Sävedalen is a

district A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...

("kommundel") located in

Partille Municipality Partille Municipality () is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in Partille, which constitutes a part of the contiguously built-up Gothenburg urban area. The municipality is by area one of the smalle ...

. At west it borders to

Gothenburg Municipality Gothenburg Municipality ( or ) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Gothenburg. When the first Swedish local government acts were implemented in 1863 the City of Gothenburg, founde ...

and is a

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Gothenburg Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ...

. The ice-cream company '' Triumf Glass'' was founded and have their headquarters in Sävedalen.

History

Earlier the village Ugglum was located here. But when the

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

was opened in 1917, it changed name to ''Sävedalen'' for avoiding confusion with

Ucklum Ucklum is a locality situated in Stenungsund Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders ...

Famous people

The comedian and tv-personality

Petra Mede Petra Maria Mede (; born 7 March 1970) is a Swedish comedian, dancer, actress and television presenter. Mede is known for her several roles in comic shows and as a television presenter, and is best known outside of Sweden for hosting the Eurovis ...

grew up in Sävedalen.Petra Mede leder Eurovision, www.partilletidning.se
/ref> The Wrestler Johan Euren is a native of Savedalen

References and sources

External links

Eniro MapsInformation about Sävedalen on Wikimedia Commons
{{DEFAULTSORT:Savedalen Populated places in Västra Götaland County