Höganäs () is a

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and the seat of

Höganäs Municipality Höganäs Municipality () is one of 290 municipalities of Sweden, in Skåne County in the southern part of the country. Its seat is located in the city of Höganäs. The rural municipality Höganäs, in which the first ''municipalsamhälle'' (a ...

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. Its population was 14,107 in 2010. Höganäs is nationally known for its ceramics industry, Höganäs Keramik. Höganäs Keramik is part of

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Group. Höganäs has the main office of Höganäs AB, one of the world's biggest iron powder manufacturers with subsidiaries around the world. The Höganäs AB company was founded by Count Eric Ruuth in 1797, which makes it one of Sweden's oldest companies.

History

Höganäs began as a small fishing village in the parish of Väsby, documented in 1488 in the written form ''Høyenæss''. In the middle of the 17th century it had 17 homes.

Coal Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other Chemical element, elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal i ...

was found in the area, and

mining Mining is the Resource extraction, extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth. Mining is required to obtain most materials that cannot be grown through agriculture, agricultural processes, or feasib ...

started in 1797. In 1798 a

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with wooden rails was built. It was the first of its kind in Sweden and was used to transport coal from the mine to the

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. The population started to grow and new dwellings were built for the miners. During the 19th century more industries were built using

clay Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, ). Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impuriti ...

for making

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products. Höganäs is well known still today for ceramics. The coal mines, however, were closed in the 1960s. In 1936, when Höganäs got the title of a

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it had 6,915 inhabitants. Since 1971 it is the seat of

, encompassing the

Kullaberg Kullaberg () is a peninsula and nature reserve protruding into the Kattegat in Höganäs Municipality near the town of Mölle in southwest Sweden. The site in the province of Skåne is an area of considerable biodiversity supporting a number of ...

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with totally around 24,000 inhabitants. In 2009, the city began accepting the

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in its shops, restaurants, banks, and other businesses. More than 30 shops accept euros in cash as a part of a PR attempt.Delade meningar om euro hos handlare

Gallery

File:Höganäs kyrka.jpg, Höganäs church. File:Höganäs kommunhus-1.jpg, Höganäs Town hall courtyard. File:Höganäs-kommunhus-2.jpg, Höganäs Town hall courtyard. File:Hoganas_hamn_kvickbadet.jpg, Höganäs harbor. File:Höganäs Jefast ny redigerad-1.jpg, Jefast house.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hoganas Populated places in Höganäs Municipality Municipal seats of Skåne County Swedish municipal seats Coastal cities and towns in Sweden