Kåge (place)

Kåge
Kåge
State :	Sweden
Province  (län):	Västerbotten County
Historical Province (landskap):	Västerbotten
Municipality  :	Skellefteå
Coordinates :	64 ° 50 ′  N , 20 ° 59 ′  E Coordinates: 64 ° 50 ′  N , 20 ° 59 ′  E
SCB code :	8228
Status:	Crime scene
Residents :	2376 (December 31, 2015)
Area :	2.71 km²
Population density :	877 inhabitants / km²
List of perpetrators in Västerbotten County

Kåge is a place ( Tatort ) in the Swedish province of Västerbotten County , in the historic province (landskap) Västerbotten .

location

Kåge belongs to the municipality of Skellefteå and within this, since January 1, 2016, to the district of Kågedalen. With almost 2400 inhabitants, the place is the fifth largest town in the municipality (2015). It is about 120 km as the crow flies north-northeast of the provincial capital Umeå and 10 km north of Skellefteå at the mouth of the Kågeälven river in the Bottenwiek , the northernmost part of the Baltic Sea .

On the eastern edge of the town, along the coast, the European route 4 also runs . Up the Kågeälven, the AC 867 provincial road branches off to Jörn . The nearest train station is in Skellefteå on the Bastuträsk – Skelleftehamn (Skelleftebanan) railway line , which has only been used for freight traffic since 1990. The next passenger stations have since been Jörn and Bastuträsk on the Nordlandbahn .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1505. In the 17th century there was under King Charles XI. Plans to found a town called Hedvigstad (after Karl's mother Hedwig Eleonora von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf ) in place of the place ; These were then given up in favor of Piteå , which was already developing economically well, 60 kilometers to the north . In the area around Kåge, Skellefteå was the first place to receive town charter in place of the parish village of Norrböle.

For a long time, Kåge itself remained a port and fishing village of only local importance, with agriculture in the area; It was not until the second half of the 19th century that industrial companies began to settle, initially sawmills and fish-processing factories. Today there is also a plastic container factory and a specialty foundry.

Administratively, the place initially belonged to the parish Skellefteå socken , from which the rural municipality of the same name (landskommun) emerged in 1863 . This merged in 1967 in the municipality of Skellefteå, from which the present municipality (kommun) emerged in 1971 .

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  Main street (Storgatan) from Kåge

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  Kåge Church

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  Listed rope factory

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  Sawmill of the Norra Skogsägarna Cooperative

Attractions

Kåge is home to one of the best-preserved rope mills (repslageri) in Sweden. The 110 meter long building was erected in 1874, moved to its current location in 1928, has been a listed building since 1991 and is now a branch of the Skellefteå museum .

The town's church was built between 1924 and 1926.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Margot Wallström (* 1954), politician, Swedish Foreign Minister since 2014

Web links

Commons : Kåge  - 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)