Hököpinge is a

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situated in

Vellinge Municipality Vellinge Municipality (''Vellinge kommun'') is a municipalities of Sweden, municipality in Skåne County in southern Sweden. Its seat is located in Vellinge. The present municipality is a result of the latest local government reform in Sweden. In ...

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with 1,105 inhabitants in 2010. It lies about 2 km north of

Vellinge Vellinge is a locality and the seat of Vellinge Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of ...

. The village contains mostly older buildings along small roads. However, in the village's outer reach there are newly built four-storey buildings in "factory style" at the former factory. In 2017, a new plan for about 100 homes, a primary school and a shop has been approved.

History

Researchers believe that around the 12th century this was a marketplace, mainly because of its position. Hököpinge is located close to the sea and was well protected against wars inland, an ideal place for a marketplace. The name Hököpinge comes from the Old Norse word ''Haukrs'', which means "marketplace". In 1346 the name was spelled Hököpingel, in 1479 Hökiobinge and in 1567 Höykiöpinge. The main road that went between the two larger cities

Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat ...

and

Trelleborg Trelleborg () is a town in Skåne County, Sweden, with 43,359 inhabitants as of December 31, 2015. It is the southernmost town in Sweden located some west from the southernmost point of Sweden and the Scandinavian peninsula. It is one of the mo ...

went by Hököpinge and not by

. This stresses the importance of Hököpinge's role in trading.

Recent history

On 11 November 2009 it was revealed that

would have the municipalities' first lodging for refugee children set up in a hostel in Hököpinge. The lodging for the

refugee A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a displaced person who has crossed national borders and who cannot or is unwilling to return home due to well-founded fear of persecution.

children was set up by the private company, Attendo Care, commissioned by

Malmö Municipality Malmö Municipality ( sv, Malmö kommun), or City of Malmö (''Malmö stad''), is a Swedish municipality in Skåne County, the southernmost of the counties of Sweden (and conterminous with the historical province (''landskap'') of Scania). Whe ...

. This was opposed by many politicians in

, claiming support of the inhabitants of Hököpinge. Vellinge hasn't accepted refugees before this.

References

Populated places in Vellinge Municipality Populated places in Skåne County Cities and towns in the Øresund Region {{Skåne-geo-stub