Valbo
Encyclopedia
Valbo is a locality
situated in Gävle Municipality
, Gävleborg County
, Sweden
with 6,911 inhabitants in 2005. It is situated south-west of Gävle
itself and could be considered a suburb of the city.
Valbo is known for the large shopping mall Valbo köpcentrum and for being the birthplace for the Nobel Prize
laureate The (Theodor) Svedberg
.
within the Church of Sweden
, which has 11,600 members in the town and surrounding area in the eastern part of Gävle Municipality
.
Häcklingeskolan (Häcklinge School) was closed in 2005 and the students were transferred to the Sofiedal school
Urban areas in Sweden
Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality. There are 1,940 localities in Sweden . They could be compared with census-designated places in the United States.A tätort in Sweden has a minimum of...
situated in Gävle Municipality
Gävle Municipality
Gävle Municipality is a municipality in east central Sweden where the City Gävle is the municipal seat.Geographically the municipality is situated north of the mouth of the river Dalälven and is the southernmost municipality of the historical land of Norrland.The present municipality was created...
, Gävleborg County
Gävleborg County
Gävleborg County is a county or län on the Baltic Sea coast of Sweden. It borders to the counties of Uppsala, Västmanland, Dalarna, Jämtland and Västernorrland. The capital is Gävle.- Administration :...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
with 6,911 inhabitants in 2005. It is situated south-west of Gävle
Gävle
Gävle is a city in Sweden, the seat of Gävle Municipality and the capital of Gävleborg County. It had 71,033 inhabitants in 12/31 2010. It is the oldest city in the historical Norrland , having received its charter in 1446 from Christopher of Bavaria.-History:It is believed that the name Gävle...
itself and could be considered a suburb of the city.
Valbo is known for the large shopping mall Valbo köpcentrum and for being the birthplace for the Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
laureate The (Theodor) Svedberg
Theodor Svedberg
Theodor H. E. Svedberg was a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate, active at Uppsala University. His work with colloids supported the theories of Brownian motion put forward by Einstein and the Polish geophysicist Marian Smoluchowski...
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Valbo parish
Valbo is also a parishParish
A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...
within the Church of Sweden
Church of Sweden
The Church of Sweden is the largest Christian church in Sweden. The church professes the Lutheran faith and is a member of the Porvoo Communion. With 6,589,769 baptized members, it is the largest Lutheran church in the world, although combined, there are more Lutherans in the member churches of...
, which has 11,600 members in the town and surrounding area in the eastern part of Gävle Municipality
Gävle Municipality
Gävle Municipality is a municipality in east central Sweden where the City Gävle is the municipal seat.Geographically the municipality is situated north of the mouth of the river Dalälven and is the southernmost municipality of the historical land of Norrland.The present municipality was created...
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Education
- Sofiedalskolan (Sofiedal School) Is an upper (senior) level of compulsory school and it's located in the central parts of Valbo and it has around 550 students, The school also have an intermediate level and also the first three years of compulsory school for students.
- Ludvigsbergsskolan (Ludvigsberg School) is located in the central parts of Valbo and it has the first three years of compulsory school for students and also an intermediate level. The school has around 400 students.
- Alborga skola (Alborga School) is located in the north of Valbo and it has the first three years of compulsory school for students with about 100 students
Häcklingeskolan (Häcklinge School) was closed in 2005 and the students were transferred to the Sofiedal school
Sports
The following sports clubs are located in Valbo:- Valbo FFValbo FFValbo FF is a Swedish football club located in Valbo.-Background:Valbo FF currently plays in Division 4 Gestrikland which is the sixth tier of Swedish football. They play their home matches at the Åbyvallen in Valbo....
- Valbo AIF
- Valbo IBF