Hässleholm Municipality () is a

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

in southern

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. Its seat is located in the city

Hässleholm Hässleholm is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Hässleholm Municipality, Scania County, Sweden with 18,500 inhabitants in 2011. Overview Hässleholm was gradually developed from 1860 in connection with the construction of the m ...

. 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 ( ), sometimes referred to as Scania County or just Scania in English, is the southernmost Counties of Sweden, county, or , of Sweden, mostly corresponding to the traditional Provinces of Sweden, province of Scania. It borders th ...

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

with 1,268.53 km² (

Kristianstad Municipality Kristianstad Municipality () is a municipality in Skåne 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 government reform, and it ...

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.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Hässleholm Municipality's electoral districts in the

2022 Swedish general election General elections were held in Sweden on 11 September 2022 to elect the 349 members of the Riksdag who in turn elected the Prime Minister of Sweden. Under the constitution, regional and municipal elections were also held on the same day. The pr ...

sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics. In total there were 52,201 residents, including 39,480 Swedish citizens of voting age. 37.1% voted for the left coalition and 61.7% for the right coalition.

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 strik ...

Twin towns

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* Nykøbing-Rørvig,

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Notable residents

* Bengt Bauler *

Johan T Karlsson Johan Tommy Karlsson (born April 10, 1976 in Hässleholm) is a Swedish techno/electropop artist who uses the alias Familjen (, "The Family"). Biography Karlsson grew up in Hässleholm, Skåne (the same town as fellow electronica producers Andreas ...

* Ida-Theres Nerell * Pia Hansen *

Andreas Tilliander Berndt Andreas Tilliander (born 1977) is a Sweden, Swedish electronica, drone music, drone and techno producer who significantly contributed to the evolution of the glitch (music), 'clicks & cuts' genre with his first albums ''Cliphop'' (Raster.No ...

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, football (soccer) player *

Jon Jönsson Jon Martin Olof Jönsson (born 8 July 1983) is a Swedish former professional 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 brou ...

, 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 sev ...

* Åke "Kometen" Persson * Jeanette Thelander *

Anders S. Nilsson Anders is a male name in Scandinavian languages and Fering North Frisian, an equivalent of the Greek Andreas ("manly") and the English Andrew. It originated from Andres via metathesis. In Sweden, Anders has been one of the most common names fo ...

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Neneh Cherry Neneh Mariann Karlsson (; born 10 March 1964), better known as Neneh Cherry, is a Swedish singer, songwriter, rapper, occasional disc jockey, and broadcaster. Her musical career started in London in the early 1980s, where she performed in a numb ...

, Swedish-American singer born here but raised in

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and

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* Martin Ingvarsson * Joddla med Siv *

Freddie Ljungberg Karl Fredrik "Freddie" Ljungberg ( ; born 16 April 1977) is a Swedish former professional association football, footballer who played as a Midfielder#Winger, winger. He is also a former Manager (association football), manager, and was most recent ...

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

Nilla Fischer Åsa Nilla Maria Fischer (born 2 August 1984) is a Swedish former Association football, footballer. Her last club was Linköpings FC. She played in the Sweden women's national football team, Swedish national team between 2001 and 2022. She was pr ...

, 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 M ...

, Sweden's youngest parliament member, now a journalist for Kalla Fakta * Bildsköne Bengtsson * Peps Persson, musician * KG Hammar, former archbishop * Gunhild Sehlin

References

Statistics Sweden

External links

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