Insjön

Insjön
Insjön
State :	Sweden
Province  (län):	Dalarna County
Historical Province (landskap):	Dalarna
Municipality  :	Leksand
Coordinates :	60 ° 41 ′  N , 15 ° 6 ′  E Coordinates: 60 ° 41 ′  N , 15 ° 6 ′  E
SCB code :	6596
Status:	Crime scene
Residents :	2141 (December 31, 2015)
Area :	3.68 km²
Population density :	582 inhabitants / km²
List of perpetrators in Dalarna County

Insjön is a place ( Tatort ) in the Swedish province of Dalarnas län and in the historical province of Dalarna .

location

Insjön belongs to the municipality of Leksand . The place is a good 30 km as the crow flies west-northwest of the provincial capital Falun and eight kilometers southeast of the Leksand community center on the left bank of the Österdalälven , the left component of the Dalälven . Above the village, the river leaves the eponymous lake Insjön. Insjön is the second largest town in the municipality after its central town Leksand.

The place is on the railway line from Uppsala to Mora (on the section from Borlänge also called Siljansbanan ; route kilometers 194), which was opened in 1881 to Insjön and in 1891 to Mora. Also, the National Highway 70, which in Enköping northwest of Stockholm starts is the most important compound from this direction into the Dalarna and further to Idre and Norwegian limit on the amount of the south end of the Femundsees leads.

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  Åls kyrka

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  Clas Ohlson Museum

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  Åhlén & Holms paviljong

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  Record label Matador of the mail order company Åhlén & Holm, Insjön (before 1915)

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  Weaving room in Sätergläntan

history

The place was first mentioned in 1325 as an eel . A church was built there in the Middle Ages , which subsequently became the center of the parish of Åhl, from 1863 the seat of a rural community (landkommun) . After the provisional terminus of the railway line to Dalarna, a little away from the original location, was named Insjön after the nearby lake in 1881 , the place also took on this name in 1884. The parish is still called Åhl (sometimes the modern spelling Ål is in use).

As part of the municipal reform in 1971 Insjön initially remained an independent municipality, but was already part of the municipality of Leksand in 1974.

Attractions

In the northeastern part of the village, by Lake Insjön, is the Åhls or Åls kyrka church , which was built from 1761 to 1767 on the site of a previous medieval building in its current form.

economy

Insjön is the headquarters and main logistical base of the major mail order and retail company Clas Ohlson AB . It has been based there since it was founded in 1918 (initially spelled Clas Ohlsson ) and today has more than 140 branches in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Great Britain . The Clas Ohlson department store in Insjön, located in the important tourist area around Lake Siljan , now attracts several hundred thousand visitors to the town every year. There is also a sawmill in the village .

Another large trading company, the Åhléns department store chain, also had its origins in Insjön . It was founded in 1899 as the Åhlén & Holm mail order company and was based in Insjön until the company's headquarters were relocated to Stockholm in 1915. One of the two founders, Johan Petter Åhlén , was originally called Andersson , but changed this very common name from the original place name Åhl to Åhlén.

There is a museum on the history of the Clas Ohlson company ; Nearby is the original Åhlén & Holm headquarters, which has been restored to its original state .

education

A little away from Insjön is Sätergläntan , which was established at the beginning of the 20th century as a vocational training facility for folk handicrafts and arts and crafts ( hemslöjd in Swedish ). One year of vocational training and crash courses in forging, weaving, sewing and woodworking are offered there today.

traffic

Insjön has a train station on the Rättvik – Borlänge railway line .

Personalities

• Johan Petter Åhlén (1879–1939), entrepreneur and curling player , born in Åhl
• Tore Hedwall (* 1945), ice hockey player, born in Insjön
• Oskar Lindberg (1887–1955), composer, born in nearby Gagnef , owned a summer house with an organ on the Knippboberget mountain near Insjön (hence the name orgelstuga ), where he composed and performed some of his works
• Clas Ohlson (1895–1979), entrepreneur, born in Insjön
• Ernst Rolf (1891–1932), was employed by Åhlén & Holm in Insjön before starting his career as an entertainer

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. ↑ Åhls kyrka on the website of the Church of Sweden (Swedish)
3. ↑ Åls kyrka  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)  

Web links

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