Haga is a residential area in

Umeå Umeå ( , , , locally ; South Westrobothnian: ;). fi, Uumaja; sju, Ubmeje; sma, Upmeje; se, Ubmi) is a city in northeast Sweden. It is the seat of Umeå Municipality and the capital of Västerbotten County. Situated on the Ume River, U ...

, Sweden, immediately north of the centre and the railroad passing Umeå,

History

Haga is one of the oldest residential areas in Umeå, established in the late 19th century. From being an area sparsely populated by a few farmers, the relocation of the

Västerbotten Regiment The Västerbotten Regiment ( sv, Västerbottens regemente), designations I 19, I XIX, I 20 and I 20/Fo 61, was a Swedish Army infantry regiment that traced its origins back to the 16th century. The regiment's soldiers were originally recruited fr ...

to Umeå (1893), and the first link to the national railroad network (1896), raised the need for central housing. Railroad workers and

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s began to move into what then was perceived as Umeå's first suburb. As Umeå has grown, the 21st century Haga is one of the most central districts, with a variety of (mostly small)

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town house A townhouse, townhome, town house, or town home, is a type of terraced housing. A modern townhouse is often one with a small footprint on multiple floors. In a different British usage, the term originally referred to any type of city residence ...

s, a few

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s, and several parks. Defined by a majority of buildings from the 1940s and 1950s, the district still has a small town aura, not so common in later built areas of Umeå.

Sports facilities

The

soccer stadium Soccer-specific stadium is a term used mainly in the United States and Canada to refer to a sports stadium either purpose-built or fundamentally redesigned for soccer and whose primary function is to host soccer matches, as opposed to a multi-p ...

Gammliavallen Gammliavallen, currently known as Umeå Energi Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in Umeå, Sweden. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Umeå IK, Umeå FC Umeå FC is a Swedish pr ...

built 1925 has since been rebuilt and is now accompanied by a pair of

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s – for archery,

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s, floorball,

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wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...

and more – and a

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Hagamannen

A series of assaults on women took place in Haga in the late 1990s. The perpetrator became known as

Hagamannen Kurt Niklas Lindgren (born June 26, 1972, in Sörmjöle, Umeå Municipality), known in the media prior to his arrest as Hagamannen ("The Haga Man"), is a convicted Swedish serial rapist. Lindgren was convicted of nine counts of sexual assault i ...

References

External links

Haga
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