Bjästa

	Bjästa
	Bjästa
State :	Sweden
Province (län):	Västernorrlands Lan
Historical Province (landskap):	Ångermanland
Municipality :	Örnsköldsvik
Coordinates :	63 ° 12 ′ N , 18 ° 30 ′ E Coordinates: 63 ° 12 ′ N , 18 ° 30 ′ E
SCB code :	7424
Status:	Crime scene
Residents :	1845 (December 31, 2015)
Area :	2.4 km²
Population density :	769 inhabitants / km²
	List of perpetrators in Västernorrland County

Bjästa is a place ( Tatort ) in the Swedish province of Västernorrlands län , in the historical province (landskap) Ångermanland .

location

The Nätra Church in Bjästa

Bjästa belongs to the municipality of Örnsköldsvik and within this since January 1, 2016 to the district of Nätra, named after the original name of the parish of Nätra . With over 1800 inhabitants, the place is the second largest village in the municipality. It is located about 70 km as the crow flies north-northeast of the provincial capital Härnösand and 15 km southwest of Örnsköldsvik , north of the Skuleskogen National Park on the Nätraån River . After flowing through Lake Åfjärden, this flows into the Nätrafjärden bay of the Bottensee about 5 km south-east . Another lake, Svedjefjärden, lies south of Bjästa.

Europastraße 4 ( Europaväg 4 ) runs immediately to the west of the town . In the direction of the coast, the secondary provincial road Y 908 leads to nearby Köpmanholmen , in a westerly direction the road continues up the Nätraån to Riksväg 90 north of Sollefteå .

Not far west of Bjästa is the route of the Botniabahn (Botniabanan), which opened in 2010 and crosses the Nätraån valley with a one-kilometer-long bridge, but has no passenger station at the village; the nearest train station is therefore in Örnsköldsvik.

history

The place goes back to a parish around the Nätra Church, which has existed since the Middle Ages. In the 1530s to 1540s the place was mentioned as Bijelsstadz or Biedsta . From the original parish of Nätra socken , the rural municipality of the same name (landskommun) emerged in 1862 , which in turn became part of Örnsköldsvik municipality in 1971.

Today, the place is primarily a residential suburb for the regional economic center Örnsköldsvik.

Attractions

In Bjästa is the classicist Nätra Church, built between 1805 and 1807, which replaced a previous building from the 14th century.

The place is named for the archipelago Bjästa skärgård with islands and old fishing villages such as Trysunda and Ulvöhamn , which are now touristy in the summer months.

At the small settlement Kornsjöstrand on the Kornsjösjön lake, a good four kilometers west of Bjästa, the Nätra market (Nätra marknad) , which has been held again since 1942, with up to 30,000 visitors takes place every year in July , which is in the tradition of between the Middle Ages and the beginning the most important market in Ångermanland in the 20th century.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Statistiska centralbyrån : Land area per Tatort, folkmängd and invånare per square kilometer. Vart femte år 1960 - 2015 (database query)

[scb_aktuell-1] Statistiska centralbyrån : Land area per Tatort, folkmängd and invånare per square kilometer. Vart femte år 1960 - 2015 (database query)