Ocr bana upplands väsby
Upplands Väsby kommuns fritidsstrateg Johanna Dermer visar hur man tar sig an hindren i Väsbys nya OCR-bana i Runby.
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The municipality has a long history with clear traces of settlements from the pre-Christian times in several places. The first traces of human culture have been found during excavations of Hammarby ridge, about meters south of the current Glädjen junction, where the excavation of the burial ground Ekebo found a bronze axe from around to BC. Upplands Väsby has a low topography and the people lived by fishing, seal and waterfowl hunting.
They include Arabic coins found at Great Wäsby castle grounds. At Runsa and Skavsta's prehistoric fortifications, known as hill forts. Traces of aboriginal burial grounds are found in many places in the form of mounds, stone circles, standing stones, or minor bumps. The graves are sometimes the shape of a ship, as at Runsa, one of Sweden's most famous stone circles. It is 56 meters from the bow and stern and was made in AD.
Other cemeteries in the form of large burial mounds exist near Löwenströmska Hospital and Runby, called Zamores Hill after the timpanist Antonin Zamore, a North African who came to Sweden in the late s and who lived on the Runby Lower farm, now called the homestead. The largest cemetery is the Great Wäsby Castle ättebacke with around burial mounds. In the early s, Upplands Väsby was a small station community. Around the station, a society grew.
Anton Tamm had bought up all the land that the present society is built on. The company manufactured brass and copper, including Optimus products. Over the years, the company changed its name many times, but was popularly always called Messingen. They were later Swedish Metal Works and Granges-Weda and offered die casting and plastic manufacturing. The municipality now has the character of a modern suburban town, situated between Stockholm and Uppsala.
The distance to the city centre of Stockholm is twenty-five kilometers and to the centre of Uppsala forty-five km. Travel to Stockholm Central Station takes 27 minutes 10 stations by commuter train. Travel time to Arlanda Airport is seven minutes by local train, which also connects Upplands Väsby with Uppsala. Jersild , and Alexander Ahndoril. Parts of the industry that was in the area near the railway station can now be seen south of the neighborhood Messingen where Optimus established himself in Optimus factory in Upplands Väsby was closed in when production was moved to Småland the company still exists today under the name Optimus International AB.
Now manufactures mainly camping. In the former industrial premises is now run new activities, including Upplands Väsby art gallery. Today, the original buildings demolished to make way for new housing and a new school, Väsby new gymnasium, which was completed before the start of school in August If you follow the road east from Central Station can be reached after a few hundred meters including Culture Vega, Väsby School and after another short stretch Väsby Centre including a shopping mall, medical center, and municipal offices.
Väsby centrum was opened in Several extensions and renovations have been made over the years and in recent years, major changes implemented. The shopping mall contains a variety of stores with a wide selection of apparel, electronics, cosmetics, health foods, books, flowers, jewelry, and grocery stores and restaurants. From December the plant was operated center of the Franco-Dutch property company Unibail-Rodamco, until June , when it was sold to the British family firm Grosvenor in a business where other plants were included.
There are more than 3, students spread over fourteen elementary schools and one secondary school. Half the primary schools are communal. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk.
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