Bollnäs

Bollnäs is a town in the Swedish province of Gävleborg and the historical province of Hälsingland. It is located 30 kilometers west of Söderhamn the River Ljusnan is the capital of the municipality of the same name. Bollnäs is located on the main railway line between Stockholm - Ånge ( Norra stambanan ).

History

Finds evidence of a settlement of the area as early as the Stone Age. Settlement remains from the Iron Age to prove the continued use of this land patch, which continued into medieval settlement forms. In 1851, the Merchant Georg Henric Collini acquired the property Bro gård, which is located in the city center today Brotorget. In a few years he could, favored by steam navigation, expand the settlement into an important trading center. He is regarded as the founder of the city. The road Collinigatan in the city center reminds him today.

In the 1870s, the shipping industry was supplanted by the railway. The city was a railway junction on the main line Stockholm - Ånge ( Norra stambanan ). Important railway workshops such as the main workshop for locomotives were created in Bollnäs. 1888 Bollnäs was a church that was in 1906 raised to the market town. Bollnäs at that time had about 1,000 inhabitants. 1942, the market Björkhamre was incorporated and Bollnäs got city rights. In the 1960s, the center of the city was modernized and in 1987 the old wooden houses were replaced at the edge of the center by modern buildings.

Since 1961 is twinned with Misburg, now a suburb of Hanover.

Economy

Bollnäs is a service center not only for their own community but also for the neighboring communities. About a quarter of working people has been working in the caring professions. Among the industrial enterprises of the tool manufacturer Sandvik AB is the largest, Parator with special models for the traffic load, the internationally best-known companies. The harness racing track at Sävstaås is also a stable economic factor of national importance.

Education

Bollnäs is one of Sweden's largest education and training centers. It offers Grund-/Hauptschulen several branches of upper secondary, vocational schools and university faculties side. In addition, round adult education and retraining opportunities from this file.

With the Höghammarskola in Ren district you will find here one of the largest special schools of Sweden, whose patron Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden is present every year on different occasions.

Attractions

Church of Bollnäs

The large cruciform church ( Bollnäs kyrka ) from the 18th century has its origins in the first half of the 14th century. Oldest evidence, however, report a wooden church from the 12th century on the site.

The present church contains, inter alia, a 3.5 m high, the beginning of the 16th century made ​​in Germany altar shrine with the known, of Haaken Gulleson carved Bollnäs Madonna. The church has one of the best preserved collections of medieval wooden sculptures of Sweden.

Kämpens

In addition to the church with its cemetery surrounding the museum courtyard Kämpens, a small farmhouse from the 17th century in its pristine state. The buildings are all made ​​of raw wood, and with all their museum inventory inhabited. For the visitor provides also outside the opening times the opportunity to listen to a button a multilingual volume on the history Kämpens. The homestead is to be regarded as a counterpart to the museum village in Rengsjö, 10 km to the east.

Onbacken

A fenced with views over the lake at this point Varpen extended watercourse Ljusnan park, which is a testimony to the Iron Age settlement at the same time. Information boards a vivid picture of the ancient settlement with their residential and grave space is created which are now perceive as stone circles and warping. In the neighboring town museum dedicated models, exhibits and publications can round out the picture.

Culture

The city is regarded as one of the strongholds of the Scandinavian Power Metal. Leading representatives of the genre as Morgana Lefay and Tad Morose are located in Bollnäs. Just as the death metal band Gormathon.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Emma Claesson ( b. 1977 ), orienteer
• Anders Eriksson ( born 1975 ), ice hockey player
• Lina Hedlund (born 1978 ), singer
• Jerker Lysell (* 1989), orienteers

Others

In Bollnäs is the 331 meter high Arbråmasten, a radio mast for FM and TV.