Trosa

This article covers the town of Trosa; for the Swedish municipality of Trosa see Trosa (municipality) .

Trosa
Trosa
State :	Sweden
Province  (län):	Södermanland County
Historical Province (landskap):	Södermanland
Municipality  :	Trosa
Coordinates :	58 ° 54 '  N , 17 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 58 ° 54 '  N , 17 ° 33'  E
SCB code :	0884
Status:	Crime scene
Residents :	5836 (December 31, 2015)
Area :	6.1 km²
Population density :	957 inhabitants / km²
List of perpetrators in Södermanland County

Trosa is a city in the Swedish province of Södermanland County and the historic province of Södermanland .

The city is the capital of the municipality of the same name and is located at the mouth of the Trosaån River in the Baltic Sea . Trosa is also known as the "end of the world", although the origin of this epithet is unclear.

The city was already an important trading center at the beginning of the 15th century and was granted city rights by King Charles VIII in 1454 . Due to the postglacial land elevation , the sea moved further and further from the city center. As a result, the settlement was moved from its original location by the Trosa country church to its current location. In 1719 Trosa was burned down by a Russian fleet.

Trosa

Trosa's old town with many wooden houses

The wooden town hall of Trosa

Trosa was a center of fishing until the end of the 19th century. After that it became known more and more as a summer town and seaside resort. The new era was manifested with the construction of a society house. Summer guests gathered here and organized parties and masked balls. Even today, Trosa is a popular destination for tourists due to the flat wooden houses and the river promenade, and in summer there is a large number of small boats in the archipelago in front of the city. Trosa is the headquarters of the air filter manufacturer Camfil Farr .

Trosa has attracted many artists and writers over the years. The painter Reinhold Ljunggren spent about 30 years in the village and the author Sven Delblanc and the romantic Erik Sjöberg , who is known to many only by his pseudonym "Vitalis", also lived here for a long time.

Web links

Commons : Trosa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

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