Eslöv Municipality

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Eslövs kommun
County	Skåne County
Province	Scania
Seat	Eslöv
Area  • Total area  • Land area	208th of 290 426.51 km² 421.66 km²
Population  • Total	80th of 290 30,437 inhabitants
Density  • Total	73rd of 290 72.2 inhabitants/km²
Website	http://www.eslov.se/
Area and population as of December 31, 2006

The newly renovated Citizen's Hall in Eslöv, by architect Hans Asplund

Hjularöd Castle

Eslöv Church

Eslöv Municipality (Eslövs kommun) is one of 290 municipalities of Sweden, situated in Skåne County in southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Eslöv.

The present municipality was created in 1971, when the former City of Eslöv was amalgamated with a number of surrounding municipalities, most of them created by the earlier nation-wide local government reform in 1952.

The municipality has several interesting places. There are 11 castles. Hjularöd's castle was the setting of the Swedish TV classic Mystery of Greveholm broadcasted by SVT. In the Västra Strö village there are old rune stones from ca year 1000. Sweden's only sugar refinery lies in Örtofta, south of Eslöv. In Eslöv there are two nature reserves, Allmänningen and Abullahagen. The Stone Mountain, Eslöv Church and Hotel Sten Stensson Sten with the locally famous "Scanish Steps" lie in the middle of Eslöv. Maybe the most famous inhabitant of Eslöv is the comedian Johan Glans, who has made several TV series.

[edit] Localities

There are 12 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Eslöv 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.

1) Löberöd is a bimunicipal [1] locality situated on the municipal border. A minor part is in Höör Municipality.

[edit] References

• Statistics Sweden

[edit] External links

• Eslöv Municipality Official site
• Coat of arms

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