Vinberg () is a

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and a parish situated in

Falkenberg Municipality Falkenberg Municipality (''Falkenbergs kommun'') is a municipality in Halland County on the Swedish west coast. The town Falkenberg is the municipal seat. The municipality was created in 1971 when the ''City of Falkenberg'' was amalgamated with s ...

Halland County Halland County ( sv, Hallands län, link=no, ) is a county ('' län'') on the western coast of Sweden. It corresponds roughly to the cultural and historical province of Halland. The capital is Halmstad. It borders the counties of Västra Göta ...

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, with 592 inhabitants in 2010. The parish is home to three villages: Vinberg,

Vinbergs kyrkby Vinbergs kyrkby is a locality situated in Falkenberg Municipality, Halland 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 Kingd ...

and Tröingeberg, the latter being a suburb of Falkenberg.

Geography

The parish covers an area of 35.5 km², of which 34.94 is land. Almost all of the land is cultivated, forests cover only 5 percent of the land (as of 1971). The river Ätran delimits the parish in the south west.

Vinberg Nature Reserve Vinberg Nature Reserve ( sv, 'Vinbergs naturreservat, Vinberg') is a municipal nature reserve in Falkenberg Municipality, Halland County, Sweden, of area 14.02ha. It was established by the municipality in 2003 and managed by it. NUTS code: SE231. ...

is located just south of the locality.

History

Vinberg was first mentioned in writing in 1330–1334. The name is expected to come from ''vind'' (

wind Wind is the natural movement of air or other gases relative to a planet's surface. Winds occur on a range of scales, from thunderstorm flows lasting tens of minutes, to local breezes generated by heating of land surfaces and lasting a few hou ...

) and ''berg'' (

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). It is, compared to surround areas, rich on archeological findings. Some of which have been destroyed due to modern cultivation. Kungshögen (

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: ''the Royal

Tumulus A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds or ''kurgans'', and may be found throughout much of the world. A cairn, which is a mound of stones buil ...

'') in Faurås is one of the objects that have suffered that fate. However, the adjacent ''kung Fares sten'' (king Fare's stone) remains intact. Three other brons age tumulii can be found in Faurås, as well as some stone circles. Further remains can be found in Töringe, close to the border to

Ljungby Ljungby () is the central locality of Ljungby Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden, with 15,785 inhabitants in 2015. Ljungby was instituted in 1829 as a ''köping'', or ''market town'', and did not become a municipality of its own when the fir ...

and in Hällinge. The oldest known church was built in the 12th century and demolished in the early 20th century. It was replaced with the larger, currently used, church, built 1899. Some of the inventory, such as two candlesticks, was saved, while a 12th-century baptismal funt was destroyed. The village that bears the name was built around a station along Falkenberg railway.

Infrastructure

County road 154 goes through the western part of the parish, though, until the 1990s went through Vinberg village. Several smaller roads connect Vinberg with surrounding villages; road N700 between Falkenberg and Vessigebro, road N702 between Vinberg village and Vinberg kyrkby, road N701 with Stafsinge and road N750 with

Långås Långås is a locality situated in Falkenberg Municipality, Halland 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 S ...

Sport

It has, for its size, a rather successful football team,

Vinbergs IF Vinbergs IF is a Sweden, Swedish association Football, football club located in Vinberg in Falkenberg Municipality, Halland County. Background Vinbergs Idrottsförening is a sports club that was founded in 1932 and has specialised in football and ...

, currently playing in the fourth division.

People from Vinberg

Olof von Dahlin Olof von Dalin (29 August 1708 – 12 August 1763) was a Swedish nobleman, poet, historian and courtier. He was an influential literary figure of the Swedish Enlightenment. Background Olof Dalin was born in the parish of Vinberg in Halland. H ...

, author * Magnus Svensson, footballer * Magnus Svensson, floorball

References

*''En bok om Vinberg, Kommittén för kulturforskning i Vinbergs kommun. 1972. Falkenberg: Hallands Nyheter AB'' {{authority control Populated places in Falkenberg Municipality