Sandviken Municipality

Sandviken is a municipality (Swedish kommun ) in the Swedish province of Gävleborg and the historic province Gastrikland. The main town of the municipality is Sandviken.

Other towns are Årsunda, Åshammar, Hammarby, Jäderfors, Järbo, Kungsgården, Österfärnebo, Storvik. Passing through the municipality, the European Route 16 and the railroad main line Gävle - Falun.

Geography

The municipality covers the foothills of the Scandinavian Mountains, about 70 km from north to south. The municipal area is largely a forest -covered hill country with vast wetlands in the east and south of the community. Sandviken 1927 and 1943, market town township. Today's greater community was created with the Swedish municipal reform in 1971 through generous merging the borough Sandviken, a small town ( Linköping ) Storvik and the local churches Järbo, Ovansjö, Årsunda and Österfärnebo. At that time, the different types of municipalities were abolished, therefore Sandviken lost its city charter and was like all the other Swedish municipalities united community.

In the north of the municipality lies the large lake lake, on the north shore lies the city of Sandviken. On the south shore lies Årsunda, with a small interesting church of the 15th century.

The South of the village is dominated by the lower reaches of the Dalalven widens to Färnebofjärden, now a national park. North of the Färnebofjärden is the old Kirchdorf Österfärnebo. From Österfärnebo a headland extends into the Dalalven at the southern tip of the largest prehistoric grave field Gästriklands occupies about 185 stone circles from the early 5th century.

Economy

The community is a traditional industrial community, which is dominated by large companies Sandvik AB. Other industrial enterprises are located in Sandviken and Storvik.

Policy

The election of the municipal council on 17 September 2006 gave the following result. In brackets in each case the results of 2002.

Ny Ordning is a communal party.