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Landskrona is a city
Urban areas in Sweden

Urban area is a common English language translation of the Swedish language term t?tort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality....
 in the province
Provinces of Sweden

The provinces of Sweden, landskap, are historical, geographical and cultural regions. Sweden has 25 provinces and they have no administrative function, but remain historical legacies and the means of cultural identification....
 Scania
Scania

Scania may refer to:*Scania , Swedish truck manufacturer with origins in Scania.*Scania Market, annual market for herring in Scania during the Middle Ages...
 in southernmost Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
. It is the seat of Landskrona Municipality
Landskrona Municipality

Landskrona Municipality is a Municipalities of Sweden in Sk?ne County in Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Landskrona.The island of Ven was added to the City of Landskrona in 1959....
, Skåne County
Skåne County

Sk?ne County is the southernmost Counties of Sweden or l?n, of Sweden, basically corresponding to the historical Provinces of Sweden Scania....
 and has a population of about 29,000 out of a municipal total of 40,000.

History
The city of Landskrona was founded at the location of Scania
Scania

Scania may refer to:*Scania , Swedish truck manufacturer with origins in Scania.*Scania Market, annual market for herring in Scania during the Middle Ages...
's (at that time a part of Denmark
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
) best natural harbour, as a means of King Eric of Pomerania
Eric of Pomerania

Eric of Pomerania or Erik of Pomerania was King of Norway , elected King of Denmark , and of Sweden . He was the first male King of the Nordic Kalmar Union....
's anti-Hanseatic
Hanseatic League

The Hanseatic League was an Military alliance of Trade cities and their guilds that established and maintained trade monopoly along the coast of Northern Europe, from the Baltic Sea to the North Sea and inland, during the Late Middle Ages and Early modern period ....
 policy, intended to compete with Danish
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
 towns under Hanseatic control.






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Landskrona is a city
Urban areas in Sweden

Urban area is a common English language translation of the Swedish language term t?tort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality....
 in the province
Provinces of Sweden

The provinces of Sweden, landskap, are historical, geographical and cultural regions. Sweden has 25 provinces and they have no administrative function, but remain historical legacies and the means of cultural identification....
 Scania
Scania

Scania may refer to:*Scania , Swedish truck manufacturer with origins in Scania.*Scania Market, annual market for herring in Scania during the Middle Ages...
 in southernmost Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
. It is the seat of Landskrona Municipality
Landskrona Municipality

Landskrona Municipality is a Municipalities of Sweden in Sk?ne County in Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Landskrona.The island of Ven was added to the City of Landskrona in 1959....
, Skåne County
Skåne County

Sk?ne County is the southernmost Counties of Sweden or l?n, of Sweden, basically corresponding to the historical Provinces of Sweden Scania....
 and has a population of about 29,000 out of a municipal total of 40,000.

History


The city of Landskrona was founded at the location of Scania
Scania

Scania may refer to:*Scania , Swedish truck manufacturer with origins in Scania.*Scania Market, annual market for herring in Scania during the Middle Ages...
's (at that time a part of Denmark
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
) best natural harbour, as a means of King Eric of Pomerania
Eric of Pomerania

Eric of Pomerania or Erik of Pomerania was King of Norway , elected King of Denmark , and of Sweden . He was the first male King of the Nordic Kalmar Union....
's anti-Hanseatic
Hanseatic League

The Hanseatic League was an Military alliance of Trade cities and their guilds that established and maintained trade monopoly along the coast of Northern Europe, from the Baltic Sea to the North Sea and inland, during the Late Middle Ages and Early modern period ....
 policy, intended to compete with Danish
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
 towns under Hanseatic control. A Carmelite
Carmelites

The Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel or Carmelites is a Roman Catholic religious order perhaps founded in the 12th century on Mount Carmel, whence the order receives its name....
 monastery was founded in 1410, English merchants were granted the privileges in a royal charter in 1412, and the town itself was chartered in 1413. Landskrona was burned by the Hanseatic League in 1428.

