Korpilombolo

Korpilombolo ( Sami Dállogilli ) is a place ( tätort ) in the Swedish province of Norrbotten County and in the historical province of Norrbotten.

Location

Korpilombolo belongs to the municipality of Pajala. The place is located above the Arctic Circle, about 150 km as the crow north-northeast of the provincial capital and 40 km south-southwest of Luleå main town of the municipality, Pajala, on Korpilompolojoki, a small left-hand tributary of the Kalixälven. Korpilombolo to Pajala is the second largest town of the community. The area around Korpilombolo part of the seed dressing Korju sameby whose name is composed of the beginnings of the place names Korpilombolo and Juoksengi.

Through the village leads the provincial road 392, the Överkalix on the European road 10 connects with the community center Pajala near the Finnish border. This is in Korpilombolo crossed by a secondary provincial road Övertorneå after Tärendö (formerly Provincial Road 393).

Place name

The name of the place sounds in the Swedish unusual: as the literary historian Fredrik Böök felt reminiscent of the place Lombolo in the present Republic of Congo during a visit to the town in 1924; Colombian poet and diplomat of Swedish descent León de Greiff (1895-1976) put it also in the 1920s in relation to the Colombian Bolombolo ( at Venecia in Departamento de Antioquia ), in philosophical and symbolic meaning as " absolute haven ". The name provides a transformation of an originally Finnish or Sami name dar. is On Sami kuorpa for a hit by a forest fire place, luobbal for a widening of a river course; Lompolo is in Finnish, a regional common term for small lakes or ponds. The current Sami place name differs, however, from the original name.

On the exotic place names, reference was made in a number of Swedish songs and movies. Agnetha Fältskog So sang the early 1970s, before her time at ABBA, the song Tio mil kvar till Korpilombolo to German Ten miles to Korpilombolo (1975 was covered by the Dansband Wizex on their second album Rusar vidare ), with the following line Tåget det ... rusar hemat i natten ( ... leads the train home ' at night). In reality, the place never had railroad connection.

History

Korpilombolo was born in an area where settled originating from the slightly more southerly area around Övertorneå farmers from the 16th century. Previously, it was inhabited only by " forest seeds " without fixed settlements. The first known courtyard of the village dates from 1680 was built by a Erik Mickelsson Kärki from Kuivakangas at Övertorneå.

In the 19th century, in addition to agriculture, the Teergewinnung was a major industry. 1870 was Korpilombolo rural community center. The community reached its highest population of 4058 in 1954, the place itself in 1970 with 861 residents. In 1970, the municipality of Pajala in the community.

In Korpilombolo the European Festival of the Night for literature, philosophy and art is organized every year since 2005 during the polar night in the first half of December.