Malmköping


Malmköping is a locality situated in Flen Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 2 180 inhabitants in 2020.
Malmköping is located about 15 kilometers north-east of the municipal seat Flen. It is a tourist attraction due to its many annual markets. The traditions of markets in Malmköping goes back more than two centuries, as Malmköping got market town rights in 1785.
In the center of Malmköping there is a ski slope located, also known as Malmabacken which was established in 1965.
There is also a museum tramway in Malmköping, the, which runs heritage trams from most of the Swedish tramway systems.
Olympian Helge Meuller was born here.

In literature

Jonas Jonasson's 2009 novel The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared opens in Malmköping. The movie, however, is recorded in Munkedal, Bohuslän.