Geography

Emmaboda is located in the middle of the Tri-City Region Växjö

Växjö

Växjö is a city and the seat of Växjö Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden with 64 200 inhabitants in 2010. It is the administrative, cultural and industrial centre of Kronoberg County. Furthermore it is the episcopal see of the Diocese of Växjö. It has a population of about 64 200, out of a...

, Kalmar

Kalmar

Kalmar is a city in Småland in the south-east of Sweden, situated by the Baltic Sea. It had 62,767 inhabitants in 2010 and is the seat of Kalmar Municipality. It is also the capital of Kalmar County, which comprises 12 municipalities with a total of 233,776 inhabitants .From the thirteenth to the...

 and Karlskrona

Karlskrona

Karlskrona is a locality and the seat of Karlskrona Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden with 35,212 inhabitants in 2010. It is also the capital of Blekinge County. Karlskrona is known as Sweden's only baroque city and is host to Sweden's only remaining naval base and the headquarters of the...

. All three places are sixty kilometers from Emmaboda.

Culture

Emmabodafestivalen is an indiepop festival annually held in Emmaboda. This attracts pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 fans from all over Sweden. Other events taking place in Emmaboda include the car race "A Day On the Strip", and "End of Summer Big Power Meet", a classic car show which attracts. veteran cars from all over Sweden and other nordic countries. The author Vilhelm Moberg

Vilhelm Moberg

Karl Artur Vilhelm Moberg was a Swedish author and historian, most commonly associated with his four novels known as The Emigrants Series.-Early life:...

 was born in Emmaboda municipality, more specifically, in Moshultamåla, 1898. Many of his novels are Emmaboda area. The actor Erik Hell was born in Emmaboda.

History

Until 1875 Emmaboda was called Gantesbo. Then there were only two houses in Gantesbo, which both remain to this day. The houses are called Gantesbo A and Gantesbo B. One of the houses is located on Bökön located west of Emmaboda's sports ground. The second stands on a hill between Emmaboda parish and the Bjurbäck school.

Sporting life

Emmaboda has a rich sporting life. There is a Football Club Emmaboda IS, with women's and men's teams in the 2nd and 3rd Division. The three famous football brothers Elm are all from the village Broakulla which is located near the Emmaboda. There is also a local hockey club previously called Gant Espoo IBK that became Lindås BK in 2005. It has and has one men's team in Division 5th and a women's team in the boot. The soccer players Erik "Mulle" Holmkvist, Lennart "Lill mulligan" Holmkvist, Oskar "Masse" Holmkvist, Rune "Lill-Rune", "Jipas" Johansson, Lasse Johansso and the hockey player Jan-Olof "Jos" Smith were all born in Emmaboda.

Industry

Emmaboda has two large companies, ITT Water & Wastewater (located on the brink of Linde) and Emmaboda Glass Works. Emmaboda also has many medium sized businesses.