Ã…seda

Åseda is a locality ( Tätort ) in the Swedish province of Blekinge County, capital of the province Uppvidinge.

First, there was only one church, whose origins lie in the 12th century. The name of the place, which is first documented in 1345 in a font, changed over the centuries of Aseda on Aaseda, Oseda and Åsheda to the present name.

The actual place is still very young and has its development thanks to a railway junction where the route Nässjö - Sävsjöström - Nybro crosses the narrow gauge railway Vaxjo Klaveström - Viserum - Hultsfred. In its heyday, the town had about 100 employees at the railway. Gradually at node created various operations, such as a dairy farm that was shut down in 2004, several carpenters and other wood-processing industries. Another planned narrow- gauge railway from Mönsterås was completed only until Tracklights, but contributed to decommissioning the name Mönsterås - Åseda line.

In recent times, most of tracks disappeared. The southern route to Nybro was demolished in the 1990s, the southwestern branch to Vaxjo was dismantled in 2001 and the setting of the northern line to Nässjö was 2002. Nowadays only done a sporadic use of the narrow -gauge railway to Hultsfred.

Åseda had from 1910 as Municipalsamhälle administrative tasks and in 1942 the market town ( Köpings ). Since 1971 Åseda is the capital of the municipality Uppvidinge, but different offices are located in the places Lenhovda and Älghult.