Getå is a minor locality in

Norrköping Municipality Norrköping Municipality () is a municipality in Östergötland County in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Norrköping, with some 90,000 inhabitants. It is the largest municipality in Östergötland. By the time of the local g ...

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. It had a population of 95 in 2020. Getå is located on the shore of

Bråviken Bråviken is a bay of the Baltic Sea that is located near Norrköping in Östergötland, Sweden. It is an example of a fjard A fjard (, ) is a large open space of water between groups of islands or mainland in archipelagos. Fjards can be found ...

. In Getå there is a small hotel that for many years was run by the Jameson family. The so-called Getå Gorge is a nature conservation area where there are also

brook trout The brook trout (''Salvelinus fontinalis'') is a species of freshwater fish in the char genus ''Salvelinus'' of the salmon family Salmonidae native to Eastern North America in the United States and Canada. Two ecological forms of brook trout h ...

that are protected. At the end of the 1800s,

Robert Nobel Robert Hjalmar Nobel ( , ; 4 August 1829 – 7 August 1896) was a Swedish businessman, industrialist and investor. He was the founder of Branobel, and a pioneer in the Russian oil industry. Biography Robert Nobel was born in Maria Magdalena pa ...

, brother of

Alfred Nobel Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( ; ; 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer, and businessman. He is known for inventing dynamite, as well as having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prizes. He also m ...

, was living here. He built a house and had roads built in the area. At Getå Turisthotell there is a memorial room dedicated to him. On 1 October 1915, the railway stop Getå was opened, the bay was closed on 28 May 1967. In 1920, the railway stop ''Getå Tourist Station'' was opened, which, after a name change on 10 June 1953 to ''Bråviksstrand'', was closed down on 12 May 1968.

History

On 1 October 1915, the railway stop Getå was opened on 1 October 1918 Getå was the site of the worst train accident in Swedish railroad history, killing at least 42 people. Many passengers were burned alive as unreinforced wooden cars burned, killing many who had survived the actual crash but were trapped in the wreckage. In 1920, the railway stop ''Getå Tourist Station'' was opened, which, after a name change on 10 June 1953 to ''Bråviksstrand'', was closed down on 12 May 1968.the bay was closed on 28 May 1967

References

Populated places in Östergötland County {{Östergötland-geo-stub