Vännäsby

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

Location

Vännäsby belongs to the municipality Vännäs. The village is located about 25 km as the crow northwest of the provincial capital of Umeå and three kilometers east of the main town of the municipality, Vännäs, on the left bank of there 200 meters wide Ume älv. Immediately at the eastern edge of the leads as big Vindelälven as the largest tributary of the Ume älv from the left. Vännäsby after Vännäs is the second largest city and one of the two Tätorte the community.

The village lies on the railway line, which in Vännäs genome of the Stambanan övre Norrland (northern runway ) branches off and leads to Umea. The Umeåbanan called route was opened in 1896 and extended to Umeå 1920 to Holmsund and to the port on the Baltic Sea Umeå. The station Vännäsby was closed down in the 1980s.

Vännäsby is north of the European Route 12 bypassed the blue path that leads to his Swedish section of Umeå Storuman to Tärnaby winter and on into the Norwegian Mo i Rana. Between Vännäsby and Vännäs the national route 92 branches, a cross- connection via Åsele by Dorotea on Inlandsvägen, the European Route 45

History

In Vännäsby the origins of today's Vännäs lie. The town initially called Wendenäs. Between 1816 and 1825 there was built the Vännäs kyrka. The 1967 recently restored church today is a landmark of the place.

After the construction of Nordlandbahn end of the 19th century, the town center shifted to the new settlement, at the location, a few kilometers west railway Transportation Vännäs, the present site Vännäs. The train station at today Vännäsby contrast, received in 1899 the name Spöland after a few miles north on both banks of the Vindelälven nearby small settlements Västra and Östra Spöland. The term Vännäsby in use since 1940.

Today Vännäsby is factually suburb of the community center Vännäs. In Vännäsby is due to the favorable transport a larger industrial park.