Vi (Sundsvall)

Vi
Vi
State :	Sweden
Province  (län):	Västernorrlands Lan
Historical Province (landskap):	Medelpad
Municipality  :	Sundsvall
Coordinates :	62 ° 26 '  N , 17 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 62 ° 26 '  N , 17 ° 25'  E
SCB code :	7404
Status:	Crime scene
Residents :	5841 (December 31, 2015)
Area :	6.29 km²
Population density :	929 inhabitants / km²
List of perpetrators in Västernorrland County

Vi (older spellings Vii, Wii, Wi, unofficially also Alnö-Vi ) is a place ( Tatort ) in the Swedish province of Västernorrlands län , in the historical province of Medelpad .

location

Vi belongs to the municipality of Sundsvall , within this part of the municipality (kommundel) and since January 1, 2016 to the district of Alnö. The place is about 35 km as the crow flies southwest of the provincial capital Härnösand and about 8 km northeast of the center of Sundsvall on the western side of the island of Alnön in the Bottensee . The island is separated from the mainland by the Alnösundet strait, which is about 1 km wide. On the opposite bank are Johannedal and Tunadal, districts of Sundvall. Vi is the third largest town in the municipality with almost 6000 inhabitants (2015).

At Vi the 1 km long Alnöbron (Alnöbron) reaches the island. The bridge was built from 1961 to 1964 and was the longest bridge in Sweden until the opening of the Öland Bridge in 1972. Road Y615, which branches off from European route 4 in the north of Sundsvall, near the Bydalen district, crosses the bridge . The Y665 crosses the town in a north-south direction. There is a city bus connection to Sundsvall, where the nearest train station is located.

history

The place name probably refers to a Germanic sacrificial site that was located in the area of ​​today's settlement in the 5th century. The place itself goes back to the villages of Alvik and Vi, which gained greater economic importance with the establishment of sawmills in the 19th century ( Alviks sågverk 1869, Wii sågverk 1876) and gradually grew together. They initially belonged to the parish of Alnö socken , the center of which was a little to the north and from which the rural community Alnö landskommun was formed in 1872 . On January 1, 1965, the rural community in the city of Sundsvall went up, from which in 1971 today's community (commun) emerged .

Until 1980 the crime scene was run under the name Alvik . Gustavsberg, which is adjacent to the south, has been part of the crime scene Vi since 2015.

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  Center, left the "sawmill monument"

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  Old Alnö Church

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  New Alnö Church

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  View from Sundsvall to the Alnö Bridge, to the right of it on the island of Vi

Attractions

On the northern edge of the village, near the Rökland district, are the Old and New Alnö Churches ( Alnö gamla kyrka and Alnö nya kyrka ), the centers of the parish of the same name. The old church was built in the 12th century and in its current form in the 15th-18th centuries Century. The new church by the architect Ferdinand Boberg was built between 1893 and 1896 in neo-Gothic style instead of a wooden church built in 1861–1863 and burned down in June 1888.

The Sågverksminnet memorial has stood in the center of the village since 1985 , commemorating the “sawmill era ” that ended with the closure of the last two of the island's twenty or so sawmills (the last sawmill in today's Vi, the Alvik sawmill, was its site In operation as early as 1950). The memorial was created by artist Aston Forsberg , who was born on the island in 1922 .

Sports

In the Vi especially for its is women's soccer team known club Alnö If a resident. His stadium, Släda idrottsplats , is just outside on the road to the east coast of the island, another, Äppellunda idrottsplats, near the center of town.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Statistiska centralbyrån : Land area per Tatort, folkmängd and invånare per square kilometer. Vart femte år 1960 - 2015 (database query)

Web links

Commons : Vi  - collection of images, videos and audio files