Mölndal travel guide

Mölndal Municipality (Mölndals kommun) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County, in western Sweden, just south of Gothenburg. Large parts of the municipality are within the Gothenburg urban area and the whole municipality is part of Metropolitan Gothenburg.
In 1911 a municipalsamhälle (a kind of borough within a rural municipality, handling matters of urban character) named Mölndal was institued in the municipality of Fässberg. Fässberg was 1922 made the City of Mölndal. In 1971 it was amalgamated with Kållered and Lindome (the latter transferred from Halland County). At the same time it became a municipality of unitary type, like all others in the country. The municipality prefers, however, to style itself Mölndals stad (City of Mölndal) as a semi-official name whenever legally possible. (...) more....