Trosa

Trosa is a town in the Swedish province of Södermanland County and the historic province of Södermanland.

The city is the capital of the homonymous municipality and lies at the mouth of the river Trosaån in the Baltic Sea. Trosa is also referred to as the " end of the world ", the origin of this epithet is unclear.

The city was at the beginning of the 15th century an important trading center and got in 1454 by King Charles VIII granted town rights. Due to the postglacial land uplift, the sea away and farther from the city center. Then the settlement from its original place at the country church of Trosa was moved to its present location. 1719 Trosa was burned down by a Russian fleet.

By the end of the 19th century Trosa was a fishing center. Thereafter, it was known more as a summer city and seaside resort. The new time was manifested with the construction of a society house. Here gathered the summer guests and organized parties and masquerade balls. Even today Trosa is due to the flat wooden houses and the river promenade, a popular destination for tourists and in summer there is a mass occurrences of small boats in the archipelago, which is upstream of the city. Trosa is the seat of the air filter manufacturer Camfil Farr.

Trosa has over the years attracted many artists and writers. The painter Reinhold Ljunggren spent about 30 years in the village and also the author Sven Delblanc and the romantics Erik Sjöberg, who is known to many only by his pseudonym " Vitalis ", lived here for some time.