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32-657: Geographically the city is situated by the outlet of the small rivulet Säveån into lake Mjörn . Transportation links are provided by the western main line railway ( Västra stambanan ) between Stockholm and Gothenburg , and by motorway through the European route E20 . Next to Alingsås you can also find a small village called Sollebrunn . Alingsås was founded as inhabitants from the city Nya Lödöse were made homeless as Danish troops burnt it down. Gustavus Adolphus granted Alingsås its Royal Charter in 1619, which makes it older than Västra Götaland's largest city Gothenburg (which

64-466: A few different cultural events throughout the year. In October, Lights in Alingsås is held for one month; 6 European lighting designers get to light up selected sections of the city as they please. To help them, they get about 65 international students of architecture, and together they have one week to create the vision of the lightning designers, who act as workshop leaders. The public can then either walk

96-602: A lighting design concept on a real project. Some universities have these workshops in their curriculum. The Professional Lighting Designers' Association stages the Light Focus conference once a year, usually in conjunction with a major lighting fair event, e.g. Light+Building in Frankfurt/D or Euroluce in Milan/I. The sessions cover topics of interest and relevance to all those involved in architectural lighting design and bring to light

128-626: A voluntary federation of lighting designers and consultants on an international scale, aiming to enhance the profession's standing and promote its recognition. The Professional Lighting Designers' Association PLDA was founded as the European Lighting Designers' Association ELDA+ in 1994 in Frankfurt , Germany, by a group of prominent individuals including: Voting members are Fellow members, Professional members and Associate members. Fellow members are deemed to have excelled in contributing to

160-582: Is 16 km long and 7 km wide. This makes it the second largest lake in Västergötland that lies entirely within the landscape (after Unden). The lake is 58 m above sea level. There are around 60 named islands in Mjörn. Alingsås and Västra Bodarna lie on the lake's eastern shore and Sjövik and Björboholm on the western shore. The lake is not fully regulated, so the water level can vary quite considerably. Its ice and winds are also quite unpredictable. Mjörn

192-512: Is a data center here. Mj%C3%B6rn (lake) Mjörn is a lake in Västergötland , shared between the municipalities of Alingsås and Lerum and is part of the main catchment area of the Göta River . The lake is 48 meters deep, covers an area of 54.5 square kilometers and has an elevation of 57.1 meters above sea level. Mjörn is 55 km in size and has a maximum depth of 48 meters. It

224-769: Is drained by Säveån. Its tributaries include Lake Anten and Lake Ålandasjön in the north and Säveån through Alingsås. Its outflow is mainly in Solveden as well as the power plant in Norsesund . It then continues in the lake Sävelången, Säveån through Lerum and Partille municipalities and into the Göta River in Gothenburg. There are several valuable biological, geological and cultural-historical areas around Mjörn. Eighteen different species have been identified so far. Among these are more unusual species such as alpine bullhead , lamprey and

256-468: Is located on the way to Gräfsnäs . The Giant's Kettles are common visiting sites for secondary school classes. Gräfsnäs slottsruin is a castle ruin located by the lake Anten , just outside Alingsås. It was built in 1550 by Count Sten Eriksson Leijonhufvud , who already owned a castle on the other side of the lake, in Loholmen . After Eriksson's death, 1568, his wife Ebba Månsson Leijonhufvud took care of

288-513: Is often called "The Capital of Fika". Three of the cafes are included in the White Guide. Karin Boye , a Swedish writer, committed suicide in a forest in the Alingsås city district of Nolby in 1941. The place is now a memorial, and a popular visiting site for schoolclasses, taking the "Karin Boye tour". Alingsås has an art gallery, libraries and a museum. Alingsås has a rich cultural life, and hosts

320-439: The 46 upstream catchment areas are included, the accumulated area is 1.115.33 square kilometers. The Säveån river that drains the catchment area has tributary order 2, which means that the water flows through a total of 2 watercourses before reaching the sea after 46 kilometers. The catchment area consists mostly of forest (41%). It also has 55.73 square kilometers of water surface, giving it a lake percentage of 35.8%. Settlements in

