Boden (city in Sweden)
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State : | Sweden | |||
Province (län): | Norrbotten County | |||
Historical Province (landskap): | Norrbotten | |||
Municipality : | ground | |||
Coordinates : | 65 ° 50 ′ N , 21 ° 41 ′ E | |||
SCB code : | 8544 | |||
Status: | Crime scene | |||
Residents : | 16,830 (December 31, 2015) | |||
Area : | 14.02 km² | |||
Population density : | 1200 inhabitants / km² | |||
List of perpetrators in Norrbotten County |
Boden [ 'bu: dən ] ( Sami Suttes , Finnish Puuti, Putas ) is a city in the Swedish province of Norrbotten County and the historic province of Norrbotten . The main town of the municipality of the same name is located about 35 kilometers northwest of Luleå on Lule älv .
history
Boden was originally a small farming village that became a church village with the completion of a church in 1831 . The development of the settlement began with the construction of the railway. In 1888 the Gällivare- Luleå railway was inaugurated, which ran past Boden. In 1894 the main northern railway line from Stockholm reached bottom. With the completion of the ore railway to Narvik , Boden became an important transport hub.
The good transport connections and the favorable geographical location led the Swedish Diet in 1900 to decide to build a large fortress around Boden . Within two decades, the city's population doubled from 2,500 in 1900 to 6,000 in 1918. In 1919, Boden received city rights.
In the decades that followed, several regiments were stationed in Boden and the town became an important military training center. Because of its important strategic location, Boden was also known as the “Gibraltar of the North”.
Sports
Boden has a football club, Bodens BK , which plays in Division 1 Norra (3rd division, North Season).
Furthermore, Boden has a trotting track.
Personalities
- Peter Englund (* 1957), writer and historian (10th member of the Swedish Academy )
- Karin Hammar (* 1974), jazz musician
- Mimmi Hammar (* 1968), jazz musician
- Tommy Johansson (* 1987), metal musician and singer
- Eyvind Johnson (1900–1976), writer ( Nobel Prize in Literature 1974), in the town of Svartbjörnsbyn
- Seth Olofsson (1915–1970), military patrol runner
- Johanna Larsson (* 1988), tennis player
- Elias Lindholm (* 1994), ice hockey player
- Jenny Rogneby (* 1974), writer
- Morgan Samuelsson (* 1968), ice hockey player and coach
- Oskar Sundqvist (* 1994), ice hockey player
- Gunnar Svensson (1920–1995), jazz musician, comedian and film composer
- Niclas Wallin (* 1975), ice hockey player
literature
- Floor . In: Bernhard Meijer (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 3 : Bergsvalan – Branstad . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1905, Sp. 858 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).