Älmhult

Älmhult is a town in Småland in southern Sweden. The town has about 9,000 inhabitants, with a total of 15,000 in the municipality.

Understand
Älmhult was not more than a farming hamlet until 1862, when the Stockholm-Malmö railroad was built. The town has two claims for fame. Firstly, Carl Linnaeus, founder of systematic biology, was born on a farm near Älmhult (Linnaeus' Råshult) in 1707. Secondly, Älmhult is the spiritual home the furniture chain IKEA, the founder Ingvar Kamprad was born nearby in 1926 and in 1958 the first IKEA store opened here. IKEA maintains a strong presence in town. Älmhult has since long been associated with entrepreneurship and has an unusually high number of small businesses.

Get in
While Älmhult is along the main railway between Stockholm and Malmö, only two to three high speed trains per day stops here with others requiring a change in Alvesta. Regional services such as Krösatågen and Öresundståg call here, bringing direct trains from Malmö, Kalmar, Växjö and even Copenhagen. is centrally located.

Älmhult is along road Riksväg 23 between Malmö and Växjö, note that this road is smaller then main highways.

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 * Växjö is the seat of the local county and bishopric.