Hallsberg

Hallsberg

Infobox Settlement
official_name = Hallsberg


image_caption = Hallsberg railway station
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = Sweden
subdivision_type1 = Municipality
subdivision_name1 = Hallsberg Municipality
and Kumla Municipalitycite web |title=Tätorter 2005 |publisher=Statistics Sweden |url=http://w41.scb.se/templates/Publikation____186288.asp |language=Swedish |accessdate=2008-05-15]
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Örebro County
subdivision_type3 = Province
subdivision_name3 = Närke
area_footnotes = cite web |title=Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km2 2000 och 2005 |publisher=Statistics Sweden |url=http://www.scb.se/statistik/MI/MI0810/2005A01B/T%E4torternami0810tab1.xls |format=xls |language=Swedish |accessdate=2008-05-15]
area_total_km2 = 7.94
population_as_of = 2005-12-31
population_footnotes =
population_total = 7,122
population_density_km2 = 897
timezone = CET
utc_offset = +1
timezone_DST = CEST
utc_offset_DST = +2
latd=59 |latm=04 |lats= |latNS=N
longd=15 |longm=07 |longs= |longEW=E
website =

Hallsberg is a town (pop. 7,200). in Närke, Sweden and the seat of Hallsberg Municipality, Örebro County.

This settlement grew up around a railway junction, and is now 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 in 1908. Since 1971 it is instead the seat of the enlarged Hallsberg Municipality.

Hallsberg 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 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, Ahlsells, and enterprises related to the railway industry.

Sven Wingquist, co-founder of SKF in 1907 was born in Hallsberg December 10, 1876.

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