Rättvik Municipality (''Rättviks kommun'') is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in
Dalarna County
Dalarna County ( sv, Dalarnas län) is a county or '' län'' in central Sweden (Svealand). It borders on the counties of Uppsala, Jämtland, Gävleborg, Västmanland, Örebro and Värmland. It also borders on the Norwegian counties of Hedmark ...
in central
Sweden
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. Its seat is located in the town of
Rättvik
Rättvik is a locality on the eastern shore of the lake Siljan and the seat of Rättvik Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden, with 4,686 inhabitants in 2010. Its bandy club IFK Rättvik has reached the highest division Elitserien and has bu ...
.
In 1963 the municipality was reunited with ''Boda'', which had been detached from it in 1875, and in 1974 ''Ore'' was added, thus forming the present municipality.
Geography
Rättvik municipality is situated in the middle of
Sweden
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in the province of
Dalarna
Dalarna () is a '' landskap'' (historical province) in central Sweden. English exonyms for it are Dalecarlia () and the Dales.
Dalarna adjoins Härjedalen, Hälsingland, Gästrikland, Västmanland and Värmland
Värmland () also known a ...
, in between the three Swedish cities
Borlänge
Borlänge is a locality in Dalarna County, Sweden with 44,898 inhabitants as of 2020. It is the seat of the Borlänge Municipality with a total population of 51,604 inhabitants as of 2017.
History
Originally Borlänge was the name of a tin ...
,
Falun
Falun () is a city and the seat of Falun Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 37,291 inhabitants in 2010. It is also the capital of Dalarna County. Falun forms, together with Borlänge, a metropolitan area with just over 100,000 inhabita ...
and
Mora
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People
* Mora (surname)
Places Sweden
* Mora, Säter, Sweden
* Mora, Sweden, the seat of Mora Municipality
* Mora Municipality, Sweden
United States
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* M ...
.
It is located in a traditional forest and agriculture environment, which is how most of Sweden looked in the 19th century and earlier. Nowadays, its culture also attracts a significant number of tourists.
The area near Rättvik municipality has the highest population of
brown bear
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s in Sweden.
Town
The contiguous urban area, or
locality
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of Rättvik lies on
Lake Siljan
Siljan, in Dalarna in central Sweden, is Sweden's seventh largest lake. The cumulative area of Siljan and the adjacent, smaller lakes Orsasjön and Insjön is . Siljan reaches a maximum depth of , and its surface is situated above sea level. Th ...
, and had 4,588 inhabitants in 2005;
it is widely known for its
old tradition of folkmusic and the beauty of the surroundings close to Lake Siljan; it is included on many tours of Sweden as an example of a traditional Swedish and Scandinavian way of living.
Its culture and landscape are by some regarded as being genuinely Swedish as it gets. For instance, Rättvik still has its
picturesque
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old church located by the water, where it is surrounded by old "church stables" where the church visitors used to leave their horses.
Every year the
folk music
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festival "Music at Siljan" is held in Rättvik, by the shores of Siljan.
The annual summer opera festival, the
Dalhalla Opera, takes place 7 km north of the town in an open-air theatre located in a former limestone quarry.
The
bandy
Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...
club
IFK Rättvik
Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Rättvik, commonly known as IFK Rättvik, is a sports club in Rättvik, Sweden. The club colours are white and blue, like for most Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna, IFK clubs. The club was founded in 1906 and is playing ...
has an indoor arena.
Riksdag
The Riksdag (, ; also sv, riksdagen or ''Sveriges riksdag'' ) is the legislature and the supreme decision-making body of Sweden. Since 1971, the Riksdag has been a unicameral legislature with 349 members (), elected proportionally and se ...
elections
Resources
*
Nationalencyklopedin
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External links
Rättvik Municipality– Official site
Dalecarlia Horses- The Original
Dalhalla Opera- Official site
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Municipalities of Dalarna County