Hallstahammar

Hallstahammar is a locality and the seat of Hallstahammar Municipality in Västmanland County, Sweden with 10,478 population in 2010. The King Gustaf Vasa built Strömsholm Castle along the lake approximately 1558. Its modern-day appearance goes again to the 1680s. Today it hosts an thrilling museum. The city is located by means of the small river Kolbacksan. Along that river many industries had been mounted, and in 1628 the primary smithy changed into built. In 1795 the Stromsholm Canal changed into inaugurated which more suitable items transports. The city have become a centre for transportation and trade.

In the Thirties it became shaped as a standard Swedish business city with near ties to the engineering industry. From the 1970s on, however, that enterprise has regularly lost its sturdy importance. The Swedish soap opera Vänner och Fiender, which aired among 1996 and 2000, was recorded in the studio known as Hollyhammar. The local bus site visitors in Hallstahammar is freed from rate, considered one of only a few Swedish experiments with that sort of carrier.