- Trelleborg
Infobox Settlement
official_name = Trelleborg
image_caption = AViking ring castle inTrelleborg
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name =Sweden
subdivision_type1 = Municipality
subdivision_name1 =Trelleborg Municipality
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 =Skåne County
subdivision_type3 = Province
subdivision_name3 =Skåne
area_footnotes = cite web |title=Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km2 2000 och 2005 |publisher=Statistics Sweden |url=http://www.scb.se/statistik/MI/MI0810/2005A01B/T%E4torternami0810tab1.xls |format=xls |language=Swedish |accessdate=2008-05-15]
area_total_km2 = 11.22
population_as_of = 2005-12-31
population_footnotes =
population_total = 25,643
population_density_km2 = 2286
timezone = CET
utc_offset = +1
timezone_DST = CEST
utc_offset_DST = +2
latd=55 |latm=22 |lats= |latNS=N
longd=13 |longm=10 |longs= |longEW=E
website =Trelleborg is the southernmost city in
Sweden and the seat ofTrelleborg Municipality inSkåne County . It has a population of 25,643 (2005) out of a municipal total of 40,000.History
The earliest written record of Trelleborg is from 1257, when Trelleborg and the adjacent city of
Malmö were presented as a wedding gift from the Danish royal family to the Swedish Prince Valdemar. It was soon reconquered by the Danes, and it belonged to Denmark until 1658, whenScania was lost to Sweden by theTreaty of Roskilde .In medieval times, Trelleborg had an important part in
herring fishing. At that time, this was conducted along the entire coast line 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 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 order to favour Malmö.Not until 1840 was Trelleborg allowed to become a merchant city, and not until 1867 it regained its rights as 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. The local government reform of 1971 made Trelleborg the seat ofTrelleborg Municipality , covering both rural and urban areas.The name
The first written record of the name is from 1291, "Threlæburgh". The name is found in many places in
Scandinavia [Svenskt ortnamnslexikon 2003] . "Borg" means "castle" or "stronghold" and "träl" can be thrall, but can also refer to the leaning poles on the outside of the mideval viking stronghold. Remains of the original stronghold were excavated in 1988.Today
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 the work of the influential businessman Johan Kock. Other important industries he established were "Akzo Nobel Inks", 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 a working-class oriented city and is politically a traditional stronghold for the
Swedish Social Democratic Party .It is today often visited by people travelling from Sweden to
Germany because of the ferries toRostock ,Sassnitz andLübeck -Travemünde in Germany. These ferries began sailing onMay 1 ,1897 with the Sassnitz line; the route to Travemünde was established in 1962, while the line to the formerEast German city Rostock was inaugurated after the fall of theBerlin 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 toRussia to lead the Revolution.Today Trelleborg has the second largest
seaport of Sweden, behindGothenburg . 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.Uma Thurman 's grandmother, the mother ofNena von Schlebrügge , was the model for this statue. [ [http://sydsvenskan.se/nojen/article173376.ece Uma Thurmans mormor staty i Trelleborg] , "Sydsvenskan ", 30 July 2006. sv icon]References
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