Lekeberg Municipality

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**Lekeberg Municipality (*Kommun*)**
Location in southern Sweden Map outlining municipalities of Sweden	Coat of arms
	Municipal facts
	Seat	Fjugesta
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	County	Örebro County
	Province	Närke
	Area Rank	495 km² 181st of 290
	Population Rank (2003)	7,061 of 290
	Density	15/km²

Lekeberg is a Municipality, in Örebro County, in central Sweden. The municipal seat is located in Fjugesta with around 2,000 inhabitants.

It is one of the most recent municipalities of Sweden, created as recently as 1995, breaking out from Örebro Municipality.

1 Geography
- 1.1 Municipal towns
2 Sights
3 External links

[edit] Geography

Mostly woods and farm lands, with Garphyttan National Park in 1909 located within municipal borders.

The largest industry sector is farming industry. Many farmers have further specialized on hog and chicken farming.

Other industry are small companies within wood and carpeting industries, and craftswork and other small enterprises.

[edit] Municipal towns

Over 200 inhabitants has:

Fjugesta
Mullhyttan
Gropen
Hidinge
Lanna

[edit] Sights

The monastery ruin of Riseberga was the home of nuns of Cistercian order in the medieval age. It burnt down in 1546, and remaining stones were used in the building of a local church some hundreds years later.

The amphitheater of Riseberga is Sweden's largest of that kind, with 1,216 seats.