Corpilombolo

Corpilombolo
Corpilombolo
State :	Sweden
Province  (län):	Norrbotten County
Historical Province (landskap):	Norrbotten
Municipality  :	Pajala
Coordinates :	66 ° 51 '  N , 23 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 66 ° 51 '  N , 23 ° 3'  E
SCB code :	8688
Status:	Crime scene
Residents :	539 (December 31, 2015)
Area :	1.11 km²
Population density :	486 inhabitants / km²
List of perpetrators in Norrbotten County

Korpilombolo ( Sami Dállogilli ) is a place ( tätort ) in the Swedish province of Norrbotten County and the historic province of Norrbotten .

location

Korpilombolo Church, built 1856-1859

Korpilombolo belongs to the Pajala municipality . The place is beyond the Arctic Circle , almost 150 km as the crow flies north-northeast of the provincial capital Luleå and 40 km south-southwest of the capital of the municipality, Pajala , on Korpilompolojoki, a small left tributary of the Kalixälven . Korpilombolo is the second largest town in the municipality after Pajala. The area around Korpilombolo part of the seed dressing Korju sameby whose name from the dawn of place names Cor pilombolo and Ju oksengi composed.

Provincial road 392, which connects Överkalix on European route 10 with the community center Pajala near the Finnish border, runs through the village . This is crossed in Korpilombolo by a secondary provincial road from Övertorneå to Tärendö (formerly provincial road 393).

Place name

The name of the place sounds unusual in Swedish too : this is how the literary historian Fredrik Böök felt reminded of the place Lombolo in today's Republic of the Congo when he visited the place in 1924 ; the Colombian poet and diplomat of Swedish descent León de Greiff (1895-1976) also related it in the 1920s to the Colombian Bolombolo (near Venecia in the Departamento de Antioquia ), in philosophical and symbolic meaning as an “absolute refuge”. The name is a conversion of an originally Finnish or Sami name. In Sami, kuorpa stands for a place hit by a forest fire , luobbal for a broadening of a river; lompolo is also a regional name for small lakes or ponds in Finnish. The current Sami place name, however, differs from the original name.

The exotic place name has been referred to in a number of Swedish songs and films. So sang Agnetha Faltskog the early 1970s, prior to joining ABBA , the song Tio mil kvar till Korpilombolo to German Ten Miles to Korpilombolo (1975 by the Dansband Wizex on their second album Rusar vidare gecovert ), with the following line … Tåget det rusar hemåt i natten (… the train rushes home 'in the night) . In reality, the place never had a rail link.

history

Korpilombolo was created in an area where farmers from the area around Övertorneå, a little further south, settled in the 16th century. Before it was only inhabited by "forest seeds" without permanent settlements. The first known farm in the village dates from 1680 and was built by Erik Mickelsson Kärki from Kuivakangas near Övertorneå.

In the 19th century, tar extraction was an important industry alongside agriculture . In 1870 Korpilombolo became a rural community center. The municipality reached its highest population of 4058 in 1954, the place itself in 1970 with 861 inhabitants. In 1970 the church went up in Pajala Municipality.

Since 2005, Korpilombolo has held the European Festival of the Night for literature, philosophy and art every year during the polar night in the first half of December .

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. ↑ Map of Korju sameby the Sami Parliament
3. ↑ ^{a b} Website of the European Festival of the Night (Swedish, partly German, English, Spanish)

Web links

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

• Website of the place (Swedish)