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Möckeln
Möckeln is a lake in Karlskoga and Degerfors Municipalities in Örebro County, Sweden. Except for the settlements surrounding the lake, Degernäs Manor is situated at the southernmost tip of the lake and Valåsen Manor just north of the Valåsen and Labbsand-settlement, overlooking the northeastern parts of the lake. Fauna Species of Zander (''Sander lucioperca''), European perch (''Perca fluviatilis'') and Northern pike (''Esox lucius'') are most frequently fished here. Geology Möckeln lake formed in place of a meteorite impact crater. Geological surveys in 2011 led by the geophysicist Herbert Henkel, formerly active at the Royal Institute of Technology, established that Möckeln lake northern end towards Karlskoga is a degraded meteorite impact crater with an original diameter of about 4.5 km. The meteorite that crashed is estimated to have a diameter of no more than a couple of hundred meters. The crater formation is lowered about 400 meters below the then ground ...
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Karlskoga
Karlskoga () is a locality and the seat of Karlskoga Municipality, Sweden. Located within Örebro County, 45 km (28 mi) west of Örebro, and 10 km (6 mi) north of Degerfors. With a 2020 population of 27,386 distributed over 10.55 square miles (27.33 km2), Karlskoga is the second-largest city in both Örebro County and the historical province of Värmland. Karlskoga straddles the northern shore of Lake Möckeln. Among the city's main topographical features are the two rivers, Timsälven and Svartälven. Other features include an esker, Rävåsen, contiguous with the city center. The broader Karlskoga-area differs from its bordering regions, as covered by woodlands and an uneven topography that more fitted other activities rather than agricultural practices. Karlskoga evolved around the arms manufacturer Bofors, and by 1970, it counted almost 10,000 employees. The many jobs in the arms industry during the 1900s multiplied Karlskoga's population. Today, Karlskoga is still a thrivin ...
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Valåsen Och Labbsand
Valåsen och Labbsand is a locality ( tätort) situated in Karlskoga Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden with 354 inhabitants in 2020. Established in 2015, but had previously been part of Karlskoga, according to Statistics Sweden. Geography Valåsen och Labbsand is near the course of the River Valån. The area is completely located in the Karlskoga Municipality. The locality lies mostly to the south of Valåsen Manor, and is bounded notionally by Kilsbergen (the low mountainous ridge) to the east, Lake Möckeln to the west, Degerfors Municipality to the south. To the north is a subdivision of Moelven Industrier, Moelven Valåsen AB. The area is mostly residential, the particular exception being Karlskoga Golf Club. Bus services run to both Central Karlskoga and Degerfors Degerfors () is a locality and the seat of Degerfors Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden, with 7,160 inhabitants in 2010. Degerfors is the sixth-largest city in Örebro County. It is located at the ...
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Valåsen Manor
Valåsen Manor ( sv, Valåsens herrgård, ) is a manor house at Valåsen och Labbsand. The manor is located in Karlskoga Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden. The current-standing manor house was built in the 18th century, but the history of the property is older. Valåsen Manor is one of Karlskoga's major historical buildings. The manor is associated with several Swedish writers including Selma Lagerlöf, Hjalmar Bergman, Erik Gustaf Geijer and Sven Stolpe. Geography Valåsen Manor is near the course of the River Valån, east of Lake Möckeln, uphill on a sloping site. It is bounded notionally by Kilsbergen and Lake Angsjön, to the east. History Valåsen Works was acquired in the 1630s by Gerhard Ysing from Arvid Bengtsson. Valåsen was passed to Ysing's heir, Johan Ysing. In 1779, the manor was acquired by nobleman Bengt von Hofsten. There he created an English landscape garden. The manor was then passed to his heirs. For several generations the property was strong ...
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Degerfors
Degerfors () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Degerfors Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden, with 7,160 inhabitants in 2010. Degerfors is the sixth-largest city in Örebro County. It is located at the southern shore of lake Möckeln, 13 km (8 mi) south of neighboring Karlskoga. History Degerfors has traditionally been an industrial community closely connected to the large ironworks, associated with members of the Camitz family. The settlement (originally called Johannelund) grew up around this industry and got the status of a ''municipalsamhälle'' (a type of borough within a municipality) in 1912. Today it acts as seat of the larger Degerfors Municipality. In the 1870s, a group of people native to the Degerfors-area emigrated to the Ural (region), Ural region (then part of the Russian Empire). Economy The steelworks is now owned by the Finnish conglomerate Outokumpu Oyj. The location has a Degerfors railway station, railway station and a narrow-gauge railw ...
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Degernäs Manor
Degernäs Manor ( sv, Degernäs herrgård) is a manor house located at the southernmost tip of lake Möckeln in Degerfors Municipality, Örebro County. The manor house is surrounded by Degerfors golf course. History The building and its surroundings has traditionally been associated with Degerfors Ironworks and the Camitz family since the 17th century. J. Camitz enabled the creation of a park and a ''corps de logis'' at the estate. The manor house has ever since its completion, and the era of the Camitz family, been inhabited by the different managers of the local ironwork. Including members of Swedish aristocratic families, e.g. the Camitz, Strokirk and af Chapman families. In 1936, John Bengtson acquired the estate. For some time during the 1930s, its park was used as a site for scouting Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide youth movement employing the Scout method, a program of informal education with an emphasis on practical outdoor activit ...
