Mellansel

Mellansel
Mellansel Railway Station
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Coordinates: 63°26′N 18°19′E
Federation	European Union
State	Sweden
County	Västernorrland County
Municipality	Örnsköldsvik Municipality
Area [1]
• Total	2.33 km^2 (0.90 sq mi)
Population  (31 December 2018)[1]
• Total	782
• Density	335/km^2 (870/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Mellansel (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈmɛ̂lːanˌseːl])[2] is a locality situated in Örnsköldsvik Municipality, Västernorrland County, Sweden with 827 inhabitants in 2010.[1]

History

Mellansel was first discovered by humans in 300 BC however Mellansel did not become a permanent settlement until the middle ages. Mellansel was first mentioned in books in the year 1523.[3]

Transportation

Mellansel became a railway junction when the railway line from Mellansel to Örnsköldsvik was opened to traffic on 1 November 1892. Since the night train traffic has been transferred to the Bothnia Line, no passenger trains have been running through Mellansel station since 2012.

Mellansel Airport (ICAO-code ESUI) is located 4 kilometers south of Mellansel. It opened on 1 July 1973 and no commercial flights operate of it as of 2020.

Industry

The largest industry in Mellansel is Bosch Rexroth AB, which manufactures hydraulic drive systems.

Society

There is a college and an outdoor swimming pool in the area. Some of the buildings on the college campus were named after Mellansel's cultural history.

Population

In recent years, Mellansel has become a Population declining area (Swedish: Avfolkningsbygd).

Historical population in 5-year intervals, 1960–Present

Year	Pop.	±%
1960	745	—
1965	716	−3.9%
1970	1,323	+84.8%
1975	1,328	+0.4%
1980	1,353	+1.9%
1990	1,178	−12.9%
1995	1,038	−11.9%
2000	900	−13.3%
2005	823	−8.6%
2010	827	+0.5%
2015	825	−0.2%
2018	782	−5.2%
source[4]		—

Gallery

• Town And Train Station
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• Bosch Rexroth Factory
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References

1. "Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km^2 2005 och 2010" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 14 December 2011. Archived from the original on 27 January 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
2. Jöran Sahlgren; Gösta Bergman (1979). Svenska ortnamn med uttalsuppgifter (in Swedish). p. 17.
3. "Mellansels folkhögskola | Norrländsk natur + studiero = förutsättningar för goda studieresultat och trivsel!" (in Swedish). Mellansel College. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
4. "Landareal per tätort, folkmängd och invånare per kvadratkilometer. Vart femte år 1960 - 2016". Statistiska centralbyrån. Archived from the original on 13 June 2017. Retrieved 18 May 2017.