Finspång Municipality

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Finspång Municipality on Sweden's municipal map

Finspång Municipality is a Swedish municipality in Östergötland County, in southeast Sweden. The municipality covers an area of 1059.8 km². Of the total population of 21477, 10878 are male, and 10599 are female. The population density of the community is 20 inhabitants per km².

Of the municipal population, circa 13,000 live in the town Finspång.

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[edit] Nature

The municipality refers to itself as Sweden's most lake-dense municipality, with at least 170 named lakes (although the advertising claims one can swim in a different one every day).

[edit] History

Finspång castle
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Finspång castle

Finspång is a traditional industrial city. The first industries were established in 1580 when a Royal factory for cannon and cannon balls was supervised. The industry was to continue for 300 years under supervision of the Dutch-stemming family De Geer. By Louis Gerhard De Geer (1622-1695), the finspång Castle was constructed, and around it industries and an orangery developed into the city Finspång.


[edit] Municipal towns

  • Finspång
  • Rejmyre
  • Lotorp
  • Sonstorp
  • Falla
  • Hällestad
  • Ljusfallshammar
  • Grytgöl
  • Igelfors
  • Borggård
  • Butbro
  • Hävla
  • Bränntorp
  • Byle
  • Kolstad
  • Lämmetorp
  • Lövlund
  • Prästköp

[edit] Twin towns

Finspång Municipality has formal twin town treaties with three cities. These treaties were signed in 1967.

There are today no contacts with neither Stromberg or Givet, and was also broken with Yvoir until reestablished in 1997.

Finspång also have (unformally) established cooperation with seven other cities:

(Source and more information: [1] (Swedish))

[edit] Notable people born in Finspång

[edit] See also

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Municipalities of Östergötland County
Boxholm | Finspång | Kinda | Linköping | Mjölby | Motala | Norrköping | Söderköping | Vadstena | Valdemarsvik | Ydre | Åtvidaberg | Ödeshög
Counties of Sweden | Sweden

Coordinates: 58°42′N 15°46′E

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