Os (Sweden)
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| State : | Sweden | |||||
| Province (län): | Jönköpings län | |||||
| Historical Province (landskap): | Småland | |||||
| Municipality : | Värnamo | |||||
| Coordinates : | 57 ° 12 ' N , 14 ° 20' E | |||||
| SCB code : | S1755 | |||||
| Status: | Småort | |||||
| Residents : | 58 (December 31, 2015) | |||||
| Area : | 0.4 km² | |||||
| Population density : | 145 inhabitants / km² | |||||
Os - old and unofficial spelling Ohs - is a place ( Småort ) in the Swedish province of Jönköpings län and the historical province (Landskap) of Småland .
The place is located about twenty kilometers east of the main town of Värnamo and can be reached via the Länsväge F 707 and F 723. A narrow-gauge railway , the Ohsabana , which is only used for tourism , connects Os with the southwestern Bor .
Os is on the southern tip of Lake Rusken . The church of Os is part of Gällaryds församling .
history
The place was built around an ironworks in the 17th century. A sawmill and a sulphite factory followed later. The pulp mill secured the existence of the narrow-gauge railway until 1967. In 1978 the pulp mill was the last industrial company to cease production, so that the population shrank from 260 (1950) to 58 (2015).
Ohs bruk station
