Väne-Åsaka

Väne-Åsaka is a locality situated in Trollhättan Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 292 inhabitants in 2010.^[1] It locally known as Åsaka. Väne is name of the old hundred, added to the name by authorities in 1885 to tell this place and four other Åsaka in Västra Götaland apart.

Väne-Åsaka
Väne-Åsaka church
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Coordinates: 58°15′N 12°25′E
Country	Sweden
Province	Västergötland
County	Västra Götaland County
Municipality	Trollhättan Municipality
Area [1]
• Total	0.48 km2 (0.19 sq mi)
Population  (31 December 2010)[1]
• Total	292
• Density	613/km2 (1,590/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

History

The church, around which the settlement is situated, has details from the 1100s. The baptismal font is from the Middle Ages.^[2]

In the 1950s, Rolf Mellde - an engineer and car designer for Saab - began constructing prototypes for a lightweight roadster racing car in a barn in Väne-Åsaka. This prototype became the Saab Sonett I. After a secretive development period the car was revealed at the Stockholm Bilsalong in 1954.^[3]

References

1. "Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km² 2005 och 2010" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 14 December 2011. Archived from the original on 2012-01-27. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
2. "Väne-Åsaka kyrka". www.svenskakyrkan.se. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
3. "Saab Sonett I, första sportbilen – Club Sonett Sweden" (in Swedish). Retrieved 2019-09-09.