The town supported the deposed king Christian II of Denmark
Christian II of Denmark

Christian II was a Danish monarch and King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden , under the Kalmar Union. Christian was born the son of King Hans of Denmark and Christina of Saxony, at Nyborg Castle in 1481 and succeeded his father as king and regent in Denmark and Norway, where he later was to be succeeded by his uncle King Frederick I of Denmar...
 (1525), and opposed the Reformation
Protestant Reformation

The Protestant Reformation was a Christian reform movement in Europe. It is thought to have begun in 1517 with Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses and may be considered to have ended with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648....
 in Denmark (1535), and in both cases found itself among the defeated. The Reformist King Christian III of Denmark
Christian III of Denmark

Christian III , king of Denmark and Norway, was the son of Frederick I of Denmark and his first consort, Anna of Brandenburg.His earliest teacher, Wolfgang von Utenhof, who came straight from Wittenberg, and the Lutheran Holsatian Johann Rantzau, who became his tutor, were both able and zealous reformers....
 abstained however from retaliation, and instead founded a castle
Castle

A castle is a defensive structure seen as one of the main symbols of the Middle Ages. The term has a history of scholarly debate surrounding its exact meaning, but it is usually regarded as being distinct from the general terms fort or fortress in that it describes a residence of a monarch or noble and commands a specific defensive territor...
 to protect the harbour. The castle, built where the monastery had been situated until the Reformation, was completed by 1560.

When Scania
Scania

Scania may refer to:*Scania , Swedish truck manufacturer with origins in Scania.*Scania Market, annual market for herring in Scania during the Middle Ages...
 had been ceded to Sweden in 1658, the good harbour and the strong fort were reasons for plans to make Landskrona a commercial center of the acquired territory with extraordinary privileges for foreign trade. The castle was reinforced by bastion
Bastion

A 'bastion' is a structure projecting outward from the main enclosure of a fortification, situated in both corners of a straight wall , with the shape of a sharp point, facilitating active defense against assaulting troops....
s, the area inside the moat
Moat

A moat is deep, broad trench, usually filled with water, that surrounds a structure, installation, or town, normally to provide it with a preliminary line of Defense ....
s extended to 400x400 meters, the castle was considered the strongest and most modern in Scandinavia
Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a historical and geographical subregion in northern Europe that includes the Scandinavian Peninsula. It consists of the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark; some authorities also include Finland and some might even include Iceland....
, but was temporarily lost to the Danes after a comparably short siege July 8-August 2 1676. The commandant Colonel Hieronymus Lindeberg was consequently sentenced to death for high treason.

Citadellet Landskrona


Any further plans for Landskrona were however not realized, for various reasons. The continued Swedish-Danish wars favoured Karlskrona
Karlskrona

Karlskrona is a urban areas in Sweden in the provinces of Sweden of Blekinge in south-eastern Sweden. It is the seat of Karlskrona Municipality and the captital of Blekinge County....
, located at a safer distance from Denmark, replacing Landskrona as a naval base, the fortifications were discontinued, and Malmö
Malmö

is the third most populous urban areas in Sweden in Sweden, situated in its southernmost province of Scania.Malm? is the seat of Malm? Municipality and the capital of Sk?ne County....
 remained the most important commercial town - despite Malmö lacking a harbour until the late 18th century. The fortifications at Landskrona were expanded considerably between 1747 and 1788, but were condemned in 1822, whereafter the garrison was abolished in 1869. The walls and moats of the fortifications are today a beautiful recreational area, commonly known as the Landskrona Citadel
Landskrona Citadel

Landskrona Citadel, , is situated in Landskrona, Scania, southern Sweden.External links* ...
.


Landskrona Station

Transport

Since January 2001 Landskrona has a new railway station on the main line between Malmö
Malmö

is the third most populous urban areas in Sweden in Sweden, situated in its southernmost province of Scania.Malm? is the seat of Malm? Municipality and the capital of Sk?ne County....
 and Gothenburg
Gothenburg

Gothenburg ) is the second largest city in Sweden after Stockholm and the fifth largest amongst the Nordic countries. The city is located on the south west-coast....
 along the Swedish west coast. The connection between the new station and the city centre, "The Station Shuttle", is operated with trolleybus
Trolleybus

A trolleybus is an electric bus that draws its electricity from a network of charged overhead wires using spring loaded trolley poles. Two poles are needed, so that one can draw down the live current to power the motor and the other can complete the circuit by carrying the neutral current back to the network....
es from 27 August 2003. Landskrona is now the only city in Sweden operating trolleybuses.

See also

  • List of Swedish wars
    List of Swedish wars

    This is a list of wars fought by Sweden between 1496 and 1814. Note that Sweden has, in fact, not been involved in any declared war since 1814:...
  • Ven
    Ven

    Ven may refer to:* Ven, Sweden, a Swedish island*Ven, Tajikistan* Ven , a hamlet in the Netherlands* Ven , a hamlet in the Netherlands* Ven , a hamlet in the Netherlands...
  • List of cities with trolleybuses


External links

  • - Official site
  • - Pictures from the construction of the trolleybus line (in Swedish)
  • - Local Newspaper