Gammelstad Church Town

UNESCO World Heritage Site
Church Village of Gammelstad, Luleå
Name as inscribed on the World Heritage List

Type	Cultural
Criteria	ii, iv, v
Reference	762
UNESCO region	Europe and North America
Inscription history
Inscription	1996 (20th Session)

Gammelstad Church Town (Swedish: Gammelstads kyrkstad) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site situated in Gammelstaden near the city of Luleå, Sweden, at the northern end of the Gulf of Bothnia. It is the best preserved example of a type of town that was once widespread throughout northern Scandinavia. As Church Village of Gammelstad, Luleå, it was listed as a World Heritage Site in 1996.

The town is located about 10 kilometers upstreams Lule River. At its centre is the 15th-century Nederluleå Church surrounded by 424 wood-built houses. The houses were only used on Sundays and during religious festivals to accommodate worshippers from the surrounding countryside who could not return home the same day because of the distance and difficult travelling conditions.

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World Heritage Sites in Sweden

For official site names, see each article or the List of World Heritage Sites in Sweden.

East	Birka and Hovgården Engelsberg Ironworks Royal Domain of Drottningholm Skogskyrkogården

South	Agricultural Landscape of Stora Alvaret (Southern Öland) Hanseatic Town of Visby Naval Port of Karlskrona Rock Carvings in Tanum Varberg Radio Station

North	Church Village of Gammelstad, Luleå Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland The High Coast/Kvarken Archipelago¹ (High Coast) Laponian Area Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain, Falun Struve Geodetic Arc²

¹ Shared with Finland ² Shared with nine other countries

Coordinates: 65°38′45″N 22°01′45″E / 65.64583°N 22.02917°E / 65.64583; 22.02917

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