Vingåker () is a

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and the seat of

Vingåker Municipality Vingåker Municipality (''Vingåkers kommun'') is a municipalities of Sweden, municipality in Södermanland County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Vingåker. The municipality has its present size since the local government ...

Södermanland County Södermanland County ( sv, Södermanlands län) is a county or '' län'' on the southeast coast of Sweden. In the local Sörmlandic dialects it is virtually universally shortened and pronounced as Sörmlands län, or simply Sörmland, which is t ...

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with 4,282 inhabitants in 2010. It is located by road from the nearest larger city

Örebro Örebro ( , ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, 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 in ...

and north-west of county seat

Nyköping Nyköping () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Nyköping Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 32,759 inhabitants as of 2017. The city is also the capital of Södermanland County. Including Arnö, the locality on the ...

. It was partly built in the English garden of Säfstaholm, a large estate which until 1855 was home to philanthropist and art collector Gustaf Trolle-Bonde. The estate is nowadays owned by the municipality and contains an art museum with yearly exhibitions during the summer. The town's expansion began in 1862 when a railway station was opened along the western main line (''

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). The station remained in operation until 1971, but reopened in 2003. The town is the birthplace of Gunnar Helén, former chairman of the Liberal Party, and former Swedish Prime Minister

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. A transit center for refugees from

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during

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was located in the manor of

Kjesäter Kjesäter is a manor in the municipality of Vingåker in the county of Södermanland in Sweden that now (2008) serves as a folk high school and hostel. During World War II, it served as a refugee camp and transit center for refugees fleeing Nazi pe ...

,NRK Radio , Museu
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'', 16 December 2017. Retrieved on 5 May 2019. now a

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References

Populated places in Södermanland County Populated places in Vingåker Municipality Municipal seats of Södermanland County Swedish municipal seats {{Södermanland-geo-stub