Burträsk

Burträsk is a place ( tätort ) in the Swedish province of Västerbotten County.

The village in the municipality of Skellefteå is situated about 30 km in a straight line south-west of Skellefteå on the western shore of the lake Burträsket, where the river Bureälven entfließt. By Burträsk the Länsväg 364 runs from Umea to Skellefteå, on which the residence city of Umeå is 99 km 39 km away to the south and Skellefteå.

Largest employers of Burträsk are a woodworking operation, the dairy Norrmejerier, in the 1870s the Västerbotten cheese is made, the local hospital and the local schools. From 1965 until the early 1980s, the small kit-car and racing car manufacturer Racing Plast Burträsk was established in Burträsk, and in the 1960s to the 1970s, a boatyard.

First Swedish farmers settled in the area around Burträsk in the 13th to 14th century. With a tax survey of Gustav I Vasa in 1543 but only 67 farms were counted, of which in the vicinity of the present-day village 22 From the second half of the 16th century, the population grew rapidly, and the real place was consolidated around a church until about end of the 18th century.

In Burträsk the composer and music critic Wilhelm Peterson -Berger (1867-1942) grew up.

Church of Burträsk (1963 )

Naturbruksgymnasiet in Åbyn far Burträsk