Bodebyn

Bodebyn stands in the valley of the Lule River, inland from the Gulf of Bothnia. Its name appears in a Swedish tax register in 1539; two decades later the village had forty-five inhabitants according to the accounts of 1559. It formed part of the great parish of Luleå. In 1826 the crown decided that the church of the new Överluleå parish should be built at Boden, and the church was completed in 1831.