Nyköping Municipality
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| Nyköpings kommun | |
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| County | Södermanland County |
| Province | Södermanland |
| Seat | Nyköping |
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| Population • Total |
44th of 290 50,191 inhabitants |
| Area • Total area • Land area • Water area |
70th of 290 1,562.75 km² 1,427.89 km² |
| Density • Total |
117th of 290 35.2 inhabitants/km² |
| Municipal code | {{{code}}} |
| Website | www.nykoping.se www.visitnykoping.se |
| Area & population from SCB as of December 31, 2006 | |
Nyköping Municipality (Nyköpings kommun) is a municipality in Södermanland County in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Nyköping.
The municipality was created in 1971 with the amalgamation of the City of Nyköping and a great number of other municipalities. It was split up in three parts in 1992, when Gnesta Municipality and Trosa Municipality were created.
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[edit] Industry
The municipality has 3,000 companies but more than 50% are sole traders. Only 80 have more than 25 employees; of those 33 have more than 50 employees.
A former military airfield in the municipality serves now as a civilian airport called Stockholm-Skavsta Airport.
[edit] Education
Nyköping is the site of the prestigious Tessin Gymnasium, a high school noted for the strength of its curricula in humanities, arts, and social studies.[1]
[edit] Tourist attraction
Nyköpinghus, a medieval castle, draws many thousands of tourists yearly, especially for its summer outdoor play, Nyköpings gästabud , dramatizing 14th-century events in which king Birger Magnusson and Queen Märta invited his two brothers Valdemar and Erik to the castle, ostensibly for a banquet of reconciliation after a civil war in which Valdemar and Erik had once imprisoned Birger. During the banquet at Nyköpingshus, Birger arrested Valdemar and Erik and committed them to the dungeon, where, according to legend, they starved to death. Shortly thereafter supporters of Valdemar and Erik forced Birger and Märta to flee to Denmark.[2]
[edit] Sister cities
The "Nordic sisters" were created following World War II. In chronological order:
- Nykøbing Falster, Denmark (1947)
- Iisalmi, Finland
- Notodden, Norway
- Lauf an der Pegnitz, Germany
- Salacgrīva, Latvia
- Vyborg, Russia
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[edit] External links
- Nyköping Municipality - Official site
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