Gräddö och Rävsnäs

Gräddö och Rävsnäs
Gräddö och Rävsnäs
State :	Sweden
Province  (län):	Stockholm County
Historical Province (landskap):	Uppland
Municipality  :	Norrtälje
Coordinates :	59 ° 46 ′  N , 19 ° 2 ′  E Coordinates: 59 ° 46 ′  N , 19 ° 2 ′  E
SCB code :	0206
Status:	Crime scene
Residents :	556 (December 31, 2015)
Area :	5.92 km²
Population density :	94 inhabitants / km²
List of perpetrators in Stockholm County

Gräddö steamship landing stage (around 1910)

Gräddö och Rävsnäs is a place ( Tatort ) in the Swedish province of Stockholm County and the historic province of Uppland . The place is part of the municipality Norrtälje and consists of the formerly independent places Gräddö and Rävsnäs (also Räfsnäs ). The latter is a good two kilometers east of the center of the larger Gräddö.

history

Räfsnäs was mentioned as early as the 13th century as a landing stage on King Waldemar's sailing route .

In August 1809, during the Russian-Swedish war, the Swedish expeditionary corps sailed from Gräddö to Ratan near Robertsfors in Västerbotten in order to push back the invading Russian army.

The shipping company Viking Line started ferry operations from Gräddö to Mariehamn on Åland in 1959 and then on to Galtby in the archipelago off Turku in Finland . In the 1990s, traffic was relocated to Kapellskär, a good five kilometers south of the route, which is more convenient in terms of shipping and road traffic, as the starting point on the Swedish side of the route.

In 2015, the former Småorte Gräddo, which already had more than 200 inhabitants but too high a proportion of holiday homes according to the definition of the crime scene, and Rävsnäs were merged into a new crime scene under the current name, after the built-up area of ​​the two towns had actually grown together.

Individual evidence

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