Umeå - Town

In the center of Umeå is Rådhustorget (Town Hall Square), in which is a large bust of Gustavus Adolphus, founder of the town. To the south of the square, in Storgatan, is the town's principal church (1892), brick-built in neo-Gothic style. Beside the church stands an obelisk marking the common grave of a Swedish colonel, J. Z. Duncker, and a Cossack colonel, Aerekoff, who were killed in the fighting at Hörnefors in 1809. In Döbeln Park, adjoining the church, can be seen a monument commemorating General von Döbeln, commander of the last Swedish-Finnish army, which was disbanded here after the war with Russia in 1808-09, when Sweden was compelled to cede Finland to Russia.