A little village in the municipality of Flen. Centrally situated 15 km from Flen, 32 Km from Eskilstuna and 40 Km from Katrineholm.
This village, 150km from Stockholm has been a hive of industry until the beginning of the 1990's when the foundry that the village was built around was closed after 350 years (Grounded 1659). Nowadays the Foundry is a cultural centre and once again a hive of activity, check them out.
The foundry began as a cannon workshop, cannons were made and exported from here to the Swedish army in Europe. In the beginning of the 20th century the foundry started going over to civil production, making radiators and stoves. Between 1920 and 1980 the main products were pipes and other plumbing accessories.
During their high life in the sixties there were over 1000 employees at the foundry and a few hundred people employed with subsidirial work round and about the foundry.
