Why such an arctic name as the “Nordpolen”?
At the end of last century, one man lived: Salomon August Andrée, he was explorers and scientists. His great interest was to fly air balloons. He had a big dream to once fly an air balloon to the North Pole.

During one of his test flights on July 14, 1894 he started from the gas station in Gothenburg (he would test the ability to control his balloon with so-called control lines).
The wind was western and in the afternoon he passed Vara. He landed on a farm belonging to a farm called Joy. It is told that Andrée, with a company of companionship, entered Vara and “was involved in joining the citizens of Vara”.

Three years later, Andrée started his fatal journey from Danskön on Spetsbergen towards the North Pole. He did not come so far, 65 hours later, he landed in the ice on Viton.
Not until 1930 an expedition found the remains and equipment in the ice with, among other things, detailed diaries and unraveled films.

When the sisters Alma and Alvida started their patisserie, they came to think of Andrées visit to Vara in 1894. Then in 1903, the André expedition was still lost and they decided to honor Andrées memory by calling the patisserie for the “Nordpolen”.