Vittsjö is a

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 ...

situated in

Hässleholm Municipality Hässleholm Municipality (''Hässleholms kommun'') is a municipality in Scania County in southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the city Hässleholm. The present municipality was created in 1974 when the former ''City of Hässleholm,'' itself ...

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 with 1,665 inhabitants in 2010.

History

During the

Kalmar War The Kalmar War (1611–1613) was a war between Denmark–Norway and Sweden. Though Denmark-Norway soon gained the upper hand, it was unable to defeat Sweden entirely. The Kalmar War was the last time Denmark-Norway successfully defended its ''dom ...

, Vittsjö was the site of the 1612 Battle of Vittsjö, where recently crowned Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus nearly drowned while retreating from

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forces. Vittsjö municipality, located in Western District Göinge, then Kristianstad län, was extended in 1952 through the merger with Verum and Visseltofta municipalities.

Geography

Vittsjö has an altitude of . Nearby towns are

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 ...

Markaryd Markaryd () is a locality and the seat of Markaryd Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden with 3,966 inhabitants in 2010. International relations Twin towns — Sister cities Markaryd is twinned with: * Bytów, Poland Poland, officia ...

Osby Osby () is a locality and the seat of Osby Municipality, Scania County, Sweden with 7,157 inhabitants in 2010. Swedish ice hockey goaltender Magnus Åkerlund was born in Osby. The toy manufacturer BRIO was based in Osby, but moved to Malmö in ...

and

Kristianstad Kristianstad (, ; older spelling from Danish ''Christianstad'') is a city and the seat of Kristianstad Municipality, Scania County, Sweden with 40,145 inhabitants in 2016. During the last 15 years, it has gone from a garrison town to a devel ...

. The city itself has a rail line running through as well as a major highway, Route 117. The area is ideal for canoeing due to its major lake Vittsjön.

Commerce

The first houses in the town were built around the railroad station which was built in the 1860s. As a result, manufacturing industries settled in the area. The construction of Öresund Bridge and Sweden's EU membership made Skåne an ideal center of commerce. Hässleholm offered highly competitive land prices convenienently located to

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 pop ...

and

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

, making it appealing for industry to settle there. One fifth of all employment is within the manufacturing industry, with the emphasis on wood and metal. Other popular employment consists of public administration, commerce, private services, the construction industry, transport and farming and forestry. Today, Vittsjö hosts six of the largest companies in Sweden. The city is ranked among Europe's largest cities ordered by their number of companies Vittsjö is on position 6175. Companies located in the city are Wiwood AB, Wiwood Cutting AB, Emmaljunga Barnvagnsfabrik AB, Grus & Makadam AB, Emmaljunga Torvmull AB, and Emmaljunga Torv Försäljnings AB.

Famous people from Vittsjö

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, Co-spokesperson of the

Swedish Green Party The Green Party ( sv, Miljöpartiet de gröna, lit=Environmental Party the Greens, commonly referred to in Swedish as Miljöpartiet or MP) is a political party in Sweden based on green politics. . Sparked by the anti-nuclear power movement follo ...

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 ...

, blues and reggae musician * KG Hammar, former archbishop

References

External links

Official Site
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