Eslöv Municipality (''Eslövs kommun'') is one of 290

municipalities of Sweden The municipalities of Sweden ( sv, Sveriges kommuner) are its lower-level local government entities. There are 290 municipalities which are responsible for a large proportion of local services, including schools, emergency services and physical ...

, situated in

Skåne County Skåne County ( sv, Skåne län, link=no ), sometimes referred to as Scania County in English, is the most southern county, or , of Sweden, basically corresponding to the traditional province Scania. It borders the counties of Halland, Kronobe ...

in southern

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. Its seat is located in the city of

Eslöv Eslöv (; older da, Eslev) 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. History According to a map from 1717, Eslöv village was originally l ...

. 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 human-made upright stone, typically dating from the European middle Bronze Age. They can be foun ...

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

Localities

There are 13 urban areas in the municipality. As of 2015, they were:

Twin towns - Sister cities

* Asker * Rudersdal * Garðabær * Jakobstad * Viljandi

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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