Timmernabben

Timmernabben is a locality situated in Mönsterås Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden with 1,476 inhabitants in 2022. Nowadays it is mainly a commuter village on the Baltic coast with hardly any own industry or service. The only exceptions are the burnt almond workshop Råsnäs Konfektyrer, the fish smokery Nabbens Rökeri & Fisk, and the ceramics factory Gabriel Keramik.

Key facts

Settlement.official_name: Timmernabben
Settlement.image_skyline: Timmernabben.jpg
Settlement.pushpin_map: Sweden Kalmar#Sweden
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Sweden
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Mönsterås Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_type2: County
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Kalmar County
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Småland
Settlement.area_total_km2: 1.49
Settlement.population_as_of: 31 December 2010
Settlement.population_total: 1,276
Settlement.population_density_km2: 858
Settlement.timezone: CET
Settlement.utc_offset: +1
Settlement.timezone_DST: CEST

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The village has a history as a shipping harbor for timber, which has given the name to this settlement: "the peninsula where they ship timber". This activity started in the 1680s and went on to the early 1900s. Shipyards were a related industry that started in the 1840s, 10 years later the small village had three shipping wharves where brigs were built. The Swedish merchant fleet had about 70 ships built in Timmernabben between 1850 and 1900. When steel hulls became commonplace and ships became bigger, the shipping industry vanished as quickly as it had been developed six decades earlier.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Timmernabben” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.