Löddeköpinge is the second-largest

locality Locality may refer to: * Locality (association), an association of community regeneration organizations in England * Locality (linguistics) * Locality (settlement) * Suburbs and localities (Australia), in which a locality is a geographic subdivis ...

Kävlinge Municipality Kävlinge Municipality (''Kävlinge kommun'') is a municipality in Scania County in southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Kävlinge. Localities There are nine urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Kävlinge Municipality ...

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 ...

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 SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

, with 6,290 inhabitants as of 2010. Löddeköpinge is about 10 km southwest of the municipal seat

Kävlinge Kävlinge () is a locality and the seat of Kävlinge Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 32,341 inhabitants in 2021. In 1996, a train containing large amounts of ammonia derailed and around 9,000 people had to be evacuated from the area. This ...

and about 5 km from

Barsebäck nuclear power plant Barsebäck () is a Boiling water reactor, boiling water nuclear power plant currently undergoing the process of nuclear decommissioning. The plant is situated in Barsebäck, Kävlinge Municipality, Skåne, Sweden. Located 20 kilometers from the ...

. The locality lies in the former parish of Löddeköpinge, which was an ''annex'' (subordinate) parish to that of

Borgeby Borgeby Castle ( sv, Borgeby slott) lies in Lomma Municipality, Scania in southern Sweden, beside the Kävlingeån, the largest river in Scania. History The castle is built on the site of an 11th-century castle or fortress. Finds at the site m ...

, located in the

härad A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region. It was formerly used in England, Wales, some parts of the United States, Denmark, Southern Schleswig, Sweden, Finland, Norway, the Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek, C ...

of Harjager and in the deanery of Torna and

Diocese of Lund The Diocese of Lund ( sv, Lunds stift) is a diocese within the Church of Sweden which corresponds to the provinces of Blekinge and Skåne. There are 217 parishes within the diocese, the most significant number in any of the dioceses of the Chur ...

. In 1911 it covered 1884 hectares and had 1131 inhabitants. As a division of the

Church of Sweden The Church of Sweden ( sv, Svenska kyrkan) is an Evangelical Lutheran national church in Sweden. A former state church, headquartered in Uppsala, with around 5.6 million members at year end 2021, it is the largest Christian denomination in Sw ...

, Löddeköpinge parish became Borgeby's mother parish in 1937 and was transferred to the deanery of Harjager in 1939. Since 1962, it has been merged with Borgeby,

Barsebäck Barsebäck () is a locality situated in Kävlinge Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 524 inhabitants in 2010. It lies about 4 km east of the harbour village Barsebäckshamn. It is known for the now closed Barsebäck Nuclear Power Plant ...

, Hofterup and Hög as a single parish in the deanery of Rönneberga.Archive catalogue of SVAR, Swedish Archive Information, National Archives of Sweden

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Populated places in Kävlinge Municipality Populated places in Skåne County {{Skåne-geo-stub