Hässleholm Municipality (''Hässleholms kommun'') is a

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Scania County Scania, also known by its native name of Skåne (, ), is the southernmost of the historical provinces (''landskap'') of Sweden. Located in the south tip of the geographical region of Götaland, the province is roughly conterminous with Skåne C ...

in southern

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. Its seat is located in the city

Hässleholm Hässleholm (older da, Hasselholm) is a locality and the seat of Hässleholm Municipality, Scania County, Sweden with 18,500 inhabitants in 2010. Overview Hässleholm was gradually developed from 1860 in connection with the construction of the ...

. The present municipality was created in 1974 when the former ''City of Hässleholm,'' itself incorporated in 1914, was amalgamated with seven surrounding municipalities. In 1863, there were 29 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'', which roughly translates as ''"Hazel-isle"''.

Geography

At 1,306.27 km² Hässleholm is the second largest municipality 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 ...

by total area. By land area Hässleholm is the largest in

with 1,268.53 km² (

Kristianstad Municipality Kristianstad Municipality (''Kristianstads kommun'') is a municipality in Scania County in southernmost Sweden. Its seat is located in the city Kristianstad. The present municipality was created in three steps during the last nationwide local gov ...

short after with 1,246.25 km²), much due to its relatively small water area of 37.74 km².

Localities

There are 17

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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, 2020. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

Industry

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

Sport in Hässleholm

IFK Hässleholm IFK Hässleholm is a Swedish football club from Hässleholm that was established in 1905. The team is currently playing in Division 2 Östra Götaland. Several well known players have played at the club including England international strike ...

Twin towns

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* Nykøbing-Rørvig,

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Notable residents

* Bengt Bauler * Johan T Karlsson * Ida-Theres Nerell *

Pia Hansen Pia Hansen (born 25 September 1965) 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 tr ...

Andreas Tilliander Berndt Andreas Tilliander (born 1977) is a Swedish electronica, drone and techno producer who significantly contributed to the evolution of the 'clicks & cuts' genre with his first albums ''Cliphop'' (Raster.Noton) and ''Ljud'' (Mille Plateaux). ...

Grönwalls Grönwalls is a dansband from Hässleholm in Sweden. The band won the Swedish dansband championships in Sunne in August 1992. Famous hit songs include ''Du ringde från Flen'' from 1993 and ''Ett liv tillsammans'', written by Calle Kindbom and ...

Andreas Dahl Andreas Dahl (born 6 June 1984) is a Swedish former football player. He has previously spent one season at Coventry City F.C. Prior to that, he represented his home town club IFK Hässleholm. Dahl has made 15 matches for the Swedish under-21 nat ...

, football (soccer) player *

Jon Jönsson Jon Martin Olof Jönsson (born 8 July 1983) is a Swedish former footballer who played as a defender. Career Jönsson made his first team debut in IFK Hässleholm aged 15, and his talent was recognised by Tottenham Hotspur who brought him to ...

, football (soccer) player * Ingrid Swede, film *

Jan Brink Jan Brink (born 1960) is a Swedish equestrian. He was born in Hörby. He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he placed fourth in team dressage. He also competed at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. Jan Brink is a s ...

* Åke "Kometen" Persson * Jeanette Thelander * Anders S. Nilsson * Glenn Wish *

Neneh Cherry Neneh Mariann Karlsson (born 10 March 1964), better known as Neneh Cherry, is a Swedish singer-songwriter, rapper, occasional DJ and broadcaster. Her musical career started in London in the early 1980s, where she performed in a number of punk roc ...

, Swedish-American singer born here but raised in

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and

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Martin Ingvarsson Martin Ingvarsson (born 9 December 1965) is a Swedish football former 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 was an ...

* Joddla med Siv *

Freddie Ljungberg Karl Fredrik "Freddie" Ljungberg (; born 16 April 1977) is a Swedish former professional footballer and manager who played as a winger. He was most recently a former assistant coach, and interim head coach of Arsenal. He began his career at Hal ...

, footballer born in Vittsjö, but grew up in Halmstad *

Nilla Fischer Åsa Nilla Maria Fischer (born 2 August 1984) is a Swedish footballer for Linköpings. She played in the Swedish national team between 2001 and 2022. She was previously the captain of FC Rosengård. Career Fischer won most of her caps for Swede ...

, footballer *

Gustav Fridolin Per Gustav Edvard Fridolin (born 10 May 1983) is a Swedish journalist, author, teacher and former politician who served as Minister for Education from 2014 to 2019 and as one of two spokespersons of the Green Party from 2011 to 2019. He was a ...

, Sweden's youngest parliament member, now a journalist for Kalla Fakta * Bildsköne Bengtsson *

Peps Persson Per-Åke Tommy Persson (20 December 1946 – 27 June 2021), known by the stage name Peps Persson, was a Swedish blues and reggae musician and social critic from Tjörnarp, Scania. Throughout his career he mostly made music in Swedish and was we ...

, musician * KG Hammar, former archbishop * Gunhild Sehlin

References

Statistics Sweden

External links

Hässleholm Municipality
- Official site {{DEFAULTSORT:Hassleholm Municipality Municipalities of Skåne County