Karlskoga

Karlskoga is a locality and the seat of Karlskoga Municipality in Orebro County, Sweden with 27,084 population in 2010. The parish of Karlskoga changed into hooked up in 1586 and a wooden church turned into soon constructed. In the seventeenth century fourteen small iron works and 8 waterdriven hammers for bar iron were mounted. Most of these have been still operating inside the 1860s, but the dominating iron works became the only in close by Bofors. In 1871, Bofors produced 6,124 metric heaps of iron, extra than any other plant in Sweden. In 1882, Karlskoga parish had 11,184 population.

The town of Karlskoga has advanced around Bofors, which in overdue nineteenth century transformed from iron works to a producer of cannon and inside the twentieth century a more diverse protection industry. The most well-known owner of Bofors was Alfred Nobel who owned the organisation from 1894 till his dying in December 1896. He had the key position in reshaping the iron producer to a current cannon producer and chemical enterprise. During the summers of 1894–1896 he additionally lived within the manor residence Bjorkborn.