Bureå

Bureå
Bureå
State :	Sweden
Province  (län):	Västerbotten County
Historical Province (landskap):	Västerbotten
Municipality  :	Skellefteå
Coordinates :	64 ° 37 ′  N , 21 ° 12 ′  E Coordinates: 64 ° 37 ′  N , 21 ° 12 ′  E
SCB code :	8144
Status:	Crime scene
Residents :	2533 (December 31, 2015)
Area :	3.92 km²
Population density :	646 inhabitants / km²
List of perpetrators in Västerbotten County

Bureå is a place ( Tatort ) in the Swedish province of Västerbotten County and the historic province of Västerbotten .

location

The place in the municipality of Skellefteå is about 20 kilometers as the crow flies southeast of the main town Skellefteå on the coast of the Bottenwiek , the northernmost part of the Baltic Sea . In Bureå the river Bureälven flows into the Burefjärden , part of the Skelleftebucht . Europastraße 4 leads past the western edge of the village. About five kilometers west of Bureå located near the lake Falmarksträsket of Skellefteå airport .

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  Bureå kyrka from 1920

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  Organ of the Bureå kyrka

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  Skelleftea Airport not far from Bureå

history

The area of ​​today's Bureå was already inhabited in the Bronze and Iron Ages ; there are a number of archaeological sites. The place name appears for the first time in 1507 in the form Bwre , derived from the earlier name of the river Bureälven, Bura . There was possibly a monastery on the monastery hill (Klosterholmen) in the 15th and 16th centuries .

The first water-powered sawmills on the Bureälven were built in 1796 and 1797. The wood processing industry determined the local economy for the next two centuries. In 1914 Bureå became an independent municipality, which existed until it was joined to the municipality of Skellefteå in 1967. In 1972 Mo och Domsjö AB (today Holmen AB ) shut down the last sawmill in the town, which it had taken over in 1965. In 1992 the production of wood pulp (according to the Schliff process, Swedish träsliperi ) was discontinued.

As a result of the decline of local industry, Bureå is now primarily a residence for commuters who work in Skellefteå .

Attractions

In Bureå is the Bureå Church (Bureå kyrka) designed by Fredrik Falkenberg (1865–1924) and built from 1917 to 1920 .

Sons and daughters of the place

• Orvar Bergmark (1930–2004), soccer and bandy player and soccer coach

Web links

• Website of the place (Swedish)
• Bureås Hembygdsförening (Bureå Heritage Association , 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)