Fredrika

Fredrika
Fredrika
State :	Sweden
Province  (län):	Västerbotten County
Historical Province (landskap):	Lapland
Municipality  :	Åsele
Coordinates :	64 ° 5 '  N , 18 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 64 ° 5 '  N , 18 ° 24'  E
SCB code :	S8431
Status:	Småort
Residents :	154 (December 31, 2015)
Area :	0.47 km²
Population density :	328 inhabitants / km²
Height :	300  m above sea level

Fredrika ( South Sami Vistege ) is a place ( Småort ) in the Swedish province of Västerbotten County and in the extreme southeast of the historic province of Lapland .

Buddha statue in Fredrika

location

Fredrika is part of Åsele municipality . The place is about 100 km as the crow flies west-northwest of Umeå and a good 50 km east of the main town of the municipality, Åsele , on the lake Vikasjön. Fredrika is the second largest town in the municipality after Åsele.

By Fredrika leads out Vännäs coming at Umeå Reichsstraße  92 further over Åsele by Dorotea on Inlandsvägen E 45 . Provincial road  352, coming from the south of Örnsköldsvik , joins Fredrika .

history

The place, located in an area that has also been populated by Sweden since the middle of the 18th century , was initially called Viska , from the Sami visteke for 'a place rich in reindeer lichen '. In 1799 it was given its current name after Friederike von Baden , as Fredrika Dorotea Vilhelmina wife of Gustav IV Adolf and Queen of Sweden between 1797 and 1809. The villages of Dorotea and Vilhelmina in the region were named after her.

Not far from the village, a large Buddhist temple was built in 2005 on the initiative of the Thai Theravada monk Phramaha Boonthin Taosiri ; a Buddha statue was erected in 2007.

The town's population has decreased to around a third since the mid-1960s, when it peaked at around 500. By dropping below 200 in 2015, Fredrika lost the crime scene status .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Statistiska centralbyrån : Småorter 2015, byggnader, areal, överlapp tatorter, coordinater (Excel file)
2. ↑ Buddharama Temple ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Åseleportalen (Swedish) 

Web links

• Website of the place (Swedish)