Åmmeberg is a 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...

 situated in Askersund Municipality

Askersund Municipality

Askersund Municipality is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Askersund....

, 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

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 with 654 inhabitants in 2005. It is situated at an estuary by a fjord

Fjord

Geologically, a fjord is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created in a valley carved by glacial activity.-Formation:A fjord is formed when a glacier cuts a U-shaped valley by abrasion of the surrounding bedrock. Glacial melting is accompanied by rebound of Earth's crust as the ice...

 of lake Vättern

Vättern

Vättern is the second largest lake in Sweden, after Lake Vänern and the sixth largest lake in Europe. It is a long, finger-shaped body of fresh water in south central Sweden to the southeast of Vänern pointing at the tip of Scandinavia....

. It existed as early as the 12th century and had a mill owned by the convent in Riseberga. It was the regional centre of trade until the founding of Askersund

Askersund

Askersund is a locality and the seat of Askersund Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden with 3,937 inhabitants in 2005.- Geography :The city is located in the northern bay of Lake Vättern....

.

The first Swedish female aviator, Elsa Andersson

Elsa Andersson

Elsa Andersson was Sweden's first female aviator and stunt parachutist.She was the daughter of a farmer in Strövelstorp in the Scanian countryside. Her mother died when she was aged six...

, died at age 24 outside Åmmeberg during a parachute

Parachute

A parachute is a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag, or in the case of ram-air parachutes, aerodynamic lift. Parachutes are usually made out of light, strong cloth, originally silk, now most commonly nylon...

 jump 22 January 1922 (her third ever).

According to local tradition Queen Christina of Sweden was to confer upon Åmmeberg city privileges, but her carriage broke down in Askersund, and the queen who preferred not travel any further decided that Askersund was to have the city rights.

It was the port of the mining industry in Zinkgruvan

Zinkgruvan

Zinkgruvan is a locality situated in Askersund Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden with 383 inhabitants in 2005.It is situated close to Sweden's second largest lake, Vättern. The village is famous for its mining industry started by the belgian company Vieille Montagne in 1857, hence the name...

, an industry started by a Belgian company Vieille Montagne

Vieille Montagne

Vieille Montagne is the name of a former zinc mine in Kelmis , a town in Belgium between Liège and Aachen. The mine's name is French for "the old mountain", and this is also reflected in its German name, Altenberg...

 1857. The mine belongs to Lundin Mining since June 2004.

It is the summerhome of former Sweden's ambassador to Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

, the novelist Jan Mårtensson, and has a small harbour and a seaside-golf course.