Misplaced Pages

Möckeln

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.

Karlskoga Municipality ( Karlskoga kommun ) is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden . Its seat is located in the city of Karlskoga . Other localities include Valåsen och Labbsand , Kortfors , Linnebäck and Villingsberg .

#369630

4-627: Möckeln is a lake in Karlskoga and Degerfors Municipalities in Örebro County , Sweden . Except for the settlements surrounding the lake, Degernäs Manor is situated at the southernmost tip of the lake and Valåsen Manor just north of the Valåsen and Labbsand -settlement, overlooking the northeastern parts of the lake. Species of Zander ( Sander lucioperca ), European perch ( Perca fluviatilis ) and Northern pike ( Esox lucius ) are most frequently fished here. Möckeln lake formed in place of

8-473: A meteorite impact crater. Geological surveys in 2011 led by the geophysicist Herbert Henkel, formerly active at the Royal Institute of Technology , established that Möckeln lake northern end towards Karlskoga is a degraded meteorite impact crater with an original diameter of about 4.5 km. The meteorite that crashed is estimated to have a diameter of no more than a couple of hundred meters. The crater formation

12-516: Is lowered about 400 meters below the then ground surface and is now about 3 km in diameter. The crater has been deformed somewhat by the excess of a heavy rocks at the east of the lake and it is also affected by erosion. Other examples of known impact craters in Sweden are Siljan Ring , Dellen and Mien . Karlskoga Municipality Karlskoga was formed as rural municipality when the first Swedish local government acts came into force in 1863. In 1925

16-508: The southern part was detached, forming Degerfors Municipality . In 1940 the whole municipality, including its non-urban areas, got the title of a city . These titles were abolished in 1971. This is a demographic table based on Karlskoga Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT 's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics. In total there were 30,389 residents, including 23,534 Swedish citizens of voting age. 49.1% voted for

#369630