Sundsvall

{{Infobox settlement

|official_name = Sundsvall

|image_skyline = Sundsvall collage.jpg

|image_caption = 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

|pushpin_map = Sweden Västernorrland#Sweden

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|subdivision_type = Country

|subdivision_name = Sweden

|subdivision_type3 = Municipality

|subdivision_name3 = Sundsvall Municipality

|subdivision_type2 = County

|subdivision_name2 = Västernorrland County

|subdivision_type1 = Province

|subdivision_name1 = Medelpad

|area_footnotes ={{cite web |url=http://www.scb.se/Statistik/MI/MI0810/2010A01/Tatorternami0810tab1_4.xls |title=Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km² 2005 och 2010 |date=14 December 2011 |publisher=Statistics Sweden |language=sv |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127055525/http://www.scb.se/Statistik/MI/MI0810/2010A01/Tatorternami0810tab1_4.xls |archive-date=27 January 2012 |url-status=live |access-date=10 January 2012 }}

|area_total_km2 = 27.46

|population_as_of = 31 December 2020

|population_footnotes ={{cite web |url=https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/statistik-efter-amne/miljo/markanvandning/tatorter/pong/tabell-och-diagram/statistiska-tatorter-2018-befolkning-landareal-befolkningstathet-per-tatort/ |title=Statistiska tätorter 2018, befolkning, landareal, befolkningstäthet per tätort |date=23 March 2021 |publisher=Statistics Sweden |language=sv |access-date=23 March 2021 }}

|population_total = 58,807

|population_urban = 99,825

|population_density_km2 = 1847

|timezone = CET

|utc_offset = +1

|timezone_DST = CEST

|utc_offset_DST = +2

|coordinates = {{coord|62|24|N|17|19|E|region:SE|display=inline,title}}

|website =

}}

Sundsvall ({{IPA|sv|ˈsɵ̂nː(d)sval|lang|Sv-Sundsvall.ogg}}){{cite book|url=https://runeberg.org/ortnamn/0027.html|author1=Jöran Sahlgren|author2=Gösta Bergman|title=Svenska ortnamn med uttalsuppgifter|language=sv|year=1979|page=23}} is a city and the seat of Sundsvall Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden. It has a population of 58,807 as of 2020; more than 95,000 live in the municipal area. It is Sweden's 21st largest city by population. Old town in Sundsvall is known as Stenstan, meaning stone city referencing the stone buildings from the late eighteen hundreds.

History

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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.Nils Ahlberg, [http://diss-epsilon.slu.se:8080/archive/00000930/ Stadsgrundningar och planförändringar : Svensk stadsplanering 1521–1721] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814170705/http://diss-epsilon.slu.se:8080/archive/00000930/ |date=14 August 2011 }}, avhandling vid Institutionen för landskapsplanering Ultuna och Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, Stockholms universitet 2005, s. 550 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.algonet.se/~hogman/slhist_l.htm |title=Lokal historia |access-date=2 March 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090503050159/http://www.algonet.se/~hogman/slhist_l.htm |archive-date=3 May 2009 }} The first time, in 1721, it was set on fire by the Russian army during the Russian Pillage of 1719-1721.

Image:Sundsvall brand 1888.jpg

According to one historian,{{who|date=May 2012}} 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.http://www.popularhistoria.se/o.o.i.s?id=43&vid=612{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=SheriffIsInTown |fix-attempted=yes }} The industrial heritage makes social democrat and socialist sympathies more prevalent in the Sundsvall region than in Sweden as a whole.

In 1888 on 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.[http://minnen.sundsvall.se/handelser/sundsvallbrinner/branden1888.4.5fa0c5b211481decdd980002345.html Fire of 1888] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529052135/http://minnen.sundsvall.se/handelser/sundsvallbrinner/branden1888.4.5fa0c5b211481decdd980002345.html |date=29 May 2014 }}, Sunsvall.se, retrieved 28 May 2014 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.{{cite journal|last=Rohland|first=Eleonora|title=From Wood to Stone: The Risk Management of Swiss Re in The Sundsvall Fire 1888|journal=Environment and History|date=1 February 2011|volume=17|issue=1|pages=153–169|doi=10.3197/096734011X12922359173096|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225026752|access-date=29 May 2014}}

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 Mid Sweden University (Mittuniversitetet) is also located in the city. The university, established in 1993, is a collaboration between Östersund, Sundsvall and Härnösand.

