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28-679: Trelleborg ( Swedish pronunciation: [trɛlɛˈbɔrj] ) is a town in Skåne County , Sweden , with 43,359 inhabitants as of 31 December 2015. It is the southernmost town in Sweden located some 10–15 kilometres (6.2–9.3 mi) west from the southernmost point of Sweden and the Scandinavian peninsula . It is one of the most important ferry towns in Scandinavia as well as around the Baltic Sea , and

56-670: A city of Sweden. Mostly this was thanks to the work of a few stubborn men, who had continuously been petitioning the Swedish Riksdag with these requests since 1658. In 1962, in Trelleborg, a group of Macedonian political emigrants founded the Movement for the Liberation and Unification of Macedonia . The local government reform of 1971 made Trelleborg the seat of Trelleborg Municipality , covering both rural and urban areas. Trelleborg

84-722: A part of the line Malmö - Berlin . During the GDR era, a longer car ferry line opened to Travemünde ("modern harbour" of Lübeck ), initially as line owned by the Swedish national railways (SJ), but known as TT-Line from 1962. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, several new shipping lines and routes opened. Trelleborg municipality built a joint ferry terminal for all services, known as " Kontinentbron ", or "the Continental Bridge". Both Germany and Poland can be reached by ferries from

112-428: A row of palm trees , illustrating the southern location of the city. They are moved indoors during winter as they can't tolerate freezing temperatures. On 12 October 2017, several people were injured in shootings in the town, linked to gang violence . Football clubs in Trelleborg include Trelleborgs FF , IFK Trelleborg , and FC Trelleborg the basketball team is called Trelleborg Basket . The local scout corps

140-626: A working-class-oriented city and is politically a traditional stronghold for the Swedish Social Democratic Party . However, since the latest elections in 2006 the Social Democratic Party is in opposition in the municipality. It is today often visited by people travelling from Sweden to Germany because of the ferries to Rostock , Sassnitz , and Lübeck - Travemünde in Germany. These ferries began sailing on 1 May 1897, with

168-406: Is Duke of Skåne . When the new county was established in 1997, it was named Skåne län as its borders coincide with those of the province Skåne . In English, the county as well as the province are sometimes known as Scania , but the name Skåne is more frequently used, e.g. by the county administrative board. The coat of arms for Skåne County is the same as for the province of Skåne, only with

196-479: Is called Trelleborgs scoutkår. Other places of interest include the bathhouse, local golf club, sporthalls, beaches and several parks. Trelleborg has two museums as of 2022, Trelleborgs Museum centered around the old viking castle rebuilt in the city, and another depicting different installations at different times. Several different statues can be found around the city especially depicting the works of Axel Ebbe  [ sv ] . An art i gallery can be found in

224-575: Is divided into four parliamentary constituencies or electoral districts , electing 47 of the 349 members of the Riksdag . Each district is made up of one or more municipalities. In the 2018 general election , the Sweden Democrats performed particularly well in Skåne County, getting the highest number of votes in 21 out of the county's 33 municipalities. Overall representation in the Riksdag during

252-731: Is the region's highest political body, and its members are elected by the electorate, as opposed to the county administrative board , that guards the national interests in the county under the chairmanship of the county governor ( landshövding in Swedish). Skåne County contains 33 municipalities ( Swedish : kommuner ), the largest by population being Malmö Municipality (340,000 inhabitants), Helsingborg Municipality (145,000), Lund Municipality (123,000 inhabitants) and Kristianstad Municipality (85,000 inhabitants). The municipalities have municipal governments, similar to city commissions , and are further divided into parishes. The parish division

280-674: Is the southern endpoint for the European route E6 that goes north to Kirkenes , Norway. The E6 is a major artery for shipping goods into Sweden, connecting to the E22 in Malmö, and the E4 in Helsingborg. The harbour has a very strategic position, in the very far south of the Scandinavian peninsula . The first ferry connection to Germany opened in 1897. This was replaced with a train-ferry line to Saßnitz , in 1909 as

308-462: Is traditionally used by the Church of Sweden , but also serves as a divisioning measure for Swedish census and elections. The table details all Riksdag elections held in the area currently constituting Skåne County since the unicameral era began in 1970 . Although both were rounded to 49.3 under one decimal, the leftist bloc had 49.33 to 49.25% for the centre-right bloc in the 1970 election. The county

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336-470: The 2018–2022 mandate period was as follows: The ten most populous localities of Skåne County in 2020 were: The ten largest municipalities of the county by total area are: SCB have collected statistics on backgrounds of residents since 2002. These tables consist of all who have two foreign-born parents or are born abroad themselves. The chart lists election years and the last year on record alone. The motorway built between Malmö and Lund in 1953

364-680: The Baltic Sea operate from several smaller ports as well. TT-Line TT-Line GmbH is a shipping company based in Lübeck , Germany , which has been providing ferry service between Travemünde in Schleswig-Holstein and Trelleborg in southern Sweden since 1962. Since 1992, it has also operated a service from Rostock to Trelleborg (until 1997 marketed as TR-Line ) and from Swinoujscie in Poland. As of 2023, TT-Line owns nine ferries . In 1978, TT-Line acquired 50% of Olau Line and purchased

392-496: The Revolution . Today Trelleborg has the second largest seaport of Sweden, behind Gothenburg . Every year it transports more than 10 million metric tonnes of cargo. Overlooking the harbour of Smygehuk near Trelleborg is a statue of a nude woman that was installed in 1930. Actress Uma Thurman 's grandmother, Birgit Holmquist, the mother of Nena von Schlebrügge , was the model for this statue. The entrance road from west has

