Lomma Municipality

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The harbour in Lomma

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**Lomma Municipality (*Kommun*)**
Lomma in Scania in Sweden Map outlining municipalities of Sweden	Coat of arms
	Municipal facts
	Seat	Lomma
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	County	Skåne Län
	Province	Skåne
	Area Rank	56 km² 280th of 290
	Population Rank (2005)	18,595 x of 290
	Density	327/km²

Lomma Municipality is located in Skåne (Scania), about 10 kilometers north of Malmö, in southernmost Sweden. Its seat is located to the small town Lomma.

[edit] Geography

The small municipality -- the 20th smallest in Sweden -- borders to Kävlinge, Burlöv, Staffanstorp and Lund. As Burlöv also is notably small, Lomma almost borders to Malmö too.

It is situated by Öresund, at the inlet of the at the small river Höje å. Along the river lies a small-boat harbour. The beaches along its coasts also attract visitors from other municipalities; Lomma's beaches are the principal beaches for people from the beach-less Lund.

10 kilometers to the north-east is the university city of Lund, with some 90,000 inhabitants, about the same distance as to Malmö (with its 250,000 inhabitants) to the south. Lomma is also considered part of Metropolitan Malmö, showing itself for instance by the 6,500 commuters that live in Lomma. Travelling to and from Lomma is easy, as a main highway actually passes straight through the town of Lomma, connecting with Lund and Malmö, and with other cities to the north.

Geologically, its terrain is almost completely flat levelled, which is the custom for south-western Skåne as a whole. The highest location in Lomma is 40 meters above sea level.

[edit] History

The area where Lomma is now is located between two small rivers, and was inhabited by hunters in the Stone Age. The name Lomma can be traced to 1085, and in the ensuing centuries it established some wealth thanks to merchancy with the episcopal see in Lund.

Lomma kyrka

None the less, the area was only a village until Sweden's first cement works was established in 1871. The ground consists of a certain clay stemming from the last ice age, and is available in large quantities in Lomma. A full fledged industry was started in the 1860s, and by the end of the century Lomma had five brick factories. The bricks from Lomma are yellow of appearance and were regarded as the highest kind of bricks during that century. One church built with those bricks is the church in Lomma, (Lomma kyrka), a large neo Gothic church that was finished in the 1870s.

The municipality of Lomma was created in 1900; however at the time it was much smaller than today. It got its current size in 1960 when it was united with two other municipalities. From that time stems the coat of arms. It depicts an anchor -- showing the importance of the harbour -- and a brick wall, indicating that Lomma once actually had city rights (when it belonged to Denmark, before the Treaty of Roskilde 1658) as well as its brick industry.

[edit] Population centres

The two main towns in the municipality are Lomma and Bjärred. With some 8,300 inhabitants, they have almost the exact same population figures, and combined they house 93% of the municipal population. In comparisment, Bjärred may be regarded as a somewhat more fashionable town than Lomma.

None of the remaining population centres are significant: of the others, Flädje is the largest with its 210 inhabitants. Of note is also Alnarp, where one of the main campuses of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences is located.