Karlsborg (Kalix)

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Karlsborg
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Karlsborg
Karlsborg
Localization of Norrbotten in Sweden
State : Sweden
Province  (län): Norrbotten County
Historical Province (landskap): Norrbotten
Municipality  : Kalix
Coordinates : 65 ° 48 ′  N , 23 ° 18 ′  E Coordinates: 65 ° 48 ′  N , 23 ° 18 ′  E
SCB code : S9003
Status: Småort
Residents : 121 (December 31, 2015)
Area : 1.02 km²
Population density : 119 inhabitants / km²

Karlsborg is a place ( Småort ) in the Swedish province of Norrbotten County , in the historical province (landskap) Norrbotten .

Karlsborg paper mill of BillerudKorsnäs AB

Karlsborg belongs to the municipality of Kalix and within this, since January 1, 2016, to the district of Nederkalix, named after the parish (socken), which has had this name since 1644. It is a good 55 km as the crow flies northeast of the provincial capital Luleå and almost 10 km southeast of Kalix at the mouth of the Kalixälven river in the Repskärsfjärden bay, part of the Baltic Sea's Bottenwiek .

In 2015 Karlsborg, whose population had already fallen by three quarters since the middle of the 20th century (1332 inhabitants in 1960), lost the status of a crime scene due to the excessive distance in the residential development according to the crime scene definition. Since then, the north-east and north somewhat separate residential areas of Skoghem and Vikmanholmen , in which more than half of the inhabitants lived in 2010, have been designated as independent Småorter by the Statistiska centralbyrån .

One of the four Swedish paper mills of BillerudKorsnäs AB is located in Karlsborg . The factory is a leading siding from a few kilometers north past the leading new 2012 opened route of the Haparanda Line (Nya Haparandabanan). The 40 km long stretch from Morjärv to Karlsborgbruk , known as the end point, was put into operation as early as 1961 and is now integrated into the new route. The railway line is reserved for freight traffic. Europastraße 4 ( Europaväg 4 ) also runs a few kilometers north of the town .

The town's church dates from 1911 and was extensively renovated in 1983.

The bandy club Karlsborgs BK played from 1996 to 1999 in the then highest Swedish league, the Bandyallsvenskan .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Statistiska centralbyrån : Småorter 2015, byggnader, areal, överlapp tatorter, coordinater (Excel file)
  2. ↑ Description of the Karlsborgs kyrka on kalixbyar.se (Swedish)