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Saltvik Prison

building in Sweden

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ7406216 ↗
Source-derived summary

Saltvik Prison (Swedish: Saltviksanstalten or Anstalten Saltvik) is a prison located in Härnösand Municipality, Sweden. This prison has 134 cells.

In December 2003, the Swedish government decided to replace the aging prison in Härnösand. The original replacement project Anstalten Härnösand was cancelled in 2009 and its replacement Saltviksanstalten opened in autumn of 2010.

Editorial summary

“Saltvik Prison” enters the record as building in Sweden. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Saltvik, Prison and building can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2009, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Saltvik, Prison and building.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Saltvik Prison” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Saltvik, Prison and building provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7406216. Authority coordinates are 62.654, 17.895. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2003, 2009 and 2010.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Saltvik Prison”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Saltvik Prison primary sources, Saltvik Prison archive and Saltvik research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Saltvik Prison”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from “Saltvik Prison” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.