Ovanåker

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Ovanåker
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Ovanåker
Ovanåker
Localization of Gävleborg in Sweden
State : Sweden
Province  (län): Gävleborg County
Historical Province (landskap): Hälsingland
Municipality  : Ovanåker
Coordinates : 61 ° 22 ′  N , 15 ° 54 ′  E Coordinates: 61 ° 22 ′  N , 15 ° 54 ′  E
SCB code : S7048
Status: Småort
Residents : 189 (December 31, 2015)
Area : 0.56 km²
Population density : 338 inhabitants / km²

Ovanåker is a place ( Småort ) in the Swedish province of Gävleborgs län and the historic province (landskap) Hälsingland . It belongs to the municipality of the same name , but is not its main town, and is six kilometers east of Edsbyn .

The name Ovanåker is derived from the name of the church village, which is first recorded as Offuanååker in 1542 . Ovanåker Church dates from 1621.

Before 2015, Ovanåker had the status of a crime scene with 212 inhabitants most recently (2010), but then lost it due to the excessive distance to part of the residential development according to the crime scene definition.

Personalities

  • Anders Celsius (1701–1744), Swedish astronomer, mathematician and physicist

Individual evidence

  1. a b Statistiska centralbyrån : Småorter 2015, byggnader, areal, överlapp tatorter, coordinater (Excel file)
  2. Svenskt local dictionary . Språk- och folkminnesinstitutet (SOFI), Uppsala, 2003. p. 247. ISBN 917229020X