Os is a small village that is part of Värnamo Municipality

Värnamo Municipality

Värnamo Municipality is a municipality in Jönköping County in southern Sweden, where the town Värnamo is seat.The municipality was created in 1971, when the City of Värnamo was amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipalities to form an entity of unitary type...

, in Småland

Småland

' is a historical province in southern Sweden.Småland borders Blekinge, Scania or Skåne, Halland, Västergötland, Östergötland and the island Öland in the Baltic Sea. The name Småland literally means Small Lands. . The latinized form Smolandia has been used in other languages...

 province of southern Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

. It is known for the Museum railway, a narrow gauge railway only 600 mm wide, that has steam trains. The railway was created in the summer of 1910.

Location and history

Os is situated by south tip of the lake Rusken, where also the historical Nydala Abbey

Nydala Abbey

Nydala Abbey was a cistercian monastery in the province of Småland, Sweden, near the lake of Rusken.Nydala was called Sancta Maria de Nova Valle or just Nova Vallis in Latin. It was founded together with Alvastra Abbey in 1147 as the first cistercian monasteries in Sweden...

is situated at the lake-shore.
The community is founded around a mill that produced energy for iron production from 1600. In 1893 it was converted to paper pulp factory, which operated until 1978. The old factory is now museum and the manor house is a tourist attraction. Since the paper mill closed to population is today down to around 100 persons. Many foreigners own former small residential houses in the area for vacation needs.

External links

• http://www.ohsabanan.com http://www.ohsabanan.com/
• http://www.ohsbruk.se/