The municipal arms depict a bridge over a river, and a water wheel symbolizing the mill.

The results of Sweden Democrats were not published by the SCB between 1988 and 1998 due to the party's small size nationally so has been denoted as "0.0".

IFÖ Sanitär was founded by William Abelgaard Nielsen in 1887 as a limestone and kaolin mining at the nearby Ivö island.

IFÖ Sanitär is, since 2002, owned by the Swedish venture capital company EQT AB.

More recent remains also attract visitors, among them old churches, mills and some other curiosities that have survived modernisation.