Sundsvall
Sundsvall | |
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 Top:Panorama view of downtown Sundsvall, Stenstaden and South Stadsberget, 2nd left:Mid Sweden University (Mittuniversitetet), 2nd right:Court of Appeal for Lower Norrland in Bunsouska Pond, 3rd left:North Gate Arena and Gustav Adolf Church, 3rd right:Sundsvall Theater, Bottom:Kulturmagasinet, Sundsvall Museum and Library | |
  Sundsvall Show map of Västernorrland  Sundsvall Show map of Sweden | |
| Coordinates: 62°24′N 17°19′E / 62.400°N 17.317°E / 62.400; 17.317Coordinates: 62°24′N 17°19′E / 62.400°N 17.317°E / 62.400; 17.317 | |
| Country | Sweden |
| Province | Medelpad |
| County | Västernorrland County |
| Municipality | Sundsvall Municipality |
| Area [1] | |
| • City | 27.46 km2 (10.60 sq mi) |
| Population (31 December 2010)[1] | |
| • City | 51,354 |
| • Density | 1,847/km2 (4,780/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 97,755 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Sundsvall (Swedish pronunciation: [²sɵnːsval] (
listen)) is a city and the seat of Sundsvall Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden. It has a population of 51,354 as of 2010; more than 95,000 live in the municipal area.
Contents
1 History
2 Demography
3 Culture
4 Transport
5 Sport
6 Notable people
7 Gallery
8 Climate
9 References
10 External links
History
Sundsvall circa 1700, in Suecia antiqua et hodierna.
The town was chartered in 1621, and a first urban plan for Sundsvall was probably created by Olof Bure in 1642, less likely in 1623.[2] It has a port by the Gulf of Bothnia, and is located 395 km north of Stockholm. The city has burned down and been rebuilt four times.[3] The first time, in 1721, it was set on fire by the Russian army during the Russian Pillage of 1719-1721.
The city was burnt on 25 June 1888[4]
According to one historian,[who?] Swedish industrialism started in Sundsvall when the Tunadal sawmill bought a steam-engine driven saw in 1849. In the early 20th century Sundsvall was an even greater centre of forestry industry in Sweden than it is today.
The first large Swedish strike was the "Sundsvall strike" in 1879.[5] The industrial heritage makes social democrat and socialist sympathies more prevalent in the Sundsvall region than in Sweden as a whole.
In 1888 on the 25 June, strong wind and dry conditions contributed to two city fires in Sweden on the same day. On this day both Umeå and Sundsvall caught fire.[4] The Sundsvall fire was the largest in Sweden's history. It is presumed that the fire was caused by a spark from a steamship. After the fire, and unlike Umeå, the decision was to rebuild using stone. Sundsvall's centre was later nicknamed Stenstaden (the stone city). One advantage of the new construction was that within three years the town was arguing that it should be allowed reduced insurance as new rules had been brought in that applied to wooden towns. One disadvantage was that after the fire only the better off could afford to live in the centre.[6]
Today Sundsvall is not only dominated by the pulp and paper industry, and the aluminium production but there are also banks, insurance companies, telecommunications administration and a number of large public data-processing centres such as the national social insurance board. The main campus of the newly established Mid Sweden University (Mittuniversitetet) is also located in the city. The university is a collaboration between Östersund, Sundsvall and Härnösand.
Storgatan, the famous main street in Sundsvall in the heart of Stenstaden ("The stone city")
Demography
Culture
During 1987-2013, there was a summer music festival called Gatufesten. Starting in 2014 there´s a new one called Hamnyran. There are two theatres and various musical venues. There is also a small guitar festival and a larger heavy metal festival every autumn called Nordfest.[7] Sundsvall is also home to the unique festival Musikschlaget,[8] which is a song contest for groups around Sweden with disabilities.
Transport
Its airport is Sundsvall-Timrå Airport, also called Midlanda.
Sport
Bandy field
Alnö IF, association football
GIF Sundsvall, association football
IF Sundsvall Hockey, ice hockey
IFK Sundsvall, association football
Sundsvalls DFF, association football
Kovlands IF, multi-sport alliance club
Kovlands Ishockeyförening, ice hockey
Selånger SK, multi-sport alliance club
Selånger FK, association football
Selånger SK Bandy, bandy
Sidsjö-Böle IF, association football
Sund IF, association football
Sundsvall Dragons, basketball
Sundsvall Flames, American football
Notable people
Garmarna, folk band
The Same, punk band
Sigrid Hjertén (1885-1948), painter
Harry Ahlin (1900-1969), actor
Per Arne Collinder (1890-1975), astronomer (born in Sundsvall)
Gina Dirawi (1990-), television presenter, host of Melodifestivalen 2012 and 2013
Elin Ek (1976-), TV and radio personality (as Grynet), singer
Fredrik Ericsson (1975 - 2010), extreme skier
Jessica Falk (1973-), singer-songwriter and musician
Anders Abraham Grafström (1790-1870), poet
Anders Graneheim (1962-), bodybuilder
Stan Hasselgård (1922-1948), musician
Bengt Lindström (1925-2008), artist
Kjell Lönnå (1936-), musician
Fredrik Modin (1974-), ice hockey player
Max Magnus Norman (1973-), artist
Erik Ringmar (1960-), political scientist and author
Helen Sjöholm (1970-), singer, actress and musical theater performer
Carl Strandlund (1899–1974), Swedish-American inventor and entrepreneur
Henrik Zetterberg (1980-), ice hockey player
Yohio (1995-), singer and guitarist
Kevin Walker (1989-) football player for Djurgårdens IF and winner of Idol 2013
Charlotte Kalla (1987-) cross-country skier
Carl-Herman Tillhagen (1906~2002), Swedish folklorist
Emil Forsberg (1991-), Swedish footballer
Elias Pettersson (1998-), ice hockey player/ Son of God
Gallery
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| Sundsvall viewed from above | Sundsvall City Centre | Gustav Adolfskyrkan |
Climate
Sundsvall has a climate which is on the border between subarctic and cold continental, leaning towards the latter in recent years. Temperatures are made significantly milder and regulated by the influence from the Gulf Stream. The weather station is located 20 kilometres (12 mi) to the north and somewhat further inland, which renders that Sundsvall's urban centre is likely milder in terms of low temperatures by some degree.
