Oxelösund is a locality and the seat of

Oxelösund Municipality Oxelösund Municipality () is a municipality in Södermanland County in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Oxelösund. In 1950 the ''Nikolai Rural municipality'' was dissolved. One part formed the then ''City of Oxelösund'', o ...

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 ...

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with 11,488 inhabitants in 2018. It is located less than south from the city centre of its larger neighbour,

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 ...

, with the two urban areas forming a wider agglomeration of nearly 50,000 people.

History

The harbour at Oxelösund has been used for at least 500 years. In the 19th century, an increased extraction from the mining district of Central Sweden (e.g. ''Bergslagen''), made Oxelösund a harbour of transport. A local railroad company was established in 1873 and bought virtually the entire peninsula, which then belonged to the estates of the Stjärnholm Castle. An

iron works An ironworks or iron works is a building or site where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made. Iron Works may also refer to: * Iron Works, a neighborhood in Brookfield, Connecticut * Clay City, Kentucky, known as Iron ...

was constructed in 1913, and the community Oxelösund expanded, with the harbour, railway and iron works being its cornerstones. In 1950, the city was sufficiently developed to get the title of a city and was one of the last towns to receive

city status in Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a 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 country by both area ...

. Since 1971, the status is obsolete, but Oxelösund is the seat of a municipality with the same territory that is one of the smallest in the country. In November 2011, Oxelösund hosted the Nordic Under-21 Championships in underwater rugby. Femöre battery is located near the area.

Companies

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, earlier Svenskt Stål AB (), is a Swedish company, formed in 1978, that spec ...

, Swedish steel.

Climate

Oxelösund has a hybrid between a maritime and

humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold ...

, with moderated patterns which stem from its position at the head of a peninsula, with the weather station facing the open sea. In much of the urban area and up the peninsula the climate is somewhat more prone to swings, something intensifying farther north as in

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* Municipal seats of Södermanland County Swedish municipal seats Populated places in Oxelösund Municipality Coastal cities and towns in Sweden Port cities and towns of the Baltic Sea {{Södermanland-geo-stub