Tidaholm

Tidaholm (pronunciation) is a locality and the seat of Tidaholm Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden, with 8,027 inhabitants in 2010.[1]

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Tidaholm
The hotel in Tidaholm.
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Coordinates: 58°11′N 13°57′E
Country	Sweden
Province	Västergötland
County	Västra Götaland County
Municipality	Tidaholm Municipality
Area [1]
• Total	5.70 km^2 (2.20 sq mi)
Population  (31 December 2010)[1]
• Total	8,027
• Density	1,408/km^2 (3,650/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Climate	Dfb

History

Early Tidaholm was primarily agricultural. An ironworks factory was established in 1799 at the site of the Holmagarden forge. The ironworks were replaced in 1868 by a match factory. The Vulcan match factory eventually became the largest in the world. Today, the Lithographic Art Workshop in Tidaholm is in the former factory and carries on Tidaholm's tradition of the lithographic arts that began with designers of matchbox labels.

Tidaholm was detached from Baltak parish as a merchant town (köping) in 1895 and was made a city in 1910. It has been the seat of the much larger Tidaholm Municipality since 1974. Tidaholm is, despite its small population, for historical reasons normally still referred to as a city. Statistics Sweden, however, only counts localities with more than 10,000 inhabitants as cities.

Culture

The Tidaholm Museum houses various exhibitions. There is an art gallery at the Turbinhusön open in the summer and close to Hellidens folkhögskola you will find Sweden's only Lithographic Museum

References

1. "Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km² 2005 och 2010" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 14 December 2011. Archived from the original on 27 January 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2012.