Ludvika Municipality

Ludvika is a municipality (Swedish kommun ) in the Swedish province of Dalarna County and Dalarna. The main town of the municipality is Ludvika.

  • 2.1 Twin towns

Geography

In the municipality there are hål the lake and the marsh Väsman Brittas; near the place itself is Saxdalen the mountain Saxberget, in which Långfallsgruvan, a Sulfiderzmine located.

Places

Localities ( tätorter ) in the municipality are:

  • Blötberget
  • Fredrik Berg
  • Gonäs
  • Grangärde
  • Grängesberg
  • Håksberg
  • Ludvika
  • Nyhammar
  • Persbo
  • Saxdalen
  • Sunnansjö
  • Sörvik

Smaller towns ( småorter ) are Ickorrbotten, Järnsta, Klenshyttan, Norhyttan, Norrbo, Saxhyttan and Skeppmora.

Policy

The municipal council ( kommunfullmäktige ) (. Mandate period November 1 2006-31 October 2010) has 45 seats:

(Source)

(. Mandate period January 1 2007-31 December 2010) The 15 seats in the municipal executive board ( kommunstyrelsen ) distributed as follows:

(Source)

The Social Democratic Party Sveriges socialdemokratiska arbetareparti has in the council of Ludvika and also in the parish council the most seats. The second strongest party is the Moderate Party with seven seats in the City Council and two seats on the town council. Bopartiet is acting exclusively at the local level party, which has existed since 1985. Folkkampanjen promote sjukvården (People's Campaign for Nursing ) is a new grouping.

Mayoress is Maria Pettersson ( Socialdemokraterna ).

Twin Cities

In addition, Ludvika, together with the other municipalities in Dalarna County verschwisterte a so-called " neighboring province ", the circle Viljandi in Estonia.

Economy

In 2003, 32 percent of employees worked in production ( 3,811 persons). The second most important industry was the sector of care and maintenance, in which 18 per cent were working in 2003, followed by trade and communication with 12 percent.

The eleven largest employers in the community are:

(2004, source)

Attractions

  • In the town of Ludvika, there are some places of interest ( see section there).
  • In place Grängesberg is the Konzerthaus Cassels donation.
  • Charcoal stove in Klenshyttan from the 17th century between the villages of Ludvika and Grängesberg.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Viking Olov Björk (1918-2009), pioneer of thoracic surgery, co-developer of the heart -lung machine
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