Sjöbo Municipality

The present municipality was created in 1974 when the former market town (köping) Sjöbo was amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipalities. There are fifteen original entities within today's municipality.

Localities

There are 9 urban areas (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.

#	Locality	Population
1	Sjöbo	6,364
2	Blentarp	1,144
3	Vollsjö	788
4	Lövestad	608
4	Sjöbo sommarby och Svansjö sommarby	608
6	Karups sommarby	316
7	Bjärsjölagård	311
8	Sövde	301
9	Äsperöd	226

Refugee controversy

Main article: Refugee controversy in Sjöbo

Sjöbo Municipality reached the public eye in Sweden in 1988 when, under the leadership of the Municipal Commissioner Sven-Olle Olsson, it voted by a majority of 67% in a referendum that it would not accept foreign asylum seekers. Most other municipalities in Sweden accepted refugees that came from troubled countries such as former Yugoslavia and Iraq.^{[citation needed]}

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, immigration, high unemployment and the fiscal burdens on local governments who were obliged to integrate refugees, and the influence of Sjöbo Municipality's refusal to accept refugees in 1987, led to the adoption of a combined immigration and integration system in the "Aliens Act" of 1989.^[3]

Town "centre" one may call it

The streets are long and straight in Sjöbo

The Old Church of Södra Åsum, just north of Sjöbo

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, the largest lake of southern Scania and notable for being the water source of Malmö. Some parts of the lake belong to Lund Municipality. It offers fishing for European perch, pike, pikeperch and eel.^{[citation needed]}

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.

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. It has carousels and is otherwise noted for its pottery vendors and trade.^{[citation needed]}

References

↑ "Statistiska centralbyrån den 1 januari 2010" (Microsoft Excel) (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. Retrieved 2010-08-21.
↑ "SCB, Befolkningsstatistik 30 juni 2012" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. Retrieved 2010-08-19.
↑ from Migration News, in what looks to be a review on the book Mechanisms of Immigration Control. A Comparative Analysis of European Regulation Policies, by Brochmann, Grete and Tomas Hammar. (Eds. 1999) Berg Publishers (http://www.berg.demon.co.uk/)

Statistics Sweden
Info about Sjöbo Refugee question from a Nationalistic website: Sweden the extreme Way
Geography & Activities: Tourist broshure Sjöbo Kommun, (2005), available at the tourist office in Swedish, English and German.

External links

Sjöbo - Official site
Coat of arms

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v t e Localities in Sjöbo Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden

Localities	Äsperöd Bjärsjölagård Blentarp Karups sommarby Lövestad Sjöbo sommarby och Svansjö sommarby Sjöbo (seat) Sövde Vollsjö

Coordinates: 55°42′N 13°12′E / 55.700°N 13.200°E / 55.700; 13.200

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