| Climate data for Sundsvall Airport (2002-2015); extremes since 1943; precipitation & sunshine[9]1961-1990 | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 11.0 (51.8) | 13.8 (56.8) | 15.2 (59.4) | 21.9 (71.4) | 27.4 (81.3) | 31.0 (87.8) | 33.0 (91.4) | 31.3 (88.3) | 27.2 (81.0) | 20.1 (68.2) | 14.0 (57.2) | 10.5 (50.9) | 33.0 (91.4) |
| Average high °C (°F) | −2.5 (27.5) | −1.4 (29.5) | 3.2 (37.8) | 8.5 (47.3) | 13.9 (57.0) | 18.3 (64.9) | 21.5 (70.7) | 20.0 (68.0) | 15.4 (59.7) | 8.2 (46.8) | 2.5 (36.5) | −0.8 (30.6) | 8.0 (46.4) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −6.6 (20.1) | −5.8 (21.6) | −1.5 (29.3) | 3.5 (38.3) | 8.6 (47.5) | 12.8 (55.0) | 16.6 (61.9) | 15.4 (59.7) | 10.7 (51.3) | 4.3 (39.7) | −0.4 (31.3) | −4.4 (24.1) | 4.4 (39.9) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −10.6 (12.9) | −10.2 (13.6) | −6.3 (20.7) | −1.5 (29.3) | 3.3 (37.9) | 7.4 (45.3) | 11.8 (53.2) | 10.8 (51.4) | 6.0 (42.8) | 0.4 (32.7) | −3.4 (25.9) | −8.1 (17.4) | −0.1 (31.8) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −35.5 (−31.9) | −34.8 (−30.6) | −34.2 (−29.6) | −20.0 (−4.0) | −8.2 (17.2) | −2.0 (28.4) | 1.9 (35.4) | −0.6 (30.9) | −7.7 (18.1) | −15.2 (4.6) | −22.1 (−7.8) | −36.6 (−33.9) | −36.6 (−33.9) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 38.3 (1.51) | 28.1 (1.11) | 29.5 (1.16) | 31.9 (1.26) | 34.6 (1.36) | 40.7 (1.60) | 58.0 (2.28) | 64.1 (2.52) | 63.8 (2.51) | 51.8 (2.04) | 53.1 (2.09) | 46.1 (1.81) | 539.3 (21.23) |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 43 | 81 | 135 | 185 | 259 | 287 | 267 | 215 | 142 | 98 | 57 | 34 | 1,803 |
| Source #1: SMHI precipitation average 1961-1990[10] | |||||||||||||
| Source #2: SMHI climate data 2002-2015[11] | |||||||||||||
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Because of the availability of snow, the Sundsvall Regional Hospital, covering 190 000m2,[13] is cooled down year-round by stored snow, bringing down energy consumption for hospital cooling by 90%.[13][14]
References
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^ Nils Ahlberg, Stadsgrundningar och planförändringar : Svensk stadsplanering 1521–1721 Archived 2011-08-14 at the Wayback Machine, avhandling vid Institutionen för landskapsplanering Ultuna och Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, Stockholms universitet 2005, s. 550
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-05-03. Retrieved 2009-03-02.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
^ ab Fire of 1888 Archived 2014-05-29 at the Wayback Machine, Sunsvall.se, retrieved 28 May 2014
^ http://www.popularhistoria.se/o.o.i.s?id=43&vid=612[permanent dead link]
^ Rohland, Eleonora (1 February 2011). "From Wood to Stone: The Risk Management of Swiss Re in The Sundsvall Fire 1888". Environment and History. 17 (1): 153–169. doi:10.3197/096734011X12922359173096. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
^ "Nordfest". www.nordfest.se. Archived from the original on 2017-08-20. Retrieved 2017-08-20.
^ "www.musikschlaget.se". www.musikschlaget.se. Archived from the original on 2017-09-11. Retrieved 2017-08-20.
^ "NOAA WMO Normals 1691-1990". National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration].
^ "SMHI precipitation average 1961-1990" (in Swedish). Swedish Metereological and Hydrological Institute (Sundsvalls flygplats code 12 731). Archived from the original on 2018-05-03.
^ "SMHI climate data 2002-2015" (in Swedish). SMHI. April 11, 2016. Archived from the original on February 20, 2015.
^ "NOAA WMO Normals 1691-1990". National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration].
^ ab "Snow cooling in Sundsvall". http://www.lvn.se/. Västernorrland County Council. 2011-01-24. Archived from the original on 2015-11-26. External link in|website=(help)
^ Skogsberg, Kjell (2002). "The Sundsvall Regional Hospital snow cooling plant—results from the first year of operation". Cold Regions Science and Technology. 34 (2): 135–142. doi:10.1016/S0165-232X(01)00067-2. ISSN 0165-232X.
External links
 | Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sundsvall. |
 | Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Sundsvall. |
Sundsvall - Official site
(in Swedish) article Sundsvall from Nordisk Familjebok (1918)
(in Swedish) sundsvallturism.com - Sundsvalls tourist information bureau.
(in English) Sundsvalltown.se - The alternative guide to Sundsvall.
(in Swedish) sundsvallsbilder.com - Blog with photos from Sundsvall.
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