Selånger

This article describes the place; for winter sports enthusiasts see Sven Selånger .

Selånger
Selånger
State :	Sweden
Province  (län):	Västernorrlands Lan
Historical Province (landskap):	Medelpad
Municipality  :	Sundsvall
Coordinates :	62 ° 24 '  N , 17 ° 12'  E Coordinates: 62 ° 24 '  N , 17 ° 12'  E
SCB code :	7642
Status:	Crime scene
Residents :	324 (December 31, 2015)
Area :	1.11 km²
Population density :	292 inhabitants / km²
List of perpetrators in Västernorrland County

Selånger 's place ( tätort ) in the municipality of Sundsvall the Swedish province of Västernorrland County . It is located a good five kilometers west of the center of the city of Sundsvall. Selånger was the most important port and center of the Medelpad province in the Middle Ages .

history

New church in Selånger

According to tradition, in Selånger, Olav the saint climbed ashore on his return from Gardarike (Russia) in 1030 and started his march to Stiklestad from here . That is why this place was given the honorary name “Sankt Olavs hamn” and was the most important starting point for the pilgrimage to Nidaros . It runs along a chain of Olavs springs through Medelpad, Jämtland and Trøndelag . Folk tradition places the port below the old church ruins . The exact location has not yet been determined. The tradition was written down around 1680 by Harden Hauptmann (häradshövding) Eric Teet.

A large number of rich burial mounds in the vicinity from the earlier Iron Age prove that Selånger was an important center and seat of a powerful aristocratic family, possibly even a small kingdom in central Sweden, very early on. Five of the 18 known Viking Age rune stones from Medelpad also come from there. The name "Hov" for a location west of Kungsnäs also indicates a center of early pagan religious practice. Remains of an extensive lime distillery from the 13th and 14th centuries were found on the grounds of the royal court. Its importance in the 14th century in the time of Magnus Eriksson is underlined by a coin find and traces of intensive development from this period.

In the section about the king in Hälsing's law , Selånger is mentioned as one of six royal courts in Norrland and the seat of the bailiff and bailiff . The taxes from the region were brought there. In 1314, the residents of Medelpad vowed to pay the Olav tax to Uppsala Cathedral for the spring tinging in Selånger. This law applied to the whole of Norrland, but the main copy was kept in Selånger's church, from which the prominent position of Selånger results.

At the end of the 16th century, incendiary fins ( svedjefinnar ; named after the smelting of ore deposits that had been found in Sweden) immigrated . But their influence remained small.

At the beginning of the 17th century, Sundsvall was founded and gradually assumed the leading position in the region. But even at this time, the Kungsnäs peninsula in Selanger with its old royal court was still used for a long time as the seat of the governor ( landshövding ) because of its central and convenient location .

Since the Middle Ages the seat of a parish ( socks ), Selånger is still a center named after him parish ( församling ) in the Diocese of Härnösand . In 1780 a new church in neo-classical style was built to replace the old church.

The place was long considered a district of Sundsvall, but in 2015 it was designated as an independent crime scene due to its separate location . The previously independent Småorter Kungsnäs, Nävsta och Selånger and Hov and Västerro och Lillro, which followed in a westerly direction , were merged in the new Tatort .

literature

• Leif Grundberg: Hamn i kungens namn! Sankt Olavs hamn i Selånger - Medelpads medeltida centrum. In: Helgonet i Nidaros. Olavskult och Kristnande in the north. o. O. (1997). Pp. 208-221.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Statistiska centralbyrån : Land area per crime scene, folkmängd och invånare per square kilometer. Vart femte år 1960 - 2015 (database query)
2. ↑ Grundberg, p. 208.
3. ↑ Grundberg, p. 210.