In front of you stands a broad brick school building, rectangular and orderly, with long bands of windows and a clearly marked central entrance that gives it a calm, modern weight.
This place carries more than one school life. The story began in eighteen sixty-one, when Örnsköldsvik founded a smaller grammar school. Over the decades, it kept changing with the town itself: in nineteen oh five it became a coeducational school, teaching girls and boys together, and from nineteen forty-four it grew into a higher general grammar school with a four-year gymnasium, the university-prep level. Architect Paul Hedqvist gave it this brick form, and the first lessons started here on the twenty-sixth of August, nineteen forty-nine, with seven hundred and eighty-nine students.
When Princess Sibylla came for the opening in April nineteen fifty, this building already held an ambitious world inside: a library, rooms for the humanities, geography, biology, physics, chemistry, technical training, crafts, household studies, and even an organ in the assembly hall. In nineteen sixty-six, the municipality took over and renamed it Nolaskolan. If you plan to return, it usually opens on weekdays and stays closed on weekends.
