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Degerfors

Field	Value
official_name	Degerfors
image_skyline	Degerfors.jpg
image_caption	Degerfors Church, Degernäs Manor, Stora Valla and the Degerfors Works
pushpin_map	Sweden Örebro#Sweden
settlement_type	Locality
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name
subdivision_type3	Municipality
subdivision_name3	Degerfors Municipality
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Örebro County
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Värmland
area_footnotes
area_total_km2	7.14
population_as_of	31 December 2010
population_footnotes
population_total	7,160
population_density_km2	1003
timezone	CET
utc_offset	+1
timezone_DST	CEST
utc_offset_DST	+2
coordinates

Degerfors () is a locality and the seat of Degerfors Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden, with 7,160 inhabitants in 2010. Degerfors is the sixth-largest city in Örebro County. It is located at the southern shore of lake Möckeln, 13 km (8 mi) south of neighboring Karlskoga.

Degerfors evolved around the ironworks, that is nowadays owned by the Finnish conglomerate Outokumpu Oyj. It is also home to the football club Degerfors IF, which is playing in the first tier of Swedish football, Allsvenskan.

History

Degerfors has traditionally been an industrial community closely connected to the large ironworks, associated with members of the Camitz family. The settlement (originally called Johannelund) grew up around this industry and got the status of a municipalsamhälle (a type of borough within a municipality) in 1912. Today it acts as seat of the larger Degerfors Municipality.

In the 1870s, a group of people native to the Degerfors-area emigrated to the Ural region (then part of the Russian Empire).

Economy

The steelworks is now owned by the Finnish conglomerate Outokumpu Oyj.

The location has a railway station and a narrow-gauge railway connecting it with Bredsjö, the .

Tourists to the region usually stop at the Sveafallen nature reserve.

Sveafallen

Degesfors is the site of Sveafallen, a geological landscape of small canyons and giant's kettles. Immediately south of Degerfors lies the nature reserve of Sveafallen. The reserve contains a series of small canyons as well as numerous and large giant's kettles. The site was initially proposed to be the dry remnant of a dramatic river or waterfall comparable to Niagara Falls. Research by Curt Fredén cast well founded doubts on this view, Sveafallen is now believed to have formed by meltwater streams under the Fennoscandian ice sheet.

Sports

Nationally, Degerfors is best known for the football team Degerfors IF. Despite the relatively small size of the town, Degerfors has always had strong local support, and played a total of 29 years in the highest division Allsvenskan. In 1997 the team were relegated and were playing in the second highest Swedish league, Superettan until they achieved promotion back to Allsvenskan (highest Swedish league) in 2020.

Another sports club located in Degerfors is Strömtorps IK.

References

(14 December 2011). "Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km² 2005 och 2010". [[Statistics Sweden]].
(1979). "Svenska ortnamn med uttalsuppgifter".
Olsson, Kenth. (14 March 2001). "De utvandrade till Ryssland".
"Degerfors Long Products". Outokumpu.
"Sveafallen".
(1995). "A review of the history of the Baltic Sea, 13.0-8.0 ka BP". [[Quaternary International]].

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