Hallsberg ( pronunciation ) is a bimunicipal locality and the seat of Hallsberg Municipality , Örebro County , Sweden with 7,122 inhabitants in 2010. It is also partly located in Kumla Municipality .
3-425: 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 Municipality . Hallsberg
6-505: Is famous for its huge classification yard and for the large train station . The reason for this is that railways (from practically all cardinal directions ) to and from Stockholm , Gothenburg , Mjölby , Örebro and Karlstad join here. Among the more important is the Västra stambanan ("western main line"). As the railways were built, Hallsberg grew up around it. A sight in the Hallsberg
9-594: Is the Bergööska House, built in the 1880s. It was drawn by the architect Ferdinand Boberg , and contains wall-paintings by Carl Larsson , depicting the Bergöö family and other well-known people of Hallsberg. The main industries are Volvo , Ahlsell, and enterprises related to the railway industry, like the freight operator Hector Rail . Sports equipment manufacturer Kosa is also situated here. Hallsberg has three twin towns . Sven Wingquist , co-founder of SKF in 1907,
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