Kumla

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Field	Value
official_name	Kumla
image_skyline	Kumla station 1.jpg
image_caption	Kumla Train Station
pushpin_map	Sweden Örebro#Sweden
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Sweden
subdivision_type3	Municipality
subdivision_name3	Kumla Municipality
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Örebro County
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Närke
area_footnotes
area_total_km2	7.79
population_as_of	31 December 2018
population_footnotes
population_total	21,640
population_density_km2	1806
timezone	CET
utc_offset	+1
timezone_DST	CEST
utc_offset_DST	+2
coordinates
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Geography

Kumla is situated roughly 15 kilometres south of neighbouring city Örebro, and is connected to its much larger neighbour with train and bus commuting. Kumla is unusual in terms of municipality seats in Svealand in that there is no connection to any kind of waterway in the centre of the town. However, three of the four biggest lakes in the country are within an hour's drive from the town. It is also an unusually flat town, since it is situated in the middle of the so-called Närke Plain. There is also a very agrarian landscape surrounding Kumla.

Transport

Kumla is linked with several roads, including the highway E20 that is passing just west of the locality. The E20 is the fastest route to both Gothenburg and Stockholm, which Kumla is situated relatively close to the middle between the two largest Swedish cities. E20 passes Örebro as well, but there are several routes which go to the larger neighbour city from Kumla. The roads 51 (from Norrköping) and 52 (from Nyköping) also pass through Kumla.

Kumla also has a train station on the Stockholm-Gothenburg route driven by SJ.

History

Kumla was known as a shoe manufacturing town since the first half of the 19th century. This history is memorialized in Kumla's Shoe Industry Museum, with a small-scale production of shoes.

Kumla got the title of a city in 1942, but is since 1971 the seat of the larger Kumla Municipality.

Today

Today the industry is dominated by the manufacturing of jam at and communication systems at an Ericsson industry.

The name Kumla is renowned for its prison ("the Kumla Institution", or Kumlaanstalten, commonly known as 'The Bunker'), which is the largest prison in the country. Opened in 1965, it can currently allow 333 male inmates, with a similarly large staff, and is designated for "difficult" inmates and for those at the start of a life-term sentence. It is one of three Swedish prisons housing the most notorious and dangerous inmates.

File:Kumla view cirka 1920.jpg|In 1920, Kumla was still a small town File:Kent Karlsson Absit Omen.JPG|"Absit Omen" artwork by Swedish artist Kent Karlsson placed on the permanent exhibition "Konst på hög" in Kumla File:Richard Brixel Karyatid.JPG|"Karyatid" by Richard Brixel, at the same exhibition

Notable people

Hampus Ericsson (2003–), racing driver
Marcus Ericsson (1990–), racing driver, 2022 Indy 500 winner
Pierre Bengtsson (1988–), association football player
Fredrik Ekblom (1970–), racing driver
Håkan Nesser (1950–), author
Peter Stormare (1953–), actor, born in Kumla but grew up in Arbrå

References

"Kommuner i siffror - tabeller och fördjupning". [[Statistics Sweden]].

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