Jämshög

Jämshög
Jämshög
State :	Sweden
Province  (län):	Blekinge län
Historical Province (landskap):	Blekinge
Municipality  :	Olofström
Coordinates :	56 ° 14 '  N , 14 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 14 '  N , 14 ° 32'  E
Residents :	1599

Jämshög Church. Since Olofström, the capital of the municipality of the same name, does not have its own cemetery, many people are buried in the Jämshöger cemetery.

Jämshög is a crime scene in the municipality of Olofström in Sweden . The village is in the province of Blekinge and the historic province of Blekinge .

The main town of the municipality, Olofström , is about three kilometers north of Jämshög. Riksväg 15 and Länsväg 116, K 539, K 541, K 579 and K 607 run through the village. The Sölvesborg – Olofström – Älmhults Järnväg railway line has been closed in the Jämshög area.

Holjeån flows through Jämshög .

statistics

The place has an area of ​​235 hectares and almost 1600 inhabitants (as of 2018).

Personalities

• Harry Martinson (1904–1978), 1974 Nobel Prize for Literature
• Kalle Berglund (* 1996), athlete
• Sven Edvin Salje , author

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Folkmängd och land area i ttorter, per ttort. Vart femte år 1960 - 2018. Accessed September 11, 2019 .