Hudiksvall

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Hudiksvall
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Hudiksvall
Hudiksvall
Localization of Gävleborg in Sweden
State : Sweden
Province  (län): Gävleborg County
Historical Province (landskap): Hälsingland
Municipality  : Hudiksvall
Coordinates : 61 ° 44 ′  N , 17 ° 6 ′  E Coordinates: 61 ° 44 ′  N , 17 ° 6 ′  E
SCB code : 7120
Status: Crime scene
Residents : 16,081 (December 31, 2015)
Area : 12.99 km²
Population density : 1238 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 824 01 - 824 94
List of perpetrators in Gävleborg County

Hudiksvall is a city in the Swedish province of Gävleborgs län and the historic province of Hälsingland . It is located about 120 kilometers north of the provincial capital Gävle on European route 4 and has a good 16,000 inhabitants (2015). Hudiksvall is the capital of the municipality of Hudiksvall .

history

Hudiksvall is the second oldest city in Norrland after Gävle and received city ​​rights from John III in 1582 . awarded. Due to its port and stacking rights , the city grew rapidly and was Norrland's second largest city by 1630. But the loss of the advantageous trade privileges in 1836 led to slow stagnation. In 1721 Hudiksvall was burned down by Russian troops. After that, the city recovered only slowly. It was not until the second half of the 19th century that there was a more rapid upswing when Hudiksvall became Norrland's most important export port for wood products. After a fire in 1792, the district of Fiskarstaden was created, today one of the best preserved districts of that time. Another major fire in the 1870s destroyed large parts of the city, which were rebuilt in a checkerboard plan. From this time there are districts with a uniform wooden architecture. A number of representative urban buildings were also erected.

Hudiksvall Harbor

economy

Hudiksvall is traditionally an administrative and school town. Gävleborg Municipality and Provincial Parliament are the largest employers. The industrial sector also plays an important role with companies such as Hiab Sverige AB, Huddig AB and Voith Turbo Safeset AB . Ericsson Network Technologies AB's cable factory with 320 employees was closed in December 2013. After a takeover by Hexatronic, only about 85 employees work there.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities related to the city

  • Olof Broman (1676–1750), Swedish doctor, vicar and principal of the Hudiksvall trivial school

Buildings

In the vicinity of Hudiksvall is the Storbergsmasten , a guyed transmission mast for VHF and TV, which is one of the four tallest structures in Sweden.

literature

Web links

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

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. ↑ ericsson.com