Surahammar

	Surahammar
	Surahammar
State :	Sweden
Province (län):	Västmanland County
Historical Province (landskap):	Vastmanland
Municipality :	Surahammar
Coordinates :	59 ° 43 ' N , 16 ° 13' E Coordinates: 59 ° 43 ' N , 16 ° 13' E
SCB code :	6332
Status:	Crime scene
Residents :	6270 (December 31, 2015)
Area :	4.97 km²
Population density :	1262 inhabitants / km²
	List of perpetrators in Västmanland County

Surahammar is a place ( tätort ) in the Swedish province County Västmanland and the historical province Västmanland .

It is the capital of the municipality of the same name . The place name Sura - (sour) hammar (hammer) refers to the iron processing factories that shaped the place for many years.

history

The place was formed on the Kolbäcksån river as a center for processing iron ore from nearby Norberg . Until the end of the 17th century there was only a small hammer mill, which was slightly expanded in the following century. The real boom came in 1845 with the takeover by the goldsmith E. A. Zethelius from Stockholm . This development was accelerated in 1872 when the joint stock company Surahammars bruks AB was founded. Several blast furnaces , rolling mills and forges were built , which, among other things, manufactured products for the Swedish railway industry.

In 1916 the company had about 1,350 employees and produced products for a total of 9.55 million Swedish kronor. The castle-like main building of the company was built on an island in Kolbäcksån. The construction of the Stockholm - Västerås - Bergslagen railway , which was connected to the company's own narrow - gauge railway , the Lisjöbanan , ensured the positive development of the place .

literature

Surahammar . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 27 : Stockholm-Nynäs järnväg – Syrsor . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1918, Sp. 768 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Statistiska centralbyrån : Land area per Tatort, folkmängd and invånare per square kilometer. Vart femte år 1960 - 2015 (database query)

[scb_aktuell-1] Statistiska centralbyrån : Land area per Tatort, folkmängd and invånare per square kilometer. Vart femte år 1960 - 2015 (database query)