Norrköping

Norrköping, the first manufacturing town of Sweden after Stockholm, stands at the head of the Bråvik, 113 miles by rail SW. of Stockholm, and is a well-built modern town. First founded in 1384, it has been several times destroyed by fire. The rapid river Motala, which connects Lake Vetter with the Bråvik, and which is spanned by several substantial bridges, affords considerable water-power, by which the numerous manufactories are worked. Here are cloth-mills, cotton spinning and weaving, manufactures of sugar, paper, tobacco, &c., and shipbuilding (gunboats, &c.). Here Charles IX. (1604) and Gustavus IV. (1800) were crowned. Pop. (1895) 34,825.