Finspång Municipality
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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. The municipality boasts that one can swim in a different lake each day of the year as there are 366 different ones.
[edit] History
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. Today the two main industrial areas are those of turbines and copper processing.
[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:
- Dzierzgoń, Poland
- Finsterwalde, Germany
- Joutsa, Finland
- Nordborg, Denmark
- Salaspil, Latvia
- Sibiu, Romania
- Stade, Germany
(Source and more information: [1] (Swedish))
[edit] Notable people born in Finspång
- Pär Arvidsson (*1960) – butterfly swimmer
- Liselotte Neumann (*1966) – professional golfer.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Finspång - Official site
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