Limhamn

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Limhamn is, in administrative sense, the southern district of the city of Malmö in Sweden. The name literally means "Lime harbour". Before 1915, Limhamn was (briefly) a town of its own.

The population of the Limhamn–Bunkeflo administrative district (including suburbs) is 31,000, of which 7,000 live in the southern suburbs Tygelsjö and Bunkeflostrand, and some live in neighbourhoods that aren't usually counted to Limhamn proper.

1 History
2 Demographics
3 Miscellaneous topics
4 Books about Limhamn
5 External links

[edit] History

Archeological findings revealed a stoneage village from the Ertebølle culture at Limhamn. The interpretation of Limhamn's fate in later times diverge. Limhamn is by some held to have been one of the more important fishing villages in Scania, with a population living of the sea and relatively stable in size through the centuries, but this opinion is not undisputed.

Limestone has been quarried at least since the early 16th century, which we know since king Christian II of Denmark (1513–1523) forbade the trade on the illegal harbour Limhamn. But first from 1871 has the quarry been of industrial extent. A large cement factory, railway connection to Malmö, and a freight harbour were constructed in 1889. Soon also other industries were established.

Limhamn grew rapidly in the last decades of the 19th century: to 2,500 inhabitants in 1886, to 8,000 in 1905, when Limhamn was declared as town, and to 10,000 in 1915 when Limhamn was incorporated with the ten times larger town of Malmö (democratically but narrowly decided by the town council). The next increase of the population started with the industrial boom after World War II, when a few blocks of flats were built. From the late 1950s a belt of new detached houses led to Limhamn physically growing together with Malmö. Locals may dispute which of these new neighbourhoods that really are parts of Limhamn proper, and which are to be rightfully counted to Malmö, why figures for Limhamn's present-day population may vary approximately in the range 20,000–24,000. The industries have chiefly been closed down in the late 20th century, and most people now work elsewhere in the metropolitan area that covers most of Western Scania.

[edit] Demographics

Today, all of Limhamn is a modestly prestigious area to live in. Very few of the houses from the pre-industrial epoch remain, but old Limhamn is characterized by owner-occupied brick houses from the late 19th and early 20th century, many of which originally were owner-build working class houses for one, two or three families. Blue-collar workers, craftsmen, and white-collar workers dominate.

[edit] Miscellaneous topics

During the interwar years, Hermann Göring piloted the first mail-carrying seaplane, on the route Limhamn - Warnemünde, probably while being employed at Svenska Lufttrafik. He lived for a while at Linnégatan 12 in Limhamn.