Hallsberg is a bimunicipal locality

Urban areas in Sweden

Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality. There are 1,940 localities in Sweden . They could be compared with census-designated places in the United States.A tätort in Sweden has a minimum of...

 and the seat of Hallsberg Municipality

Hallsberg Municipality

Hallsberg Municipality is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Hallsberg....

, Örebro County

Örebro County

Örebro County is a county or län in central Sweden. It borders the counties of Västra Götaland, Värmland, Dalarna, Västmanland, Södermanland and Östergötland.- Province :...

, Sweden

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 with 7,122 inhabitants in 2005. It is also partly located in Kumla Municipality

Kumla Municipality

Kumla Municipality is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Kumla.The present municipality was formed during the latest nation-wide local government reform in Sweden, with the amalgamations taking place in 1966 and 1971.With 207 km² it is the...

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Overview

This settlement grew up around a railway junction, and is now known as a place where you have to change trains. The railway station is oversized for the town's own needs. Hallsberg was declared a municipalsamhälle (a type of borough within its municipality) in 1883 and got the title of a market town in 1908. Since 1971 it is instead the seat of the enlarged Hallsberg Municipality

Hallsberg Municipality

Hallsberg Municipality is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Hallsberg....

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Hallsberg is famous for its huge classification yard

Classification yard

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 and for the large train station

Train station

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. The reason for this is that railways (from practically all cardinal direction

Cardinal direction

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s) to and from Stockholm

Stockholm

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, Gothenburg

Gothenburg

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, Mjölby

Mjölby

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, Örebro

Örebro

-Sites of interest:Örebro's old town Wadköping is located on the banks of Svartån . It contains many 18th and 19th century wooden houses, along with museums and exhibitions....

 and Karlstad

Karlstad

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 join here. Among the more important is the Västra stambanan ("western main line"). As the railways were built, Hallsberg grew up around it.

A sight in the Hallsberg is the Bergööska House, built in the 1880s. It was drawn by the architect Ferdinand Boberg

Ferdinand Boberg

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, and contains wall-paintings by Carl Larsson

Carl Larsson

Carl Larsson was a Swedish painter and interior designer, representative of the Arts and Crafts Movement. His many paintings include oils, watercolors, and frescoes...

, depicting the Bergöö family and other well-known people of Hallsberg.

The main industries are Volvo

Volvo

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, Ahlsell, and enterprises related to the railway industry.

Hallsberg is twinned with Gifhorn

Gifhorn

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, Germany.

Sven Wingquist

Sven Wingquist

Sven Gustaf Wingqvist was a Swedish engineer, inventor and industrialist, and one of the founders of Svenska Kullagerfabriken , one of the world's leading ball- and roller bearing makers. Sven Wingqvist invented the multi-row self-aligning radial ball bearing in 1907.-Chronology:*1876: Born...

, co-founder of SKF

SKF

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in 1907 was born in Hallsberg December 10, 1876.