420-513: The tinctures reversed and the crown, beak and tongue of the griffin in the same color. When the arms are shown with a royal crown, it represents the County Administrative Board, which is the regional presence of (royal) government authority. Blazon: "Gules, a Griffin's head erased Or, crowned and armed the same." Skåne County is the administrative equivalent of the province of Skåne , but it also includes an insignificant part of

448-489: The Sassnitz line; the route to Travemünde was established in 1962, while the line to the former East German city Rostock was inaugurated after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The ferries carry both passengers on one-day journeys, cars with vacationing families, and heavy trucks on their way through Europe. In April 1917, Lenin arrived with the ferry from Sassnitz to Trelleborg on his way from exile back to Russia to lead

476-604: The Swedish Prince Valdemar . It was soon reconquered by the Danes, and continued to belong to Denmark until 1658, when Scania was lost to Sweden by the Treaty of Roskilde . In medieval times, Trelleborg had an important part in herring fishing. At that time, this was conducted along the entire coastline of what is now Sweden, as the herring shoals were of such great numbers that fishermen were said to have been able to stand on

504-398: The city depicting his works. Trelleborg is twinned with: [REDACTED] Media related to Trelleborg at Wikimedia Commons Sk%C3%A5ne County The present county was created in 1997 when Kristianstad County and Malmöhus County were merged; it covers around 3% of Sweden's total area, while its population of 1.3 million comprises 13% of Sweden's total population. Prince Oscar

532-404: The low twenties Celsius most of the time and cool but generally not very cold winters with means at or just above freezing. At the end of the 19th century, Trelleborg became an industrial town and the foundation of modern Trelleborg has largely been created by a few large companies; most notably Trelleborg Industries and the ferry company and business related to the seaport. Much of it has been

560-482: The main town of the Söderslätt agricultural areas. The first written record of the name is from 1257, Threlæburgh . The name is found in many places in Scandinavia . Borg means castle or stronghold and träl can mean thrall , but can also refer to the leaning poles on the outside of the medieval Viking stronghold. Remains of the original stronghold were excavated in 1988. The name may also have originated from

588-707: The oldest airports in the world still in use is located in Skåne, namely Ljungbyhed Airport , in operation since 1910. Starting in 1926, the Swedish Air Force used the airport for flight training, and up until the military school was moved to the nearby Ängelholm F10 Wing in 1997, the airport was extremely busy. In the late 1980s, it was Sweden's busiest airport, with a record high of more than 1,400 take-offs and landings per day. The major ports of Skåne are Trelleborg , Ystad , Åhus , Copenhagen Malmö Port , Landskrona Harbour and Helsingborg Harbour. Ferry connections across

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616-576: The present county with boundaries that are almost identical to the boundaries of the province. The seat of residence for the Governor ( landshövding ) is the city of Malmö . The County Administrative Board is a Government Agency headed by a Governor. See List of Skåne Governors . Region Skåne is an evolved County Council , which was established in 1999 when the County Councils of the former counties were amalgamated. Its county or regional assembly

644-499: The province of Halland . Skåne County is administered by Region Skåne , one of the 20 county councils of Sweden . Its main responsibilities are for the public healthcare system and public transport. In addition, it has for a trial period assumed certain tasks from the County Administrative Board. The two former administrative county councils of the province of Skåne shown on the map, Kristianstad County and Malmöhus County , which were established in 1719, were merged in 1997, forming

672-486: The shore and land fish with nets. Trelleborg became an important merchant city as merchants from Germany came to trade herring. In 1619 following a devastating fire, the Danish King decided that one merchant city on the coast was sufficient and revoked Trelleborg's status as a merchant city in favour of Malmö . Not until 1840 was Trelleborg allowed to become a merchant city, and not until 1867 did it regain its rights as

700-468: The stronghold that still remains in the center of the city. Strongholds like that have been found at several places around Scandinavia, mostly in the south of Sweden and Denmark, and are all called trelleborgs. The name is likely to have originated from that borg. The earliest written record of Trelleborg is from 1257. Three years later Trelleborg was presented as a wedding gift from the Danish royal family to

728-719: The terminal. As of 2018, the following shipping lines and routes are in operation: TT-Line Stena Line Unity Line Most of the ferry transports are lorries, and this makes Trelleborg's port the largest in Sweden in terms of goods by weight. In 2005, 11 million metric ton of goods passed through the port (along with almost 2 million passengers). Although Trelleborg does not have an official month to month weather station featured in SMHI's reports, its nearest weather stations in Falsterbo and Malmö both indicate an oceanic climate ( Cfb ) with warm and sometimes hot summers averaging in

756-428: The work of the influential businessman Johan Kock. Other important industries he established were Akzo Nobel Inks , Today called Flint Group Sweden, manufacturing printing inks (established as Gleitzman Industries in the 1890s), and DUX, who make beds. Later in the 1950s, Perstorp (Flooring) Industries was established in Trelleborg and it manufactures flooring boards and other plastic material. Trelleborg continues to be

784-748: Was the first motorway in Sweden . With the opening of the Öresund Bridge between Malmö and Copenhagen (the longest combined road and rail bridge in Europe) in 2000, the Swedish motorways were linked with European route E20 in Denmark, and the two countries' railway systems were physically connected. Before the bridge was built there were train ferries operated between Helsingborg and Helsingør. There are also train ferries to and from Germany and Poland . Skåne has three major public airports, Malmö Airport , Ängelholm–Helsingborg Airport and Kristianstad Airport . One of

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