About Kristinehamn

Kristinehamn …

• … has around 24,000 inhabitants.
• … covers an area of 1,384.43 square kilometers, nearly half of which is water.
• … was originally called Bro, as the road between Stockholm and Oslo passed here, and the bridge was crucial for crossing the Varnan waterway.
• … was granted city rights in 1642 and named Kristinehamn by Queen Kristina’s regency government. It is the only Swedish city named in her honor..
• … has Pablo Picasso’s first and largest sculpture by Lake Vänern, depicting his wife Jacqueline.
• … was, during the 1700s and 1800s, as important to the world economy as Wall Street is today, as the global price of iron was set here.
• … is located by Lake Vänern, the EU’s largest and Europe’s third largest lake, formed when the inland ice melted 10,000 years ago.
• … is the starting point of the Inland Railway (Inlandsbanan), which ends in Gällivare.
• … offers Lake Vänern’s best trolling fishing and beautiful archipelago nature with 1485 islands where you can spot sea eagles.
• … is a major producer of propulsion systems, with Kongsberg Maritime having manufactured and delivered over 8,000 systems to ships around the world.
• … is a leader in groundbreaking technology for future cancer treatments, as Atley Solutions both develops and manufactures its products here.
• … is Sweden’s market leader in baking molds. Nearly everything used by Swedish bakeries is produced here at Siluette of Sweden.

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