Hässleholm Municipality is a municipality

Municipalities of Sweden

The municipalities of Sweden are the local government entities of Sweden. The current 290 municipalities are organized into 21 counties...

 in Skåne County

Skåne County

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 in southern Sweden

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. Its seat is located in the city Hässleholm

Hässleholm

Hässleholm is a locality and the seat of Hässleholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 17,730 inhabitants in 2005.-Overview:Hässleholm was gradually developed from 1860 in connection with the construction of the main Stockholm to Malmö railway line. There was no settlement on the spot before...

.

The present municipality was created in 1974 when the former City of Hässleholm (itself incorporated in 1914) was amalgamated with seven surrounding municipalities. Back in 1863 there were twenty-nine local government units (all rural) in the area.

The municipal coat of arms was granted in 1920 and registered for the new municipality in 1974. The cross symbolizes the railway junction, which is the origin of the town Hässleholm. The hazelnuts allude to the name Hässleholm.

Localities

There are 17 urban area

Urban areas in Sweden

Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality. There are 1,940 localities in Sweden . They could be compared with census-designated places in the United States.A tätort in Sweden has a minimum of...

s (also called a Tätort or locality) in Hässleholm Municipality.

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

#	Locality	Population
1	Hässleholm Hässleholm Hässleholm is a locality and the seat of Hässleholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 17,730 inhabitants in 2005.-Overview:Hässleholm was gradually developed from 1860 in connection with the construction of the main Stockholm to Malmö railway line. There was no settlement on the spot before...	17,730
2	Tyringe Tyringe Tyringe is a locality situated in Hässleholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 4,573 inhabitants in 2005.Administratively the place was made a municipal community within the rural municipalities of Finja and Västra Torup in 1928...	4,573
3	Vinslöv Vinslöv Vinslöv is a locality situated in Hässleholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 3,865 inhabitants in 2005.In 1999, a documentary film portraying some of the town's inhabitants was produced. The documentary was called Plötsligt i Vinslöv .- References :...	3,865
4	Bjärnum Bjärnum Bjärnum is a locality situated in Hässleholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 2,643 inhabitants in 2005.-External links:*...	2,643
5	Sösdala Sösdala Sösdala is a locality situated in Hässleholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 1,785 inhabitants in 2005....	1,785
6	Vittsjö Vittsjö Vittsjö is a locality situated in Hässleholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 1,691 inhabitants in 2005.- History :Vittsjö municipality, located in Western District Göinge, then Kristianstad län, was extended in 1952 through the merger with Verum and Visseltofta municipalities.- Geography...	1,691
7	Hästveda Hästveda Hästveda is a locality situated in Hässleholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 1,682 inhabitants in 2005....	1,682
8	Tormestorp Tormestorp Tormestorp is a locality situated in Hässleholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 1,045 inhabitants in 2005....	1,045
9	Stoby Stoby Stoby is a locality situated in Hässleholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 736 inhabitants in 2005....	736
10	Sjörröd Sjörröd Sjörröd is a locality situated in Hässleholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 672 inhabitants in 2005....	672
11	Finja Finja Finja is a locality situated in Hässleholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 553 inhabitants in 2005....	553
12	Vankiva Vankiva Vankiva is a locality situated in Hässleholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 340 inhabitants in 2010....	363
13	Ballingslöv Ballingslöv Ballingslöv is a locality situated in Hässleholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 321 inhabitants in 2005....	321
14	Emmaljunga Emmaljunga Emmaljunga is a locality situated in Hässleholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 291 inhabitants in 2005. It lies on Highway 117 which connects it directly with Hässleholm in the south. The town was founded in 1925....	291
15	Röke Röke Röke is a locality situated in Hässleholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 243 inhabitants in 2005....	243
16	Mala Mala, Sweden Mala is a locality situated in Hässleholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 228 inhabitants in 2005....	228
17	Västra Torup Västra Torup Västra Torup is a locality situated in Hässleholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 210 inhabitants in 2005....	210

Industry

• Hässleholms Workshops
• Göinge Mechanical Workshop
• Hässleholms Brewery
• Hässleholms Kapsyl- och Stanniolfabrik
• Hässleholms Filfabrik

Twin towns

Darłowo, Poland

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 Eckernförde

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, Germany

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 Nykøbing-Rørvig

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, Denmark

Denmark

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Notable residents

• Bengt Bauler
• Johan T Karlsson
• Ida-Theres Nerell
• Pia Hansen
  Pia Hansen
  Pia Hansen is a Swedish sport shooter. She originally competed in Nordic Trap but then moved on to Olympic trap and double trap. She won the latter at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, and she also finished eighth in trap. In Athens four years later, she finished ninth in both events.- External links :*...
  
  
• Andreas Tilliander
  Andreas Tilliander
  Berndt Andreas Tilliander is a Swedish producer who significantly contributed to the evolution of the 'clicks & cuts' genre with his first albums 'Cliphop' and 'Ljud' . He has recorded several albums under just as many names and worked with some of Europe's influential electronic music labels...
  
  
• Grönwalls
• Andreas Dahl, football (soccer) player
• Jon Jönsson, football (soccer) player
• Ingrid Swede, film
• Jan Brink
• Åke "Kometen" Persson
• Jeanette Thelander
• Anders S. Nilsson

• Glenn Wish
• Martin Ingvarsson
  Martin Ingvarsson
  Martin Ingvarsson is a Swedish football referee. Ingvarsson currently resides in Hässleholm. He was a full international referee for FIFA between 1997 and 2010. He became a professional referee in 1984 and has been an Allsvenskan referee since 1993...
  
  
• Joddla med Siv
• Fredrik Ljungberg
  Fredrik Ljungberg
  Karl Fredrik "Freddie" Ljungberg is a Swedish footballer who currently plays as a right winger for Shimizu S-Pulse in Japan. Ljungberg was captain of the Swedish national team until he announced his international retirement after UEFA Euro 2008.Ljungberg was a model for Calvin Klein underwear...
  
  , footballer born in Vittsjö, but grew up in Halmstad
• Nilla Fischer
  Nilla Fischer
  Nilla Fischer is a female footballer for Linköping FC and the Swedish national team. She was previously the captain of LdB FC Malmö.-External links:* * *...
  
  , footballer
• Gustav Fridolin
  Gustav Fridolin
  Per Gustav Edvard Fridolin is a Swedish Green Party politician. He is a member of the Swedish parliament since the 2010 election, representing the Skåne County North and East constituency.- Biography :...
  
  , Sweden's youngest parliament member, now a journalist for Kalla Fakta
• Bildsköne Bengtsson
• Peps Persson
  Peps Persson
  Peps Persson is a Swedish blues and reggae musician from Tjörnarp, Scania. Throughout his career he has mostly made music in Swedish and is well known for his Scanian dialect...
  
  , musician
• KG Hammar, former archbishop
• Gunhild Sehlin

External links

• Hässleholm Municipality - Official site