Surte Church

Surte (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈsɵ̂ʈːɛ] ) is a locality situated in Ale Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 5,798 inhabitants in 2010. Surte Church is located in the town. It is located some 15 kilometers north of Gothenburg. Surte became well known for its glass works that started production in 1862 and became one of the major mechanized glass works in Sweden. It was bought by PLM in 1960 and shut down in 1978. In Surte, there was a large landslide in 1950, which killed one person and destroyed 30 houses. More houses had to be removed, causing 450 people to lose their home. It also blocked the river which had frequent ship traffic. Surte was the hometown of Alexander Samuelson. Although he was not the designer, he was the man named on the 1915 design patent for the legendary contour Coca-Cola bottle.The international Grand Master of chess Gideon Ståhlberg, one of the world's strongest players in the 1940s, was born and is buried in Surte. Surte is home to the bandy club Surte BK. They built one of the first indoor bandy arenas in Sweden (and subsequently in the world), which was the first in Götaland.The village Bohus, located 2½ km (1½ mile) north of Surte centre, has grown together with Surte and, in official statistics, is handled as one village.

The siege of Bohus fortress (1678) was a siege by Dano–Norwegian troops during the Scanian War. The siege was endured by the Swedish defenders for weeks before forcing a Dano–Norwegian retreat.

Bohus Fortress (also known as Baahus or Båhus, originally: Bágahús) lies along the old Norwegian–Swedish border in Kungälv, Bohuslän, Sweden, north east from Hisingen where the Göta river splits into two branches (20 km (12 mi) north of Gothenburg). It commands the surrounding area from a cliff 40 m (130 ft) high, with the river forming a natural moat around it.

Mysterna is a locality situated in Göteborg Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 3,418 inhabitants in 2010.

Angered (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈâŋːɛˌreːd] ) is a borough of Gothenburg Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. Angered is the biggest Million Programme area in Gothenburg, and one of the biggest in the country, with 60,000 inhabitants.

Angereds Teater is a theater and actors workshop located at Kulturhuset Blå Stället in the Angered suburb of Gothenburg, Sweden. Angereds Teater is a center of culture for the area, offers plays for both adults and children and hosting a number of plays and other events throughout the year.Angereds Theater was founded in 1978 and was part of Gothenburg City Theatre until 1996. The theatre is part of Sweden's tradition of plays and other events especially for children, with a number of theatre and other artistic groups dedicated to this purpose. The theatre also offers Angereds Teaterskola featuring workshops for children with the aim of giving them an appreciation of the art.Angereds Teater appeared as part of the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Mexico in 2011 as part of latter's programming for children. The theatre company presented "The Butterfly Pilots" (Fjärilspiloterna), a play is a story about loneliness and friendship, sudden falls and happy new beginnings to show that new friends appear when old ones go away.The play was presented at the theatre in Gothenburg for over a year, with previous tours in Egypt and Syria. The play has extravagant scenery and in some parts, the audience can dance. The main performers of the play were Phax Said Cheik Ahamada, who has created a unique technique of breakdancing and Ami Skanberg Dahlstedt, who is known for combining dance styles from around the world into her work.

Skarpe Nord is an ice skating rink in Kungälv. It is the home of IFK Kungälv, Kareby IS, and Kungälvs SK. It is open to the public in the winter, when it is cold and there is ice on the rink.

On 4 March 1961, a mass shooting occurred at Thorild School in central Kungälv, Västra Götaland, Sweden, in which a gunman shot and killed one person, Per Håkan Altvall, and injured six others. It was the first reported school shooting in Sweden and one of the earliest in Europe. The memory of the murdered Per Håkan Altvall is kept alive in Kungälv via a stipend "awarded annually to one or a number of students known for good friendship and social support to students".

Gunnared is the northern part of Angered, in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was formerly one administrative division, but was split into two parts, with Gunnared in the north and Lärjedalen in the south.

Kungälv (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈkɵ̂ŋːɛlv]) is a city and the seat of Kungälv Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It is also a part of Greater Gothenburg Metropolitan Area. It had 22,768 inhabitants in 2010. In 2021, the main Kungälv - Ytterby - Kareby conurbation had a combined population approaching 30,000.

Kungälv Municipality (Kungälvs kommun) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Kungälv. It is the 50th largest municipality in Sweden by population size. The present municipality was formed in 1971 through the amalgamation of the City of Kungälv, the City of Marstrand and territories belonging to four rural municipalities. In 1974 a minor part (situated on the island of Hisingen) was transferred to Gothenburg Municipality.

Kungälv resecentrum is Kungälv's primary bus station, operated by Västtrafik. It serves as the city's main public transit link. The station is located just next to the E6 highway, connecting Kungälv to many other cities.The station underwent a major reconstruction at a cost of 50 million Swedish kronor. Construction started in 2016 and went on for about two years with opening ceremony on April 29, 2018. The 800 m2 station has a two-floor waiting hall, free wifi, and coffee shops.