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Björkborn Manor
Björkborn Manor ( sv, Björkborns herrgård, ) is a manor house and the very last residence of Alfred Nobel in Sweden. The manor is located in Karlskoga Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden. The current-standing white-colored manor house was built in the 1810s, but the history of the property is older. Björkborn Manor is the site of an Alfred Nobel museum. It had a role in the process of the creation of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Foundation. Björkborn is located within a park-like garden, that is bordered by a river to the west and south, and by an industrial area to the north. History First house on the site Established as an ironworks in 1639, by Mårten Drost. Crispin Flygge acquired the property in the 1670s, then passed it over to his widow, . In 1703, Björkborn was acquired by Jakob Christiansson Robsahm. The former-standing manor was built in the 17th century. It included a park-like garden, but which plants were grown is unknown. The Björkborn Ironworks was ...
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Perca Fluviatilis
The European perch (''Perca fluviatilis''), also known as the common perch, redfin perch, big-scaled redfin, English perch, Euro perch, Eurasian perch, Eurasian river perch, Hatch, poor man’s rockfish or in Anglophone parts of Europe, simply the perch, is a predatory species of the freshwater perch native to Europe and northern Asia. The species is a popular quarry for anglers, and has been widely introduced beyond its native area, into Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. They have caused substantial damage to native fish populations in Australia and have been proclaimed a noxious species in New South Wales. Description European perch are greenish with red pelvic, anal and caudal fins. They have five to eight dark vertical bars on their sides. When the perch grows larger, a hump grows between its head and dorsal fin. European perch can vary greatly in size between bodies of water. They can live for up to 22 years, and older perch are often much larger than average; ...
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Mien (lake)
Mien is a lake in southern Sweden, 12 km (7.5 mi) southwest of the town of Tingsryd. The lake is formed within a meteorite crater. The eroded crater is marked by a 5.5-km (3.4-mi) diameter circular lake (Lake Mien). The original crater rim is estimated to have been about 9 km in diameter before erosion. Its age is estimated to be 121.0 ± 2.3 million years (Early Cretaceous The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of ...). References External links Google map of 50 largest craters Impact craters of Sweden Cretaceous impact craters Lakes of Kronoberg County Landforms of Kronoberg County Impact crater lakes {{Kronoberg-geo-stub ...
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Dellen
Dellen is a lake system in the province of Hälsingland, Sweden. It consists of two lakes, ''Northern Dellen'' and ''Southern Dellen'', appreciated among fly-fishermen for their population of brown trout. Southern Dellen has a surface area of 52 km2 and a water volume of 1,226 million m³. Northern Dellen has an area of 82 km2 and a water volume of 1,489 million m³. The two lakes are only separated by a short channel, and it is therefore disputed whether they should be counted as one or two lakes. The two lakes together have a total area of 130 km2, which would be the 18th largest Swedish lake. The vaguely circular lake system was formed by an impact crater 89 million years ago, placing the impact in the Late Cretaceous. The resulting impact crater measures about 19 kilometers in diameter. It has resulted in the area containing the rock Dellenite (a rock intermediate in composition between Rhyolite and Dacite), which has become the provincial rock. Asteroid 770 ...
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Siljan Ring
The Siljan Ring ( sv, Siljansringen) is a prehistoric impact crater in Dalarna, central Sweden. It is one of the 15 largest known impact craters on Earth and the largest in Europe, with a diameter of about . The impact that created the Siljan Ring occurred when a meteorite collided with the Earth's surface during the Devonian period, about 376.8 ± 1.7 Ma. This coincides around the first Devonian extinction, the Kellwasser Event or Late Frasnian extinction at 376.1 Ma ± 1.6 Ma. The effects of the impact can clearly be seen in the bedrock in the area. The Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian sedimentary rocks deformed by the impact are rich in fossils. The area around the Siljan Ring has been the site of recent prospecting for oil and natural gas, though none of the projects has so far been commercially viable. There are large deposits of lead and zinc near Boda at the eastern edge of the Ring. There are several lakes in the vicinity, the largest of which is Siljan on the south-so ...
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Royal Institute Of Technology
The KTH Royal Institute of Technology ( sv, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, lit=Royal Institute of Technology), abbreviated KTH, is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH conducts research and education in engineering and technology and is Sweden's largest technical university. Currently, KTH consists of five schools with four campuses in and around Stockholm. KTH was established in 1827 as the ''Teknologiska institutet (Institute of Technology)'' and had its roots in the ''Mekaniska skolan (School of Mechanics)'' that was established in 1798 in Stockholm. But the origin of KTH dates back to the predecessor of the ''Mekaniska skolan'', the ''Laboratorium mechanicum'', which was established in 1697 by the Swedish scientist and innovator Christopher Polhem. The Laboratorium mechanicum combined education technology, a laboratory, and an exhibition space for innovations. In 1877 KTH received its current name, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (KTH Royal Institute of Technol ...
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Esox Lucius
The northern pike (''Esox lucius'') is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus ''Esox'' (the pikes). They are typical of brackish and fresh waters of the Northern Hemisphere (''i.e.'' holarctic in distribution). They are known simply as a pike in Britain, Ireland, and most of Eastern Europe, Canada and the United States. Pike can grow to a relatively large size: the average length is about , with maximum recorded lengths of up to and published weights of . The IGFA currently recognizes a pike caught by Lothar Louis on Greffern Lake, Germany, on 16 October 1986, as the all-tackle world-record northern pike. Northern pike grow to larger sizes in Eurasia than in North America, and typically grow to larger sizes in coastal than inland regions of Eurasia. Etymology The northern pike gets its common name from its resemblance to the pole-weapon known as the pike (from the Middle English for 'pointed'). Various other unofficial trivial names are common pike, Lakes pike, great nor ...
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