Ljungby Municipality

Ljungby Municipality (Template:Langx) is a municipality in Kronoberg County, southern Sweden, where the town Ljungby is seat.

In 1971 the City of Ljungby (1936-1970) was amalgamated with the rural municipalities surrounding it, thus creating the present municipality. In 1974 a minor adjustment of the boundaries took place. There are 19 original entities within the area.

Geography

Ljungby Municipality contains a little more plains than average in Småland. Lakes, forests and plains are never far away. The tenth largest lake in Sweden, Bolmen, is located in the north-western part of the municipality. The town Ljungby is visited by thousands of tourists, mainly from Germany, every summer.

Localities

There are 8 urban areas (also called a tätort or locality) in Ljungby Municipality.

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of 31 December 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

#	Locality	Population
1	Ljungby	14,810
2	Lagan	1,751
3	Ryssby	689
4	Lidhult	635
5	Kånna	365
6	Vittaryd	306
7	Angelstad	276
8	Agunnaryd	215

The town of Hamneda and the small village of Bohok are also located within Ljungby Municipality.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Ljungby Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.<ref name=LjungbyVal2022>Template:Cite web</ref>

In total there were 28,396 inhabitants, including 21,191 Swedish citizens of voting age.<ref name=LjungbyVal2022/> 40.8% voted for the left coalition and 57.9% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip style="background:Template:Party color;color:#FFFFFF;" | style="background:Template:Party color;color:#FFFFFF;" | % % Agunnaryd 1,281 928 34.4 64.4 87 85 15 26,298 31 Angelstad 1,418 1,136 38.1 61.1 85 90 10 27,200 36 Astrad 1,721 1,255 43.9 55.0 84 76 24 26,695 37 Berga V 1,323 949 35.3 63.5 81 79 21 24,490 28 Berga Ö 1,386 1,062 36.3 62.7 85 82 18 25,011 30 Ekebacken 1,318 998 45.2 53.6 88 84 16 27,583 33 Hammaren 1,678 1,292 44.3 53.2 75 65 35 22,727 31 Hamneda 1,532 1,113 32.6 65.6 83 81 19 24,156 29 Hjortsberg V 1,468 1,201 45.1 53.6 72 62 38 20,581 28 Hjortsberg Ö 1,696 1,199 51.3 47.9 73 51 49 22,648 27 Kungshög V 1,675 1,185 44.1 54.2 80 73 27 24,221 32 Kungshög Ö 1,644 1,311 44.6 54.0 77 70 30 24,008 36 Lidhult 1,213 848 41.2 57.6 70 72 28 21,362 30 Ljungsätra 1,604 1,297 42.7 56.5 79 75 25 23,095 35 Ryssby 1,704 1,246 41.4 57.5 82 85 15 25,613 34 Stensberg 1,697 1,235 37.7 61.1 86 76 24 26,758 32 Sunnerbo 1,886 1,323 42.0 57.1 91 79 21 30,182 44 Torpa 734 556 29.8 67.4 80 84 16 21,975 29 Vittaryd-Bolmsö 1,418 1,057 38.4 60.3 82 81 19 25,401 35 Source: SVT<ref name=LjungbyVal2022/>

History

Ljungby Municipality traces its history back to the Viking Age. Vikings followed the river Lagan and lived in its vicinity, and one of the locations were in what is now Ljungby Municipality.

In the 14th century several important medieval roads went through the municipality. In that century, an inn was established, and this was to form the center of Ljungby town.

During the 19th century the area closest to Ljungby itself consisted mostly of sand without any vegetation, and the government released funds to plant trees which would tie together the sand and make it suitable for plants.

Sister cities

The following cities are twinned with Ljungby:

• Template:Flagicon Ås, Akershus fylke, Norway
• Template:Flagicon Paimio, Southwest Finland, Finland
• Template:Flagicon Šilutė, Klaipėda County, Lithuania

Notability

File:Clifford Burton Memorial Stone At Crash Site.jpg

Memorial stone near the crash site.

• The opera singer Christina Nilsson was discovered while performing at the Ljungby market in 1857.
• Metallica bassist Cliff Burton died on a highway within the municipality when the band's tour bus overturned on 27 September 1986.

Born here

• Eskil Erlandsson born in Torpa 1957. Former chairman of the Swedish Defence Committee (2002-2006) and current Agriculture ministry(2006-).
• John Lind, Governor of Minnesota (1899–1901), born in Kånna parish.
• Olof Johansson (b. 1931), politician, former president of the Swedish Centre Party.
• Peter Westerstrøm, mass murderer executed in Norway in 1809.

References

• Statistics Sweden

External links

• Ljungby Municipality - Official site