- Hallstahammar Municipality
Infobox_Kommun2
fullname=Hallstahammars kommun
county=Västmanland County
province=Västmanland
capital=Hallstahammar
arearank=258th
area=181.88
arealand=171.09
populationrank=147th
population=15,042
densityrank=56th
populationdensity=87.9
website=http://www.hallstahammar.se/
footnotes=Area & population from SCB as ofDecember 31 ,2006 Hallstahammar Municipality ("Hallstahammars kommun") is a municipality in
Västmanland County in centralSweden . Its seat is located in the town ofHallstahammar .In 1971 "old" Hallstahammar (with the status of a "
köping " since 1943) was amalgamated with parts of the dissolved "Kolbäck" rural municipality to form the present municipality of unitary type.The municipal slogan is "Bo hos oss/Live with us", which reflects the ambition of the present municipal leadership to boost population figures.
Geography
The municipality is subdivided into two parishes: Hallstahammar-Berg and Kolbäck-Säby. They are distinctive from each other: Hallstahammar-Berg in the north is situated along forest lands; Kolbäck-Säby in the south is a centre of communications by roads and railways as well as the intersecting river. Strömsholm, in the southern part of Kolbäck, borders to Lake
Mälaren and has open fields around its Royal Castle.Communications
With train it takes less than 15 minutes to central
Västerås (a larger city), and about an hour to the Central Station ofStockholm . It is also possible to travel straight south, passing the bridge over LakeMälaren to the larger cityEskilstuna . Good car transport is provided byEuropean route E18 that passes between Kolbäck and Hallstahammar.Notability
One of Sweden's foremost riding gymnasiums is located in Strömsholm, as part of the
Kantzowska Gymnasium . The Church of Kolbäck goes back to the 13th century and has interior decorations paid for by Queen Hedvig Eleonora in the 17th century. The Church of Säby was beautifully restored in the 1630s.External links
* [http://www.hallstahammar.se Hallstahammar Municipality] - Official site
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