Hallsberg () is a bimunicipal

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and the seat of

Hallsberg Municipality Hallsberg Municipality (''Hallsbergs kommun'') is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Hallsberg. The present municipality was created in 1971 when the market town (''köping'') of Hallsberg was a ...

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 n ...

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with 7,122 inhabitants in 2010. It is also partly located in

Kumla Municipality Kumla Municipality (''Kumla kommun'') is a municipalities of Sweden, municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the stad (Sweden), city of Kumla. The present municipality was formed during the latest nationwide local ...

Overview

This settlement grew up around a railway junction, and is these days primarily known as a place where you have to change trains. The railway station is oversized for the town's own needs. Hallsberg was declared a ''municipalsamhälle'' (a type of borough within its municipality) in 1883 and got the title of a market town (köping) in 1908. Since 1971 it is instead the seat of the enlarged

. Hallsberg is famous for its huge

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and for the large

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. The reason for this is that

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s (from practically all

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s) to and from

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and

Karlstad Karlstad (, ) is the 20th-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Karlstad Municipality, the capital of Värmland County, and the largest city in the province Värmland in Sweden. The city proper had 65,856 inhabitants in 2020 with 95,167 inhabitants ...

join here. Among the more important is the

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, and contains wall-paintings by

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, depicting the Bergöö family and other well-known people of Hallsberg. The main industries are

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, Ahlsell, and enterprises related to the railway industry. Sports equipment manufacturer Kosa is also situated here. Hallsberg has three

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Sven Wingquist Sven Gustaf Wingqvist (10 December 1876 – 17 April 1953) was a Swedish engineer, inventor and industrialist, and one of the founders of Svenska Kullagerfabriken (SKF), one of the world's leading ball bearing and roller bearing makers. Sven W ...

, co-founder of

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in 1907, was born in Hallsberg on December 10, 1876.

References

Populated places in Örebro County Populated places in Hallsberg Municipality Populated places in Kumla Municipality Municipal seats of Örebro County Swedish municipal seats {{Örebro-geo-stub