbrå flygklubb website (Swedish)