Iggesund

Iggesund
Iggesund
State :	Sweden
Province  (län):	Gävleborg County
Historical Province (landskap):	Hälsingland
Municipality  :	Hudiksvall
Coordinates :	61 ° 39 ′  N , 17 ° 5 ′  E Coordinates: 61 ° 39 ′  N , 17 ° 5 ′  E
SCB code :	7132
Status:	Crime scene
Residents :	3419 (December 31, 2015)
Area :	4.36 km²
Population density :	784 inhabitants / km²
List of perpetrators in Gävleborg County

Iggesund is a place ( Tatort ) in the Swedish province of Gävleborgs län , in the historical province (landskap) Hälsingland .

location

Iggesund belongs to the municipality of Hudiksvall and within this, since January 1, 2016, to the district of Njutånger (the eponymous place is a few kilometers south). With over 3400 inhabitants (2015), the place is the second largest place in the municipality. It is a good 100 km as the crow flies north of the provincial capital Gävle and about 10 km south of Hudiksvall on the banks of the elongated Iggesundsfjärden of the Bottensee .

In the southern part of the village, the Iggesundsån flows into the bay, which flows from the southwestern lake Viksjön. The height difference of 24 m between lake and sea is used by a small hydroelectric power station to generate electrical energy. Northwest of Iggesund is lake Iggsjön, through which Delångersån flows, which then flows into the Baltic Sea about 10 km northeast.

Iggesund has a train station at kilometer 247 of the East Coast Railway (Ostkustbanan), which connects Stockholm with Sundsvall and was opened continuously on this section in 1924 (from the north) and 1927. Almost 4 km to the west of the village is the new European route 4 , which was opened on this section in 2011 . The old route runs through the town as today's provincial road X 583.

history

Not far from the town, which has been known since the 15th century and initially lived from agriculture and fishing, a paper mill was built as early as 1665 (according to other information 1672) (Östanå pappersbruk), and in the same century (1685) an ironworks , Iggesunds Bruk . In 1721 Iggesund was temporarily occupied by the Russian army and burned down during the Great Northern War .

From the end of the 19th century, the production of the local company was gradually converted to wood processing and paper production. After the Second World War the restructuring was completed; the old ironworks was closed in 1953. The paper mill, one of the largest in Sweden, has been owned by today's Holmen AB under the name Iggesunds Paperboard , as has the woodworking company Iggesunds Timber since the 1980s .

Administratively, the place initially belonged to Njutångers socken , from which the rural commune of the same name (landskommun) emerged in 1863 . During this period Iggesund, with its industrial plants, was by far the largest town in the municipality. With the annexation of the rural community Enånger , the name was finally changed to Iggesunds landskommun in 1952 . This went on in 1971 in the municipality of Hudiksvall.

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  Iggesund Church (built as a meeting place in 1903, consecrated as a church in 1931)

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  Church bells stacks

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  Former ironworks, now a museum

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  Iggesund paper mill

Attractions

The preserved production facilities and administration buildings of the former Iggesunds Bruk ironworks are now a museum.

A few kilometers northeast of Iggesund is the Bodagrottorna cave complex , with a known length of 2600 m, one of the world's largest cave systems in the Precambrian basement .

Sons and daughters of the place

• Ernst Bolldén (1966–2012), table tennis player
• Daniel Rickardsson (* 1982), cross-country skier, grew up in Iggesund
• Gösta Rundqvist (1945–2010), jazz musician

Individual evidence

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

Web links

Commons : Iggesund  - Collection of images, videos and audio files