Nässjö

For many years, Nässjö was a rural village with agriculture as the dominant occupation. The turning point was the construction of the Swedish railway system. The southern main line railway, finished in 1864, passed through Nässjö. Later, other railways were inaugurated, whereby Nässjö, due to its geographical location in the country, became an important junction. A line to Katrineholm was opened in 1874, and that year also the opening of the Oskarshamn line; the one to Halmstad in 1882; to Kalmar in 1914. Today, Nässjö is the only Swedish junction where railways in six different directions meet.

Image:Swedish Windsor Chairs.jpg

As a result, industries moved to Nässjö, and the population increased. The most important industries were wood industries due to the forest covered Småland province area, at a time when it had become possible to factory manufacture the wooden chair (a.k.a. Windsor chair). Nässjö attempted to get a charter, which was granted in 1914, making it one of the now defunct Cities of Sweden. It is since 1971 instead the seat of the much larger Nässjö Municipality.

Its population continued to increase throughout the 20th century. In the 1940s production of electrical installation equipment began, and the industry Eldon AB was for a long time the largest industry of the town.

The rock band Backyard Babies and metal band Kongh hail from Nässjö. The head of the largest ponzi scheme in the Nordic countries, Winclub/Wincapita, Mr Hannu Kailajärvi was arrested in Nässjö on December 10, 2008, after reportedly having lived there for some time.

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|location = Nässjö 1961-1990

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|metric first = Yes

|single line = Yes

|Jan high C = -1.4

|Feb high C = -1.2

|Mar high C = 3.8

|Apr high C = 8.6

|May high C = 15.2

|Jun high C = 19.0

|Jul high C = 20.1

|Aug high C = 19.1

|Sep high C = 14.5

|Oct high C = 9.3

|Nov high C = 3.4

|Dec high C = -0.2

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|Jan mean C = -3.9

|Feb mean C = -4.0

|Mar mean C = -1.1

|Apr mean C = 3.2

|May mean C = 9.1

|Jun mean C = 13.3

|Jul mean C = 14.4

|Aug mean C = 13.6

|Sep mean C = 9.7

|Oct mean C = 5.8

|Nov mean C = 1.0

|Dec mean C = -2.4

|Jan low C = -6.4

|Feb low C = -6.8

|Mar low C = -6.0

|Apr low C = -2.2

|May low C = 2.9

|Jun low C = 7.5

|Jul low C = 8.7

|Aug low C = 8.2

|Sep low C = 4.9

|Oct low C = 2.2

|Nov low C = -1.6

|Dec low C = -4.7

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|source 1 = SMHI Open Data{{cite web

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| title=Precitipation Normals 1961–1990

| publisher =Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute | language = sv}}

|source 2 = SMHI Monthly Data 2002–2018{{cite web

| url=http://www.smhi.se/klimatdata/meteorologi/temperatur/2.1240

| title=Yearly and Monthly Statistics

| publisher = Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute| date= 8 April 2019|language =sv}}

|date=April 2019}}

Nässjö Motorstadion is a motorcycle speedway and flat track speedway venue located on the south west edge of the locality on Skogsvallen.{{cite web |url=https://nassjo.se/download/18.6c36bb3c1837db1a67e2aa9/1664456832830/Samr%C3%A5dsredog%C3%B6relse%20%C3%96P%20N%C3%A4ssj%C3%B6%20kommun.pdf |title=Översiktsplan Samrådsredogörelse |website=Nässjö Kommun |access-date=8 February 2024}}{{cite web |url=http://www.speedwayplus.com/Nassjo.shtml |title=Nassjo - Sweden |website=Speedway Plus |access-date=8 February 2024}} The stadium hosts the NK Nässjö speedway team{{cite web |url=https://www.nassjospeedway.nu/ |title=Nassjo SpeedwayKlubb |website=NK Nässjö |access-date=8 February 2024}} that has competed in the Swedish Speedway Team Championship and won the second division in 1997.{{cite web |url=http://www.historyspeedway.nstrefa.pl/dmszwecji.php |title=HISTORICAL RESULTS 1948-2015 |website=Speedway History |access-date=30 November 2023}} The facility has hosted important events, including qualifying rounds of the Speedway World Championship in 1983, 1986 and 1991.{{cite web |url=https://dlprezes.pl.tl/SPEEDWAY--_--Indywidualne-mistrzostwa-%26%23346%3Bwiata-----------k1-World-Speedway-Championship-k2-.htm |title=World Championship |website=Metal Speedway |access-date=8 February 2024}}{{cite web |url=http://www.speedway.org/history/ |title=World Championship | website=Speedway.org |access-date=8 February 2024}}

Image:Nässjö järnvägsstation, den 23 april 2007, bild 1.jpg|Nässjö Railway Station

Image:Stadshuset i Nässjö, den 20 maj 2007.jpg|Nässjö City Hall

Image:Kulturhuset i Nässjö, den 20 maj 2007, bild 2.jpg|The House of Culture

Image:Nässjö kyrka, den 20 maj 2007, bild 1.jpg|Nässjö Church

Image:nassjo_fran_vattentorn.jpeg|View of Nässjö from the water tower

Image:StinsenArena.jpg|Stinsen Arena, bandy venue

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