352-799: The Architectural Lighting Design profession and PLDA. Professional members are those who own an independent practice or work in an independent practice, and have a certain number of years of experience in lighting design. The same applies to Associate members, except their years of experience are less. Non-voting members are Design members (independent, but with little or no experience as an independent designer), Student members and Affiliate members. Affiliate members are those who are not full-time lighting designers, but are very interested in lighting design or need it for their profession. PLDA collaborates with other lighting associations, including CIE, IES and other groupings of lighting designers around

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384-511: The European Lighting Designers' Association ( ELDA+ ), is an international association of architectural lighting designers headquartered in Gütersloh ,Germany. Initially established in 1994 as a European organization, PLDA has since expanded its reach beyond Europe, with a growing membership in Asia and North America. Despite experiencing a liquidation in 2014 due to insolvency, PLDA continues to serve as

416-639: The Western Main Line, whose first sod was turned in Lövekulle outside Alingsås, and the West Gothenburg Line. Several of them still exist along the shores of Lake Mjörn. The lake's oldest name is Mior, and it is already mentioned in Västgötalagen (1350) as a public lake. According to the county administrative board, Mjörn has also been classified as a lake with "particularly high nature value", meaning

448-662: The area cover an area of 8.65 square kilometers or 6% of the catchment area. Mjörn is popular as a swimming, boating and fishing lake. Alingsås Segelsällskap, Sjöscoutkår and Mjörns Motorbåtsällskap are based on the lake. Mjörns Ångbåtsförening operates the steam tug S/S Herbert, built in 1905. Recreational fishing is controlled by Alingsås Sportfiskeförening. The Mjörn Runt cycle race is organized annually, starting and finishing in Alingsås. Other associations with links to Mjörn include Föreningen Mjörn, Hjällnäs Båt- och Bryggförening, Mjörns Fiskevårdsområdesförening, Föreningen Mjörnbygden and Björboholms Segelsällskap. The attractiveness of

480-583: The area for accommodation. Alingsås FC United, a women's team, is the town's most reputable football club. The team currently competes in the Elitettan , the Swedish second tier of women's football below the Damallsvenskan . Two men's football clubs also exist in the city, Holmalunds IF and Alingsås IF , both competing in the regional Division 3 Mellersta Götaland, in the fifth tier of Swedish football. There

512-425: The association. The Professional Lighting Designers' Association believes that education is the key to establishing Lighting Design as a serious profession. The association thus dedicates a large portion of its time to the organisation and support of education programmes at university level. PLDA has an Educators' network. International educators meet on a regular basis. PLDA works closely with many universities around

544-417: The castle, and it would stay in the family until 1724. In 1634 the castle burnt to the ground, but was rebuilt as a magnificent castle in late renaissance style. In 1734 it burned down again, but the owner at that time rebuilt it to match what it had been. In 1834, exactly two hundred years after it had burnt for the first time, the castle was sold to Otto Ulfsparre for 110 000 barrels of schnapps. The day that

576-482: The discovery of 2,500-year-old Bronze Age ornaments which can be related with a woman of high status. Some of the necklaces, chains and pins, discovered by chance by the cartographer Tomas Karlsson, are very well preserved. In different locations in Alingsås you can find several round craters carved in the rock. These are called Giant's Kettles, and can vary a lot in size and depth. The biggest ones are in Brobacka , which

608-575: The environment around the lake is shown by the increased demand for plots and large house constructions in Alingsås . The attraction is the "magnificent view of Lake Mjörn". Also worth mentioning are the old historic large farms of Bryngenäs, Öijared, Östad and Vikaryd. In connection with the advent of the railroad, typical summer homes were built. The villages of Björboholm, Västra Bodarne and Skår, Lövekulle with its large holiday villas, owned by wealthy merchants mostly from Gothenburg, developed alongside both

640-517: The highest possible classification. There are many ancient remains around the lake and on the islands, and ancient finds have been found on the shores and islands. Several excavations have been made on Risön and objects from the Stone Age (3000-1800 BC) have been found. At the Brobacka Nature Center on the northern shore of Mjörn, Scandinavia's largest giant's kettle field can be found, with

672-407: The islands in Mjörn are areas with high nature values. Several small islands are bird protection areas. As late as the 1950s, agriculture was practiced on four of the lake's largest islands. There are now two permanent homes, one on Bokö and one on Kärleken. In 1987, the non-profit association "Mjörns Sjökortsförening" was formed with the aim of creating reliable nautical charts of Mjörn and to manage

