Bollnas

Bollnas is a Swedish locality and the seat of Bollnas Municipality, in Gavleborg County, Sweden. It had 26,937 inhabitants in 2017. The first recording of Bollnas in writing is from 1312 while a vicar named Ingemund noted it as Baldenaes, which means "the massive isthmus," regarding the isthmus into a nearby lake. Before becoming referred to as Bollnäs, its call was Bro By. Bollnas has a station along the Northern Railline, which it changed into connected to in 1878.

The town have become a first-rate base for in addition northern expansion of the railroad. In 1884, it became a number one renovation and restore workshop for the railroad. The railroad become the biggest business enterprise in Bollnäs for the greater a part of the 20th century, till the Nineties whilst it changed into closed because of its area being not most reliable. Bollnas became a town in 1942, in recent times an honorary title without administrative significance.Bandy is the locality's most popular recreation. Bollnäs GIF play in the maximum division Elitserien. In 2010, they reached the Swedish very last for the first time since 1956.