Ljungsbro () is a

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situated area in

Linköping Municipality Linköping Municipality (''Linköpings kommun'') is a municipality in Östergötland County in southern Sweden. With more than 165,000 inhabitants, it is the fifth largest municipality in Sweden. The municipality is bordered in the west by Motala ...

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 ...

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with 6,620 inhabitants in 2010. It is located about 15 kilometers from the city of

Linköping Linköping () is a city in southern Sweden, with around 105,000 inhabitants as of 2021. It is the seat of Linköping Municipality and the capital of Östergötland County. Linköping is also the episcopal see of the Diocese of Linköping (Church ...

. Through Ljungsbro runs

Motala ström Motala ström is the river system that drains lake Vättern, the second largest lake in Sweden, into the Baltic Sea in Norrköping. It is named from the city Motala where it begins. In the early 19th century, the Göta Canal The Göta Can ...

(stream) and

Göta Canal The Göta Canal ( sv, Göta kanal) is a Swedish canal constructed in the early 19th century. The canal is long, of which were dug or blasted, with a width varying between and a maximum depth of about .Uno Svedin, Britt Hägerhäll Anianss ...

. In the stream are the

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s of Nykvarn and Malfors. Malfors has a height of drop of 28,3-meter and Nykvarn has one of 4,3, however, Nykvarn is no longer running. The canal can be crossed via a

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, Sweden's second after Håverud, but also via a bridge, Malforsbron (''Malfors Bridge''). Since 2005, a summer café called Malfors Café och Brygga (''Malfors Café and Bridge'') is located by the bridge. Ljungsbro Fritidscenter (

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) is located about 400 meters from the bridge. Here you can stay the night, train at gym or go swimming. There is also an indoors ice hockey rink. The confectioners

Cloetta Cloetta is a Swedish confectionery and nuts company. The company manufactures and sells local confectionery brands on its main markets Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany and the UK. The company has 8 factories in five coun ...

is the largest industry in the area. On weekdays and Saturdays there is a popular market selling "Kex"-chocolate biscuit wafers and other chocolate products, which attracts many tourists. In the centre lies the main health centre and shops, among other things there are opticians, libraries, a watchmaker, a company that sells and lays tiles and a tobacco shop. Many of the houses were built in the 1950s for the workers of the Cloetta factory. There are two churches in the town, Allhelgonakyrkan and

Filadelfiakyrkan ('the Philadelphia Church') is a Pentecostal church building at Rörstrandsgatan 7 in Stockholm, Sweden; it was dedicated on 2 November 1930. The building is owned by the Filadelfia Stockholm congregation, the largest congregation in the Swedi ...

. By its residents, Ljungsbro is sometimes called ''Pickhult''.

Famous people from Ljungsbro

Mons Kallentoft Mons Kallentoft (born 15 April 1968), is a Swedish author and journalist. Kallentoft grew up in Ljungsbro outside Linköping and lives in Stockholm. He has written twelve books about Police Inspector Malin Fors. The series is translated in 28 ...

, writer and journalist

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Populated places in Östergötland County Populated places in Linköping Municipality {{Östergötland-geo-stub