Köping, Sweden

Köpings is a place ( tätort ) in the Swedish province of Västmanland County and in the historical province of Västmanland. The place is also the capital of the municipality of the same name.

1474 was granted the city rights Köpings. Just outside the resort, the Swedish national anthem was gamla you, you fria by Richard Dybeck written. Today Köpings is an industrial town in which, inter alia, Volvo have, Hastens sängar, Getrag and GKN Driveline production.

In Köpings tungstic acid was by Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1781 first isolated.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Gunilla Bandolin (born 1954 ), sculptor, ceramicist and garden and landscape architect
• Leif Bergson (* December 15, 1927, † 6 November 1999 ), Classical philologist
• Ronnie Bathman ( born April 24, 1959), former tennis player
• Leif Eriksson ( born March 20, 1942), former football and Bandyspieler
• Johan Gustafsson ( born February 28, 1992), ice hockey goaltender
• Karl Gustafsson ( born September 16, 1888 † February 20, 1960 ), football player
• Anna Haag (born 1 June 1986), cross-country skier
• Carl Wilhelm Scheele ( born December 19, 1742 † May 21, 1786 ), German - Swedish pharmacist and chemist
• Henrik Sjögren ( born July 23, 1899 † 17 September 1986), ophthalmologist
• Tobias Robert Thalén ( born December 28, 1827 † July 27, 1905 ), Professor of Physics at the University of Stockholm

Swell

Tätorter: Köpings | Kolsva | Munktorp

Småorter: Kindbro | Kölsta | Malmön

• Location in Västmanland County
• Community Köpings