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704-481: The lake. Mjörn also offers a rich bird life. There are purely maritime species here that do not normally belong in an inland environment, such as great black-backed gull , eurasian oystercatcher and common eider . During migration times, countless birds pass over Mjörn. Examples of breeding seabirds are the black-throated loon , osprey , little ringed plover , red-breasted merganser and great black-backed gull. Bird reserves have been established in Mjörn. All

736-711: The largest one measuring approximately 18 meters in diameter. It serves as a reminder of the time when the inland ice covered the area. The powerful flow of meltwater through the narrow passage in Brobacka carried large stones, shaping the enormous kettles. Mjörn was once part of the North Sea and remnants from this period can still be found today, including so-called glacial marine relics, caridean shrimp that have adapted to fresh water and seashells from sea snails. Professional Lighting Designers%27 Association The Professional Lighting Designers' Association ( PLDA ), formerly

768-404: The marking of a fairway across the lake. Since then, the association has built five new lighthouses on the lake, in addition to the existing "Alingsås angöring" lighthouse, and published seven editions of nautical charts. Mjörn is part of the sub-basin (642512-129848) that SMHI calls the outlet of Mjörn. The average height is 81 meters above sea level and the area is 155.69 square kilometers. If

800-423: The more popular sports. There are two health centres, which host different types of group training as well as providing training machines. AHK, the handball association of Alingsås, yearly hosts a tournament where teams from all over the country can join and play against each other. It is, according to the city's history and nickname, called Potatiscupen (the potato tournament). The teams use the different schools in

832-408: The papers on the purchase were to be signed, the castle burnt - for the third time, with exactly 100 years between each of the three occasions. The last person to make the castle his permanent home was fisherman Nils Andersson, who paid his rent in fish. After his death, the roof was eventually removed to prevent the partying that the youths in the village were doing in the old castle. In 1911 the castle

864-511: The special Mjörn trout. The others are northern pike , perch , zander , eel , bream , roach , ide , tench , burbot , ninespine stickleblack , ruffe , vendace and smelt . A local rumor in the Alingså area claims that the lake also hosts the wels catfish , but this has never been confirmed. A fishing license is required. In test fishing, perch, bream, northern pike, perch, zander, burbot, roach, ruffe, vendace and tench have been caught in

896-626: The tour themselves or in guided groups, and it has over the years become very popular internationally. The project is a cooperation between Alingsås Kommun and Professional Lighting Designers' Association since 2000. In the summer, a festival is hosted by Alingsås Kommun, called Potatisfestivalen (the Potato Festival). It is a city festival with different activities, such as concerts and performances. Alingsås has several sports associations. Swimming, figure skating, ice hockey, track and field, orienteering, soccer, handball and floorball are some of

928-582: The world, for example at KTH in Stockholm/S, the Hochschule Wismar/D, Fachhochschule Hildesheim/D, Parson's New School of Design in NYC/USA and Bachelor and Masters programmes in many European countries. The Workshop Programme with up to four major workshops a year gives students and young designers the opportunity to work in teams under the guidance of a professional lighting designer to develop and implement

960-619: The world. With the Institution of Lighting Engineers, PLDA has a partnership agreement, in order to foster deeper understanding between the lighting profession and engineering practitioners. The organization's official magazine is the Professional Lighting Design, published by the VIA-Verlag. Every member receives the magazine automatically. The VIA-Verlag maintains very close ties with PLDA by, for example, organizing many events for

992-458: Was granted its charter in 1621). Among its historical inhabitants is Jonas Alströmer , who was born in Alingsås in 1685. Alströmer is credited for introducing the potato plant to Sweden. He also established a large scale draper 's industry there, which before long became Sweden's largest. However, some too-optimistic calculations, devastating fires and political setbacks finally forced its closure in 1779. In April 2021, archaeologists announced

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1024-421: Was restored by Västergötland-Göteborgs Järnvägs AB , and since 1930 it is cared for by Alingsås Municipality . Alingsås museum was founded in 1928, and contains memorial collections of photographs and the municipal archives, as well as hosting several exhibitions. It has been closed to the public since spring 2010, due to rearrangement with the premises. Alingsås is known for its cafes, 26 in total (in 2010), and

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