Fellingsbro (, locally ) is a

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and a

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situated in

Lindesberg Municipality Lindesberg Municipality (''Lindesbergs kommun'') is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Lindesberg. The present municipality was created in 1971 when the former ''City of Lindesberg'' and the f ...

Örebro County Örebro County ( sv, Örebro län) is a county or '' län'' in central Sweden. It borders the counties of Västra Götaland, Värmland, Dalarna, Västmanland, Södermanland and Östergötland. It is frequently culturally divided into the hilly ...

, Sweden with 1,384 inhabitants in 2010. It is home to the Fellingsbro

folk high school Folk high schools (also ''Adult Education Center'', Danish: ''Folkehøjskole;'' Dutch: ''Volkshogeschool;'' Finnish: ''kansanopisto'' and ''työväenopisto'' or ''kansalaisopisto;'' German: ''Volkshochschule'' and (a few) ''Heimvolkshochschule;' ...

History

The parish of Fellingsbro is mentioned already in 1331 as ''Parochia Fælansbro'', but the first parish church was probably built already in the 12th century. In the late 16th and early 17th centuries many small ironworks were built at the rivers that are running from north to south in the parish. The main product at these ironworks were

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. Most of the people were employed in this small scale iron industry and in the rather extensive farming up until the late 19th century when most of the ironworks were closed. Some of the ironworks were then transformed into paper mills. In 1857 a railroad between

Örebro Örebro ( , ) is the sixth-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Örebro Municipality, and capital of the Örebro County. It is situated by the Närke Plain, near the lake Hjälmaren, a few kilometers inland along the small river Svartån, and ...

and

Arboga Arboga () is a locality and the seat of Arboga Municipality in Västmanland County, Sweden with 10,330 inhabitants in 2010. Overview The city of Arboga is known to have existed as a town since the 13th century but the area has been inhabited sinc ...

was built and a station in Fellingsbro was opened some kilometres east of the parish church. A new

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with shops and small mechanical industries soon grew up around this railroad station. This

was called Fellingsbro after the name of the parish. It became a

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of its own in 1911, but was again united with the rest of the parish in 1957 and in 1971 Fellingsbro Municipality was incorporated into

. Fellingsbro ''folkhögskola'' was established in 1915, but was rebuilt in 1976 after a fire burned down the original building. Notable natives of Fellingsbro include the textile artist Märtha Gahn.

Population history

Riksdag elections

While historically the Fellingsbro district leaned centre-right, that changed from 1988 onwards and since then voted for the Social Democratic coalitions for multiple consecutive elections following 1994. As a result of the leftward shift of the Centre Party in 2018, the village voted to the left of the Lindesberg Municipality as a whole for the first time.

References

Populated places in Örebro County Populated places in Lindesberg Municipality {{Örebro-geo-stub