Zone:Aseaströmmen
| Aseaströmmen | |
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| Location | Västerås, Västmanland, Sweden |
| Surface | Paving stone |
| Created | 2010-09-04 14:41:37 |
| Aseaströmmen at Turfgame.com | |
Aseaströmmen is a turfzone in the municipality of Västerås in the region of Västmanland in Sweden and it is counted as a monument zone.
Placement[edit]
This zone is placed between the "Stora Torget" town square and "Bondtorget" town square by the ASEA-strömmen sculpture, in the city center of Västerås.
Asea-strömmen[edit]
The Aseaströmmen is a sculpture made by Bengt-Göran Broström on "Stora Torget" (The Big Town Square) in Västerås representing cycling workers. Work began in 1985 and the inauguration took place in 1989. It was taken down for restoration in 2021, and there is no date for completion (2023).
There are eight cycling workers cast in bronze and they ride on a polished 12 meter long granite wall that serves as a plinth. At the end of the plinth sits a conductor looking towards the cyclists also cycle through time as shown by their clothing varying from 1930s to 1950s models. It is popular to adorn the cyclists with accessories such as scarves. In the 1980s, the municipality wanted to mark the border between "Stora Torget" and "Bondtorget". Bengt-Göran Broström was contacted in 1985 to do the artistic design. He submitted a proposal for a 25 meter long wall with 13 cyclists. His working name for the piece was "Längs den långa gatan", but it was popularly called Aseaströmmen long before it was finished, and the artist adopted the name. The municipality decided that the wall should not be longer than 12 meters, and what the artist described as "the monument became a sculpture".
The sculpture symbolizes two things:
- The number of cyclists who went to and from Västerås' large industry Asea (now ABB) at the shift changes.
- Asea was an electrotechnical company that manufactured products for the generation, transmission and use of electric current, and which at the time of its founding utilized the current in the "Svartån" river to generate electricity for the company.
Gallery[edit]
Photo: Per Erik Strandberg (Wikipedia)
Nearby zones[edit]
- Engel (to the northeast)
- VåsCity (to the east)
- MiddlePark (to the south)
- KlippanZone (to the southwest)
- LängsMedÅn (to the west)
- DomChurch
(to the northwest)
