Dorotea Municipality

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**Dorotea Municipality (*Kommun*)**
Dorotea municipality and seat in Sweden Map outlining the municipalities of Sweden	Coat of arms
	Municipal facts
	Seat	Dorotea
	64° 16′ N 16° 24′ E
	County	Västerbotten County
	Province	Swedish Lapland
	Area Rank	2,795 km² 31st of 290
	Population Rank (2005)	3,156 288th of 290
	Population density	1.1/km²

Dorotea Municipality is a Swedish municipality in Västerbotten County, in northern Sweden, where the town Dorotea is seated with 1,600 inhabitants at an altitude of 386 meters.

Dorotea is the southern outpost of the Scandinavian mountain range.

1 History
2 Geography
3 Industry
4 External link

[edit] History

Dorotea has been populated since 1713, when the first settler moved to a town later known as Bergvatten (Mountainwater). This village expanded to 41 houses by the end of the century, and the residents where anxious to build a chapel. The seat was chosen to be Bergvatten.

On May 21, 1799 the village of Bergvattnet was renamed Dorotea, in honour of Queen Frederica Dorothea Wilhelmina of Sweden.

The church unfortunately burnt down in 1932. A new church was inaugurated in 1934. Designed by Evert Milles, it houses some notable objects, such as a sculpture by his brother the famous Carl Milles.

[edit] Geography

Dorotea is one of the least populated municipalities in Sweden. It also offers one of the lowest costs of living.

[edit] Industry

Amongst the Dorotea industries is one of the biggest caravan manufacturer in Skandinavia, Polarvagnen, now known as Solifer-Polar as the two companies merged. Other known industries and companies are Dorocell, Svenska Tält and S-Karosser.

In more recent years, several IT-companies have also moved there. Early 2000 the company Spray was located there but then moved to Sollefteå. The large house which held the support and other personnel was later taken over by Datakompisen.