Boxholm, Östergötland County, Östergötland Province, Sweden
🇸🇪 Boxholm is a locality and the seat of Boxholm Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden.
1Economy Steel production company Ovako has a production site in Boxholm with approximately 200 employees.
1Sport The following sports clubs are located in Boxholm: • Boxholms IF.
1History The earliest human traces are from the Stone Age, circa 8000 BC. From some later times, the Nordic Bronze Age, are several remains such as cists and gravefields. And from the Viking Age, ca 800–1,000 AD, are seven kept runestones.
After the christianisation of Sweden, churches were built in the 12th and 13th century, and several churches have their foundation from that time.
The name "Boxholm" is first to be found in the 16th century, as the name of a manor by Arvid Stenbock. Boxholm thus comes from "Bock's holm" (holm a modern Swedish and Old Norse word for islet).
An iron works was constructed in 1754, and a community grew up around it. The major expansion were however made in the 1850–1900.
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🇸🇪 Trollhättan 58.283
🇸🇪 Vänersborg 58.367
🇳🇴 Kristiansand 58.144
🇷🇺 Pesochnoye 58.05
🇷🇺 Staraya Russa 58
🇷🇺 Ust-Ilimsk 58
🇷🇺 Nizhny Tagil 57.908
🇮🇹 Ariano Irpino 15.083
🇵🇱 Krosno Odrzańskie 15.1
Locations Near: Boxholm 15.05,58.2
🇸🇪 Linköping 15.624,58.414 d: 41.1
🇸🇪 Jönköping 14.159,57.782 d: 70.2
🇸🇪 Örebro 15.222,59.279 d: 120.4
🇸🇪 Norrköping 16.188,58.587 d: 79
🇸🇪 Växjö 14.81,56.884 d: 147.1
🇸🇪 Kronoberg County 14.44,56.79 d: 161
🇸🇪 Eskilstuna 16.514,59.371 d: 155.1
🇸🇪 Karlstad 13.5,59.367 d: 157.5
Antipodal to: Boxholm -164.95,-58.2
🇹🇴 Nukuʻalofa -175.2,-21.133 d: 15811.2
🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 15811.3
🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 15320.3
🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 15107.8
🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 15048.9
🇺🇸 Pāhoa -154.946,19.494 d: 11326.7
🇺🇸 Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 11302.5
🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 11204.4
🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 11189.4