Image:Sundsvall in Sweden Storgatan.jpg

Demography

{{Historical populations

|type =

|footnote = Source: Census data

|1621 | 35

|1721 | 500

|1810 | 1,485

|1850 | 2,837

|1885 | 10,275

|1910 | 16,854

|1930 | 18,007

|1940 | 18,852

|1950 | 25,706

|1960 | 29,419

|1965 | 58,704

|1970 | 64,920

|1974 | 92,483

|2004 | 93,707

|2005 | 94,044

}}

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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nordfest.se|title=Nordfest|website=www.nordfest.se|access-date=20 August 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820161743/http://www.nordfest.se/|archive-date=20 August 2017}} Sundsvall is also home to the unique festival Musikschlaget,{{Cite web|url=http://www.musikschlaget.se/|title=www.musikschlaget.se|website=www.musikschlaget.se|access-date=20 August 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911164102/http://musikschlaget.se/|archive-date=11 September 2017}} which is a song contest for groups around Sweden with disabilities.

Transport

Its airport is Sundsvall-Timrå Airport, also called Midlanda.

Sport

Image:Gärdehov Bandybanan Sundsvall 01.jpg]]

Alnö IF, association football
GIF Sundsvall, association football
IF Sundsvall Hockey, ice hockey
IFK Sundsvall, association football
Sundsvalls AIK (sv), wrestling (https://www.sundsvallsaik.se/)
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
Njurunda MK, Motocross, Enduro and Trial

=Former=

IBK Sundsvall, floorball (1986–2006)

Notable people

Otto Wallin, boxer
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 (1936–2022), musician
Fredrik Modin (1974–), ice hockey player
Max Magnus Norman (1973–), artist
Daniel Ohrn (1993-), ice hockey player
Erik Ringmar (1960–), political scientist and author
Mattias Saari (1994–), ice hockey player
Helen Sjöholm (1970–), singer, actress and musical theater performer
Hanna Glas (1993–), football player
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 and winner of Idol 2013
Charlotte Kalla (1987–), cross-country skier
Carl-Herman Tillhagen (1906–2002), folklorist
Emil Forsberg (1991–), football player
Elias Pettersson (1998–), ice hockey player and 2019 Calder Trophy winner
MyAnna Buring (1979–), actress (born in Sundsvall)
Ursula Wirth (1934–2019), rally driver

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 (Dfc) and cold humid continental (Dfb), 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 {{convert|20|km|mi}} to the north and somewhat further inland near Timrå, which renders that Sundsvall's urban centre is likely milder in terms of low temperatures by some degree.

{{Weather box

|location = Sundsvall Airport (2002–2021); extremes since 1943; sunshine{{Cite FTP | url=ftp://ftp.atdd.noaa.gov/pub/GCOS/WMO-Normals/TABLES/REG_VI/SN/02366.TXT

