Malmköping is a
locality situated in
Flen Municipality
Flen Municipality () is a municipality in central Södermanland County in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Flen.
The present municipality was formed in 1971 through the amalgamation of the ''City of Flen'' (instituted in 194 ...
,
Södermanland County
Södermanland County (, ) is a Counties of Sweden, 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 the ...
,
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
with 2 180 inhabitants in 2020.
Malmköping is located about 15 kilometers north-east of the municipal seat
Flen. It is a
tourist attraction
A tourist attraction is a place of interest that tourists visit, typically for its inherent or exhibited natural or cultural value, historical significance, natural or built beauty, offering leisure and amusement.
Types
Places of natural beaut ...
due to its many annual markets. The traditions of markets in Malmköping goes back more than two centuries, as Malmköping got market town rights (''
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 Munic ...
'') in 1785.
In the center of Malmköping there is a ski slope located, also known as Malmabacken which was established in 1965.
There is also a museum
tram
A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in Canada and the United States) is an urban rail transit in which Rolling stock, vehicles, whether individual railcars or multiple-unit trains, run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some ...
way in Malmköping, the , which runs heritage
tram
A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in Canada and the United States) is an urban rail transit in which Rolling stock, vehicles, whether individual railcars or multiple-unit trains, run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some ...
s from most of the Swedish tramway systems. Olympian
Helge Meuller was born here.
Riksdag
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elections
In literature
Jonas Jonasson's 2009 novel ''
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared'' opens in Malmköping. The
movie
A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, sinc ...
, however, is recorded in Munkedal, Bohuslän.
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Populated places in Flen Municipality
Market towns in Sweden
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