Boxholm Municipality () is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Östergötland County Östergötland County ( sv, Östergötlands län) is a county or ''län'' in southeastern Sweden. It has land borders with the counties of Kalmar to the southeast, Jönköping to the southwest, Örebro to the northwest, and Södermanland to the n ...

in southeast

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

. Its seat is located in the industrial town of

Boxholm Boxholm (, , traditionally also , ) is a locality and the seat of Boxholm Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 3,194 inhabitants in 2010. Economy Steel production company Ovako has a production site in Boxholm with approximately 200 e ...

. The present municipality was formed in 1971, when the market town (''

köping ''Köping'' was a Swedish denomination for a market town since the Middle Ages, derived from the Old Norse word ''kaupang''. The designation was officially abolished with the municipal reform of 1971, when Sweden was subdivided into the Munici ...

'') Boxholm (itself instituted in 1947) was amalgamated with ''Södra Göstring'' and a parish (''Rinna'') from the dissolved municipality of ''Folkunga''.

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(seat) * Strålsnäs

History

The earliest human traces are from the

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, circa 8000 BC. From some later times, the

Nordic Bronze Age The Nordic Bronze Age (also Northern Bronze Age, or Scandinavian Bronze Age) is a period of Scandinavian prehistory from c. 2000/1750–500 BC. The Nordic Bronze Age culture emerged about 1750 BC as a continuation of the Battle Axe culture (the ...

, are several remains such as

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s and gravefields. And from the

Viking Age The Viking Age () was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America. It followed the Migration Period and the Ger ...

, ca 800–1,000 AD, are seven kept

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s. After the

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of Sweden, churches were built in the 12th and 13th century, and several churches have their foundation from that time. The name "Boxholm" is first to be found in the 16th century, as the name of a manor by Arvid Stenbock. Boxholm thus comes from "Bock's holm" (''holm'' a

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and

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word for

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). An iron works was constructed in 1754, and a community grew up around it. The major expansion were however made in the 1850–1900.

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Boxholm Municipality
- Official site {{Authority control Municipalities of Östergötland County

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