Stenungsund

This article deals with Stenungsund in Sweden; for the municipality of Stenungsund, see Stenungsund (municipality) .

Stenungsund
Stenungsund
State :	Sweden
Province  (län):	Västra Götalands län
Historical Province (landskap):	Bohuslan
Municipality  :	Stenungsund
Coordinates :	58 ° 5 '  N , 11 ° 49'  E Coordinates: 58 ° 5 '  N , 11 ° 49'  E
SCB code :	4568
Status:	Crime scene
Residents :	13,093 (December 31, 2015)
Area :	12.25 km²
Population density :	1069 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	444 00 - 444 91
List of perpetrators in Västra Götaland County

Stenungsund

chapel

Stenungsund is a place ( tätort ) urbanized in the Swedish province of County of Västra Götaland and the historical province of Bohuslän . It is the capital of the municipality of the same name .

The place is 47 km north of Gothenburg and 43 km south of Uddevalla . From here there are permanent connections to the offshore islands of Orust and Tjörn .

history

Stenungsund began as a berth for ships and developed into a seaside resort in the Gothenburg region in the 19th century. A stronger development spurt began in the 1940s when a steam power plant and a petrochemical plant were established. In the 1960s, the population of Stenungsund tripled and was thus higher than the population of nearby towns such as Lysekil and Strömstad .

economy

Petrochemicals

Today, Stenungsund is one of the most important Swedish centers for the production of plastics and their preliminary stages. An oil-fired thermal power station, which is located in a cavity that was previously blown into the mountain, served as the basis for the chemical plants. The four chimneys of the thermal power station shape the silhouette of the place today.

Other industries

The place is a much visited tourist center in summer and also a trading center for the southern Bohuslän .

Culture

Worth seeing

The Domarring of Stenungsund

The Domarring of Stenungsund (also called Norum 19: 1) is a prehistoric stone circle . The Stenungsunds Kapell on the Kirchenberg was taken into use in 1925 but was not officially inaugurated until 1927. The funds for the construction of the chapel were collected from the members of the parishes of two neighboring islands.

Two buildings in the village function as a local museum and are run by the local heritage association, which was founded in 1950.

Sports

Stenungsund is a center for sailing . For example, the Tjörn runt sailing regatta is started here every year . The local football club, Stenungsunds IF , played in the second division of Sweden for some time in the 1990s.

additional

There are public transport links to Gothenburg by train (around 36 minutes) and bus (around 54 minutes).

Two local newspapers, ST-Tidningen and Stenungsunds-Posten, are published locally.

Web links

Commons : Stenungsund  - album with pictures, 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)