Sjöbo Municipality () is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''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 ...
in southern
Sweden
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. Its seat is located in the town
Sjöbo.
The present municipality was created in 1974 when the former market town (''
köping
''Köping'' was a Swedish denomination for a market town since the Middle Ages, derived from the Old Norse word '' kaupang''. The designation was officially abolished with the municipal reform of 1971, when Sweden was subdivided into the Munic ...
'') ''Sjöbo'' was amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipalities. There are fifteen original entities within today's municipality.
Geography
The town of
Sjöbo has flat terrain, with many small houses and three long straight streets stretching through it, leading to larger roads.
The northwestern part of the municipality includes the main part of
Vombsjön
Vombsjön (sometimes called ''Våmbsjön'') is a lake in Scania, Sweden. It is located 20 km to the east of Lund and lies in the municipalities of Lund Municipality, Lund, Eslöv Municipality, Eslöv and Sjöbo Municipality, Sjöbo. The lake ...
, the largest lake of southern
Scania
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and notable for being the water source of
Malmö
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. Some parts of the lake belong to
Lund Municipality
Lund Municipality () is a municipality in Scania County, southern Sweden. Its seat is the city of Lund.
As most municipalities in Sweden, the territory of municipality consists of many former local government units, united in a series of amalg ...
. It offers fishing for
European perch
The European perch (''Perca fluviatilis''), also known as the common perch, redfin perch, big-scaled redfin, English perch, Euro perch, Eurasian perch, Eurasian river perch, Hatch, poor man's rockfish or in Anglophone parts of Europe, simply the ...
,
pike,
pikeperch and
eel
Eels are ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes (), which consists of eight suborders, 20 families, 164 genera, and about 1000 species. Eels undergo considerable development from the early larval stage to the eventual adult stage ...
.
Localities
There are 9
urban area
An urban area is a human settlement with a high population density and an infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas originate through urbanization, and researchers categorize them as cities, towns, conurbations or suburbs. In urbani ...
s (also called a Tätort or locality) in Sjöbo Municipality.
In the table they are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.
Activities
There are at least five (largely) authentic medieval churches from the 12th century in the municipality (in
Södra Åsum,
Tolånga,
Björka,
Blentarp and
Everlöv). They are notable for not having undergone the severe restorations that many other churches in Scania suffered once the population began growing in the second half of the 19th century and
Helgo Zetterwall was hired to expand on them.
Frescos which adorned the apse of Södra Åsum church and the ceilings of the churches in Everlöv and Illstrop centuries ago have been slowly uncovered in recent years. Many similar churches had their ornamentation stripped and their paintings plastered over as part of the iconoclasm of Sweden's adoption of
Lutheranism
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.
Apart from religious activities, there is the annual festival ''Sjöbo marknad'', which translates to English as ''Sjöbo fair.'' It was first held in 1864, and is now held in late July, attracting some 100,000 visitors, making it one of the largest country fairs in
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 has
carousel
A carousel or carrousel (mainly North American English), merry-go-round (International English), or galloper (British English) is a type of amusement ride consisting of a rotating circular platform with seats for riders. The seats are tradit ...
s and is otherwise noted for its
pottery
Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. The place where such wares are made by a ''potter'' is al ...
vendors and trade.
Refugee controversy
Sjöbo Municipality reached the public eye in
Sweden
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in 1988 when, under the leadership of the Municipal Commissioner
Sven-Olle Olsson, it voted by a majority of 67% in a
referendum
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that it would not accept foreign
asylum seeker
An asylum seeker is a person who leaves their country of residence, enters another country, and makes in that other country a formal application for the right of asylum according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 14. A per ...
s. Most other municipalities in Sweden accepted refugees that came from troubled countries such as former
Yugoslavia
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, flag_p ...
and
Iraq
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.
Demographics
This is a demographic table based on Sjöbo Municipality's electoral districts in the
2022 Swedish general election
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sourced from
SVT's election platform, in turn taken from
SCB official statistics.
In total there were 19,473 inhabitants, including 14,943 Swedish citizens of voting age.
[ 28.8% voted for the left coalition and 70.1% for the right coalition. With 42.6 % of the vote, Sjöbo saw the highest result in the entire country for the ]Sweden Democrats
The Sweden Democrats ( , SD ) is a Nationalism, nationalist and Right-wing populism, right-wing populist political party in Sweden founded in 1988. As of 2024, it is the largest member of Sweden's Right-wing politics, right-wing bloc and the sec ...
. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
Elections
These are the results of elections held since the 1972 municipal reform. In 2014 Sjöbo Municipality became the first municipality in Sweden where the Sweden Democrats
The Sweden Democrats ( , SD ) is a Nationalism, nationalist and Right-wing populism, right-wing populist political party in Sweden founded in 1988. As of 2024, it is the largest member of Sweden's Right-wing politics, right-wing bloc and the sec ...
held the largest share of the votes. The high number of "missing" votes from the list from 1991 belonged to the Sjöbo Party. The Sweden Democrats numbers in 1988-1998 were not listed at a municipal level by the SCB due to the party's small size domestically.
Riksdag
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Blocs
This lists the relative strength of the socialist and centre-right blocs since 1973, but parties not elected to the Riksdag are inserted as "other", including the Sweden Democrats results from 1988 to 2006, but also the Christian Democrats pre-1991 and the Greens in 1982, 1985 and 1991. The sources are identical to the table above. The coalition or government mandate marked in bold formed the government after the election. New Democracy got elected in 1991 but are still listed as "other" due to the short lifespan of the party.
References
Statistics Sweden
*Info about Sjöbo Refugee question from a Nationalistic website
*Geography & Activities: Tourist broshure ''Sjöbo Kommun'', (2005), available at the tourist office in Swedish, English and German
German(s) may refer to:
* Germany, the country of the Germans and German things
**Germania (Roman era)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...
.
External links
Sjöbo
- Official site
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