Eslöv Municipality () is one of 290

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, situated in

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in southern

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. Its seat is located in the city of

Eslöv Eslöv (;) is a town and the seat of Eslöv Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 19,598 inhabitants as of 2018. Eslöv is part of the Öresund Region, and the Malmö Metropolitan Area. History According to a map from 1717, Eslöv village ...

. The present municipality was created in 1971, when the former ''City of Eslöv'' was amalgamated with a number of surrounding municipalities, most of them created by the earlier nationwide local government reform in 1952. The municipality has several interesting places. There are 11 castles. Hjularöd's castle was the setting of the Swedish TV classic ''Mystery of Greveholm'' broadcast by SVT. In the Västra Strö village by the church there is an ancient monument consisting of five

standing stones A menhir (; from Brittonic languages: ''maen'' or ''men'', "stone" and ''hir'' or ''hîr'', "long"), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large upright stone, emplaced in the ground by humans, typically dating from the European middle Br ...

and two runestones DR 334 and DR 335 dating from about the year 1000. Sweden's only sugar refinery lies in Örtofta, south of Eslöv. In Eslöv there are two nature reserves, Allmänningen and Abullahagen. The Stone Mountain, Eslöv Church and Hotel Sten Stensson Sten with the locally famous "Scanish Steps" lie in the middle of Eslöv. Maybe the most famous inhabitant of Eslöv is the comedian

Johan Glans Johan Magnus Glans (born 9 April 1974 in Eslöv, Sweden) is a Swedish stand up comedian and actor. He started doing stand up comedy in 1994, and has worked on Sveriges Television, Swedish TV with David Batra. Since 2016, Johan Glans has starred a ...

, who has made several TV series and is well known throughout the country.

Localities

There are 13

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in the municipality. As of 2015, they were:

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Eslöv Municipality's electoral districts in the

2022 Swedish general election General elections were held in Sweden on 11 September 2022 to elect the 349 members of the Riksdag who in turn elected the Prime Minister of Sweden. Under the constitution, regional and municipal elections were also held on the same day. The pr ...

sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics. In total there were 34,522 residents, including 24,959 Swedish citizens of voting age. 41.7% voted for the left coalition and 56.7% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Twin towns - Sister cities

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Gallery

File:Eslövs kyrka på kvällen-3.jpg, Eslöv church at night File:Trollsjön 1.JPG, Trollsjön lake File:The flying goose.JPG, The flying goose statue by Nándor Wagner File:Minnesplats för husdjur.JPG, Graveyard for pets File:060506TorgmusikKusk.jpg, Music performance at the town square File:Eslövs bibliotek-1.jpg, The library

References

Statistics Sweden

External links

Eslöv Municipality
Official site

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