Motala

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Motala
Motala coat of arms
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Motala
Motala
Localization of Östergötland in Sweden
State : Sweden
Province  (län): Östergötland County
Historical Province (landskap): Östergötland
Municipality  : Motala
Coordinates : 58 ° 32 '  N , 15 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 58 ° 32 '  N , 15 ° 2'  E
SCB code : 1188
Status: Crime scene
Residents : 30,944 (December 31, 2015)
Area : 20.24 km²
Population density : 1529 inhabitants / km²
List of perpetrators in Östergötland County
Street with old workers' houses
The Motala long wave transmitter

Motala is a city in the Swedish province of Östergötland County and the historic province of Östergötland . It is the capital of the municipality of the same name . Motala is located on the east bank of the Vättern and the outflow of the Motala river .

history

In 2000, archaeological investigations were carried out in Motala in connection with the construction of a new railway track . Since the area on the Motala River was built on for a long time, it was hoped that the remains of an outpost of King Gustav Wasa would be found. However, the archaeologists were completely astonished when they excavated the first 8,000-year-old arrowhead made of flint .

In 2010 the phallus of Motala and in 2011 the skulls of Motala speared on stakes were discovered.

Many of the with 5900-5530 BC Finds from the Middle Stone Age (Mesolithic) were genetically investigated and played an important role as comparative material for northern European hunter and gatherer cultures (Haak et al. 2015).

Transmitters

Long wave transmitter

In 1927 a transmitter for Swedish long-wave radio was built in Motala . A T-antenna stretched between two 120 meter high steel lattice towers was used as the transmitting antenna. It still exists ( 58 ° 32 ′ 44 ″ N, 15 ° 2 ′ 34 ″ E ). The location was chosen because it is almost exactly in the middle between the two largest cities and the two coasts of Stockholm and Gothenburg . Both metropolitan areas could be reached from here. The radio programs were transmitted via dedicated lines from the studios in Stockholm to Motala and broadcast there. The transmitter was in operation until 1962. In the 1960s, broadcasting was relocated to Orlunda . On November 30, 1991, Swedish radio ceased operations in the long wave range on the long wave frequency 189 kHz.

Today the transmitter in Motala is an interesting technical museum, from which radio programs are occasionally broadcast on the longwave frequency 189 kHz with low power.

FM transmitter

In the Ervasteby district there is a 332 meter high transmission mast for VHF radio and television. 58 ° 35 ′ 18 "N, 15 ° 5 ′ 45" E

economy

When the Göta Canal was built in the early 19th century , Motala developed into an important trading center on the canal. Motala Verkstad was founded as a world-famous shipyard and manufacturer of steam engines . In science fiction - Roman 20000 miles under the seas of Jules Verne , parts of the submarine Nautilus as in Motala Verkstad called manufactured.

The Luxor company was founded because of the proximity of the long-wave transmitter . Luxor soon became one of the largest manufacturers of radios and later television sets in Sweden. In the 1990s, Luxor was bought by Nokia .

In the Motala Motormuseum , a private museum with an extensive collection of historical vehicles, there is a radio section in which numerous Luxor brand radios are on display.

Motala Motor Museum

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Motala  - 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. Motola: Stenåldersdildon från Motala en världsnyhet , sverigesradio of July 23, 2010
  3. Daniel Koch: Staked skulls pose a riddle . Spectrum of Science Online, from September 23, 2011 (German-language report and images, accessed on July 31, 2014)
  4. Impaled Mesolithic Skulls in a Lake: Kanaljorden, Motala, Sweden still chills . Microburin, accessed July 31, 2014
  5. Heads on stakes - unique Stone Age finds at Kanaljorden, Motala, Sweden . Taenketanken, blog at academia.dk, from September 24, 2011 (English description and pictures, accessed on July 31, 2014)
  6. Long wave transmitters in Norway, France, Sweden, Great Britain, Poland, Denmark, Finland. Retrieved August 5, 2019 .
  7. Ervasteby transmission mast.
  8. ^ Vår historia. (No longer available online.) Motala Verkstad, archived from the original on August 4, 2014 ; Retrieved June 25, 2014 (Swedish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.motalaverkstad.se