| server=National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration

|title= NOAA WMO Normals 1691–1990

| language = en}} 1961–1990

|metric first = Yes

|single line = Yes

|Jan record high C = 11.0

|Feb record high C = 13.8

|Mar record high C = 15.2

|Apr record high C = 21.9

|May record high C = 27.4

|Jun record high C = 35.0

|Jul record high C = 33.0

|Aug record high C = 31.3

|Sep record high C = 27.2

|Oct record high C = 21.5

|Nov record high C = 14.0

|Dec record high C = 10.5

|year record high C =

|Jan avg record high C = 5.3

|Feb avg record high C = 6.8

|Mar avg record high C = 11.5

|Apr avg record high C = 16.8

|May avg record high C = 22.2

|Jun avg record high C = 25.7

|Jul avg record high C = 27.8

|Aug avg record high C = 26.0

|Sep avg record high C = 21.1

|Oct avg record high C = 14.5

|Nov avg record high C = 8.8

|Dec avg record high C = 6.7

|year avg record high C = 28.8

|Jan high C = -2.5

|Feb high C = -1.2

|Mar high C = 3.3

|Apr high C = 8.6

|May high C = 14.0

|Jun high C = 18.8

|Jul high C = 21.7

|Aug high C = 20.0

|Sep high C = 15.3

|Oct high C = 8.3

|Nov high C = 2.6

|Dec high C = -0.6

|year high C =

|Jan mean C = -6.5

|Feb mean C = -5.6

|Mar mean C = -1.4

|Apr mean C = 3.5

|May mean C = 8.6

|Jun mean C = 13.5

|Jul mean C = 16.7

|Aug mean C = 15.6

|Sep mean C = 10.8

|Oct mean C = 4.6

|Nov mean C = -0.4

|Dec mean C = -4.1

|year mean C =

|Jan low C = -10.4

|Feb low C = -10.0

|Mar low C = -6.1

|Apr low C = -1.7

|May low C = 3.2

|Jun low C = 8.2

|Jul low C = 11.7

|Aug low C = 10.6

|Sep low C = 6.2

|Oct low C = 0.8

|Nov low C = -3.4

|Dec low C = -7.6

|year low C =

|Jan avg record low C = -22.5

|Feb avg record low C = -21.5

|Mar avg record low C = -17.4

|Apr avg record low C = -7.4

|May avg record low C = -3.0

|Jun avg record low C = 2.3

|Jul avg record low C = 6.1

|Aug avg record low C = 4.5

|Sep avg record low C = -0.1

|Oct avg record low C = -6.4

|Nov avg record low C = -11.5

|Dec avg record low C = -16.8

|year avg record low C = -24.9

|Jan record low C = -35.5

|Feb record low C = -34.8

|Mar record low C = -34.2

|Apr record low C = -20.0

|May record low C = -8.2

|Jun record low C = -2.0

|Jul record low C = 1.9

|Aug record low C = -0.6

|Sep record low C = -7.7

|Oct record low C = -15.2

|Nov record low C = -22.1

|Dec record low C = -36.6

|year record low C = -36.6

|precipitation colour = green

|Jan precipitation mm = 56.1

|Feb precipitation mm = 31.7

|Mar precipitation mm = 30.5

|Apr precipitation mm = 27.6

|May precipitation mm = 43.3

|Jun precipitation mm = 46.9

|Jul precipitation mm = 58.8

|Aug precipitation mm = 72.5

|Sep precipitation mm = 59.6

|Oct precipitation mm = 63.6

|Nov precipitation mm = 51.0

|Dec precipitation mm = 59.1

|year precipitation mm =

|Jan snow depth cm = 38

|Feb snow depth cm = 45

|Mar snow depth cm = 43

|Apr snow depth cm = 23

|May snow depth cm = 0

|Jun snow depth cm = 0

|Jul snow depth cm = 0

|Aug snow depth cm = 0

|Sep snow depth cm = 0

|Oct snow depth cm = 0

|Nov snow depth cm = 9

|Dec snow depth cm = 22

|year snow depth cm = 52

| Jan sun = 43

| Feb sun = 81

| Mar sun = 135

| Apr sun = 185

| May sun = 259

| Jun sun = 287

| Jul sun = 267

| Aug sun = 215

| Sep sun = 142

| Oct sun = 98

| Nov sun = 57

| Dec sun = 34

| year sun =

|source 1 = SMHI Open Data for Sundsvall-Timrå flygplats, temperature{{cite web

| url = https://www.smhi.se/data/meteorologi/ladda-ner-meteorologiska-observationer#param=airTemperatureMinAndMaxOnceEveryDay,stations=all,stationid=127310

|title= SMHI Open Data for Sundsvall-Timrå flygplats, temperature

| publisher = Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute | language = sv|accessdate = 10 May 2022}}

|source 2 = SMHI Open Data for Stordala-Midlanda D, precipitation{{cite web

| url = https://www.smhi.se/data/meteorologi/ladda-ner-meteorologiska-observationer#param=precipitationMonthlySum,stations=all,stationid=127320

|title = SMHI Open Data for Stordala-Midlanda D, precipitation

| publisher = SMHI| language=sv |accessdate = 10 May 2022}}

|date=May 2022}}

References

External links

[http://www.sundsvall.se Sundsvall] – Official site
{{in lang|sv}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20051221182834/http://runeberg.org/nfcg/0404.html article Sundsvall] from Nordisk Familjebok (1918)
{{in lang|sv}} [http://www.sundsvallturism.com sundsvallturism.com] – Sundsvalls tourist information bureau.
{{in lang|en}} [http://www.sundsvalltown.se Sundsvalltown.se] – The alternative guide to Sundsvall.
{{in lang|sv}} [http://www.sundsvallsbilder.com sundsvallsbilder.com] – Blog with photos from Sundsvall.