Lindesberg Municipality

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**Lindesberg Municipality (*Kommun*)**
Map outlining the municipalities of Sweden	Coat of arms
	Municipal facts
	Seat	Lindesberg
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	County	Örebro County
	Province	Västmanland
	Area Rank	1,382 km² 69th of 290
	Population Rank (2003)	23,300 of 290
	Population density	17/km²

Lindesberg Municipality is a Municipality, in Örebro County, in central Sweden. Its seat is located in Lindesberg (pop. 8,600).

1 History
2 Industry
3 Notability
4 Municipal towns
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] History

Lindesberg has centuries old history, being the center of an old mining district. The earliest known traces of a town are in the foundations of the 14th century stone church. That town was however known as Lindesås.

The mining district Lindesberg was mentioned on the 16th century grand map Carta Marina.

Lindesberg got its charter and current name in 1643, granted by Queen Christina, making it one of the now defunct Cities of Sweden. The name lind means the linden tree (Br. Eng. lime tree), which is why the coat of arms depicts a tree.

Lindesberg cirka 1700, in Suecia antiqua et hodierna.

Lindesberg View in 1870

[edit] Industry

The largest employer is the municipality. After that follow the large hospital, serving the northern parts of Örebro County. Larger companies include Por Pac (Fagerdala Foams), Arvin Meritor and Liab.

[edit] Notability

Every year since 1996 the Augustibuller festival is held in Lindesberg. It is a punk festival. The festival attracts more and more visitors for every year and some of the bands who have played are Desmond Dekker, Charged GBH, Bad Manners, Napalm Death and The Perishers.