Väne-Åsaka is a
locality
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situated in
Trollhättan Municipality
Trollhättan Municipality (, semi-officially ) is a municipalities of Sweden, municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the stad (Sweden), city of Trollhättan.
The municipality was created gradually in 19 ...
,
Västra Götaland County
Västra Götaland County () is a county or '' län'' on the western coast of Sweden.
The county is the second most populous of Sweden's counties and it comprises 49 municipalities (''kommuner''). Its population of 1,616,000 amounts to 17% of S ...
,
Sweden
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with 292 inhabitants in 2010.
It locally known as Åsaka. Väne is name of the old
hundred
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In mathematics
100 is the square of 10 (number), 10 (in scientific notation it is written as 102). The standar ...
, added to the name by authorities in 1885 to tell this place and four other Åsaka in Västra Götaland apart.
History
The church, around which the settlement is situated, has details from the 1100s. The baptismal font is from the Middle Ages.
In the 1950s, Rolf Mellde - an engineer and car designer for Saab - began constructing prototypes for a lightweight roadster racing car in a barn in Väne-Åsaka. This prototype became the Saab Sonett I. After a secretive development period the car was revealed at the Stockholm Bilsalong in 1954.
References
Populated places in Trollhättan Municipality
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