Listerlandet
Encyclopedia
Listerlandet is a peninsula in Sölvesborg Municipality
, Blekinge County
, Sweden
. The main settlement is Mjällby
.
to the south, west and east, and in north the sound known as Vesan
and the Pukavik channel. The sound was deep enough for sailing traffic up until the 18th Century. After this, the vegetation had taken over hand. The project to drain the area, to enable the farming to take over the land begun in the 1860s and was in function up until the 1870s, when the sea took over the land. The project was abandoned for the rest of the 19th century.
Remains of people have been found in Listerlandet (e.g. in Sandviken
and Siretorp dating back to the stone age
and the bronze age
.
Sölvesborg Municipality
Sölvesborg Municipality is a municipality in Blekinge County in southern Sweden. It borders to Bromölla Municipality, Olofström Municipality and Karlshamn Municipality...
, Blekinge County
Blekinge County
Blekinge County is a county or län in the south of Sweden. It borders the Counties of Skåne, Kronoberg, Kalmar and the Baltic Sea. The capital is Karlskrona...
, 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....
. The main settlement is Mjällby
Mjällby
Mjällby is a locality situated in Sölvesborg Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden with 1,272 inhabitants in 2005. It is located on the Listerlandet peninsula....
.
History
Listerlandet was originally in practice an island, surrounded by the Baltic SeaBaltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is a brackish mediterranean sea located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 20°E to 26°E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Danish islands. It drains into the Kattegat by way of the Øresund, the Great Belt and...
to the south, west and east, and in north the sound known as Vesan
Vesan
Lake Vesan: the lake system Vesan in Sölvesborg was from the beginning not a lake, but a strait up until the early 1920s. In the area between Ryssberget and Listerlandet, water from Hanöbukten flowed in and in effect cut of Listerlandet from the rest of the mainland. The sound was open to sail...
and the Pukavik channel. The sound was deep enough for sailing traffic up until the 18th Century. After this, the vegetation had taken over hand. The project to drain the area, to enable the farming to take over the land begun in the 1860s and was in function up until the 1870s, when the sea took over the land. The project was abandoned for the rest of the 19th century.
Remains of people have been found in Listerlandet (e.g. in Sandviken
Sandviken, Blekinge
Sandviken, together with the neighbouring town of Västra Näs, is one of the many minor communities and beaches of Sölvesborg in southeastern Sweden. Historically, this part of the Listerlandet was the first place to be inhabited, when the first settlers arrived to this part of Sweden in the Nordic...
and Siretorp dating back to the stone age
Stone Age
The Stone Age is a broad prehistoric period, lasting about 2.5 million years , during which humans and their predecessor species in the genus Homo, as well as the earlier partly contemporary genera Australopithecus and Paranthropus, widely used exclusively stone as their hard material in the...
and the bronze age
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a period characterized by the use of copper and its alloy bronze as the chief hard materials in the manufacture of some implements and weapons. Chronologically, it stands between the Stone Age and Iron Age...
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