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8 unusual facts about Norrköping


1989 Allsvenskan

The league was contested by 12 teams, with Malmö FF winning the league and IFK Norrköping winning the Swedish championship after the play-offs.

League runners-up IFK Norrköping won the competition and the Swedish championship after defeating Allsvenskan champions Malmö FF.

1990 Allsvenskan

Allsvenskan champions IFK Göteborg won the competition and the Swedish championship after defeating IFK Norrköping who finished as runners-up in the league.

Aby

The villages of Åby in Sweden and Aaby in Denmark have names of identical origin and meaning.

Frederica of Baden

In 1800, she was crowned in Norrköping, and in 1801, she received a visit from her parents.

Gus Lawson

Gus Lawson was born on April 3, 1882 in Norrköping, Sweden to Lars Gustaf Larsson (1847–c1940) and Emma Sofia Sundberg (1845–1888).

MS Mariella

In 1989, ahead of the delivery of the new MS Cinderella, SF Line considered moving Mariella on to a proposed express Helsinki–Norrköping service aimed at passengers travelling with their cars.

MS Viking Cinderella

SF Line originally planned the Cinderella to take over the Mariella's place in Helsinki–Stockholm traffic (the Mariella would have been placed on a new route from Helsinki to Norrköping).


Carl E. Wallin

parish on Vikbolandet east of Norrköping city in the province of Östergötland in Sweden in a large household with many siblings, a sister and four brothers and also some other children in the household within the family.

Ernest Thiel

Ernest Jacques Thiel (Norrköping 18 August 1859 – Stockholm 6 January 1947) was a Swedish financier and art collector whose former villa in the Stockholm park area Djurgården today houses the Thielska galleriet (the Thiel Gallery).

Martin Axenrot

In an interview, Martin said, "Rudiments and technique in general were encouraged by my drum teacher Stig Bendric, who played in the army and with the Norrköping Symphonic Orchestra. He was a huge Buddy Rich fan, and could play really impressive stuff. It made me appreciate the sense of swing when playing".

Mia Mäkilä

Mia Mäkilä a.k.a. Mia Makila (b. March 21, 1979 in Norrköping, Sweden) is a Swedish artist particularly known for her Boschian (Hieronymus Bosch) style in her mixed media works.

Nettbuss

Headquartered in Stenungsund, the company operates primarily in Southwestern Sweden in addition to Katrineholm and Norrköping.

Nils Gustaf Ekholm

From 1890 he worked as an assistant at the Swedish Meteorological Institute in Stockholm (one of the predecessor institutions of the current Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, SMHI, now located in Norrköping).

Sophia of Denmark

In 1283, the ex-queen gave her income in the fishing of Norrköping to the Saint Martin Abbey in Skänninge.

Vaggsång till Jesus

An early recording, entitled Vagggsång, was done by a choir consisting of 10-13 year olds on the av album Hela jorden sjunger by Immanuelskyrkan in Norrköping in 1976.


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