Bastuträsk

Bastuträsk is a place ( tätort ) in the Swedish province of Västerbotten County and in the historic province of Västerbotten.

Location

Bastuträsk belongs to the municipality Norsjö. The village is located about 40 km as the crow flies west of Skellefteå and about 30 km south-east of the main town of the municipality, Norsjö. Bastuträsk after Norsjö the second largest and one of the two Tätorte the community.

The place is junction on the leading of Central Sweden to ground railway Stambanan genome övre Norrland (northern runway, 968 route km from Stockholm ). In a Bastuträsk branches to Skellefteå and on to Skelleftehamn and the smelting works of Rönnskär on the Baltic coast branch line leading from ( Skelleftebanan ). On the branch line there since 1990, no persons; the connection between Skellefteå and Bastuträsk is maintained by buses.

Through the town performs a secondary provincial road from Skellefteå to Norsjö that connects beyond Norsjö to the north about cars running provincial road 370 (part of the Guldvägen ) towards Malå. This also Gamla Malåvägen ( Old Malåstraße ) said connecting via Bastuträsk has existed since the 19th century, was first in 1951 as a provincial road ( Länshuvudväg ) the number 370, and was then from 1964 county road 369, before 1986 was downgraded to secondary provincial road because they had lost their meaning for the passage of traffic to the associated with the mining activities to cars and Kristine Berg middle of the 20th century, more generous and straightforward trassierte provincial road 370. In Bastuträsk one of Nordlandbahn opens the following, coming from the south of Hällnäs at Vindeln secondary provincial road.

History

The village grew up around a railway station in connection with the construction of Nordlandbahn 1894. Previously there had been in the area no coherent development. It was named after the far north-west lake Bastuträsket. Bastuträsk 1910 was the starting point for the branch line to Skellefteå, which was further completed by 1912 there Skelleftehamn 1914, which stresses the importance of station and town grew.

Since the mid-20th century, when Bastuträsk nearly 1000 people lived, the population of the town was reduced to less than half. Today, there are a number of small businesses, including food production and forestry.