Köinge () is a village in
Falkenberg Municipality
Falkenberg Municipality () 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 six rural municipalit ...
,
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
. It formed a separate parish until 2005, when it became a part of
Okome parish. The village has about 200 inhabitants.
History
The first written record of the village is found in 1362. Several alternative interpretations of the name exists. The
battle of Axtorna in 1565 took place not far from the village.
It used to be seat of the local district court, and did then have an
execution
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place.
A golden
necklace
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from the
Migration Period
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was found in 1889.
A comic museum, Comicland, existed in Köinge from 1988 to 2004.
Infrastructure
County road 154 passes through the village, as does, in perpendicular direction, road 782, which connects the village with
Svartrå and
Ätrafors.
The
Falkenberg railway
Falkenberg Railway (Swedish language, Sw. ''Falkenbergs Järnväg (FJ)'' or ''Pyttebanan'') was an 891 mm gauge narrow gauge railway, narrow gauge railway railway line, line between Falkenberg and Limmared in Sweden. It was inaugurated 28 S ...
(1894-1959) had a station in the village. The building was later used as a
post office
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and a
library
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.
People from Köinge
* Göran Karlsson, founder of
Gekås
Gekås Ullared AB is a Swedish superstore in Ullared, Sweden, founded in 1963 by Göran Karlsson (businessman), Göran Karlsson as ''Ge-kås Manufaktur''. It had an annual turnover of Swedish kronor, SEK 4.2 billion in 2010, with a total store a ...
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Koinge, Falkenberg Municipality
Populated places in Falkenberg Municipality