Trelleborg

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Trelleborg
Trelleborg coat of arms
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Trelleborg
Trelleborg
Localization of Skåne in Sweden
State : Sweden
Province  (län): Skåne County
Historical Province (landskap): Gentle
Municipality  : Trelleborg
Coordinates : 55 ° 22 ′  N , 13 ° 10 ′  E Coordinates: 55 ° 22 ′  N , 13 ° 10 ′  E
SCB code : 3752
Status: Crime scene
Residents : 29,316 (December 31, 2015)
Area : 15.5 km²
Population density : 1891 inhabitants / km²
List of perpetrators in Skåne County
Historic Trelleborg water tower from 1911 in the city park (height 58 m)
Trelleborgen
The castle gate
Palm trees near the harbor

Trelleborg ( standard Swedish : [ ˌtɾɛlˑəˈbɔɪ̯ ]; urban dialect: [ ˌtʁɑlˑəˈbɔɪ̯ ]) is a city in the Swedish province of Skåne län and the historic province of Skåne . The southernmost city in Sweden is located around 30 km south of Malmö in the Öresund region . Trelleborg is the main town in the Trelleborg municipality .

History and sights

The old buildings around the Gamla Torg (old market place) and the monastery ruins (monastery grounds) are worth seeing. Not far from Trelleborg you will also find the Skegriedösen , with an age of over 5000 years. The Langdolmen is located directly on the European route 6 and is surrounded by 18 stones.

In the Viking Age , after 980, King Sven Gabelbart had the Trelleborg ( Danish / Swedish trelleborg ) built, but it was abandoned from the year 1000. Partly reconstructed, it is now open to the public again. Today, after 1000 years of oblivion, Trelleborg is rising again, but only about a quarter of it has been reconstructed. The construction of the Viking castle began in the spring of 1994. The castle in Skåne, Sweden is the fifth rediscovered facility of the so-called "Trelleborg type", four of which are in Denmark: Trelleborg / Zealand island, Nonnebakken / Funen island, Fyrkat in East Jutland and Aggersborg in North Jutland. The new landmark of the Swedish city was created exactly where it was discovered in 1988. The reconstructed Trelleborg is now as it was then as an imposing structure made of wood and earth. Two modern “rune stones” found their place in the park area in front of the castle wall. The "rune inscription" of the larger one translates into German: "Traces of the earth spoke in our time, and the castle that gave the city its name was built again." (Quote L. Mohr 1999, p. 100)

The place was first mentioned in writing in 1257, when Trelleborg, together with nearby Malmö , was given a wedding gift from the Danish King Erik Plovpenning to the young bride and groom Sophie of Denmark , his daughter, and Valdemar Birgersson, who was King of Sweden as Waldemar I have been done. However, Trelleborg was soon retaken by the Danes. The place finally went to Sweden in 1658 ( Peace of Roskilde ) when Denmark lost all of Skåne to Sweden.

Trelleborg lost its city status in April 1619 and only regained full city ​​rights in 1867, after it had been granted the status of a trading city in 1840.

The church of St. Nicolai is from the 19th century and the original church from the 13th century. In the city museum, which focuses on the prehistory and early history of the region, there are also temporary exhibitions about the Viking Age. The Ebbes Konsthall shows sculptures by the sculptor Axel Ebbe and changing exhibitions.

Axel Ebbe also created a statue of a naked woman who has been looking over the harbor since 1930. Birgit Holmquist, the grandmother of the American actress Uma Thurman , was the model for the work of art entitled Famntaget (Eng. "Embrace") .

On the east side of the community cemetery is a German burial ground with 103 war dead from the Second World War and 10 fallen from the First World War , who found their final resting place here in neutral Sweden.

In order to make the southern location of the city clearer, every summer the city administration sets up buckets with palm trees on the street that runs parallel to the harbor.

traffic

In 1909 the ferry route to Sassnitz was opened, the so-called royal line . After the Second World War, the route to Lübeck-Travemünde became the most important. In the 1980s, the TT-Line's sister ships Nils Holgersson and Peter Pan ran every seven hours on the route to and from Travemünde ; from Sassnitz on Rügen the Sassnitz and Rügen drove every four hours. Combined transport of cars, trucks and railways existed only on the Sassnitz – Trelleborg route.

After German reunification , traffic to Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania increased noticeably. There were rail ferry connections from Trelleborg to Sassnitz and Rostock . From 1998 to 2012 these lines were operated by SweFerry ( Stena Line ) or Scandlines , then Stena Line took over this line. The transport of railway wagons was stopped in the summer of 2014 on the royal line. TT-Line ferries also run to Rostock and Travemünde. The Polish shipping company Unity Line offers a ferry connection to Swinoujscie .

The Malmö – Trelleborg railway runs on a S-Bahn-like traffic ( Pågatåg ). The Berlin – Malmö long-distance train runs via Trelleborg via the Königslinie. The city is also connected by bus to Malmö, 30 km away.

The European route 22 , coming from Norrköping and Kalmar , leads via ferry to Sassnitz.

economy

Trelleborgs Hamn AB

Entrance (Travemündeallén) to the port of Trelleborg
Trelleborg harbor

All activities in the port are now in the hands of Trelleborgs Hamn AB, which was created in 1999 through the merger of Trelleborg Terminal AB and Trelleborgs hamn. The company has three business areas: port, transshipment and real estate. The company has 97 employees and a turnover of around 150 million Swedish kronor.

Trelleborg's port is one of the largest ferry and RoRo ports in Scandinavia. In 2014, 10.3 million tons of goods and 1.7 million passengers were handled. Trelleborg is the floating bridge to the continent - the direct route to and from Europe with over 34 daily connections.

Trelleborg AB

Trelleborg is the headquarters of the conglomerate Trelleborg AB , which has 25,000 employees in 40 countries.

Twin cities

sons and daughters of the town

literature

  • Sascha Grosser: As a guest in ... Trelleborg - A city documentary. GroxMedia Verlag in cooperation with Historic IG Trelleborg, 2019.
  • Fredrik Svanberg: Vikingatiden i Skåne . Lund 2000.
  • Bengt Jacobsson and others: Trelleborgen - en av Harald Blåtands danska ringborgar. Trelleborgs kommun, Trelleborg 1995.
  • Ingela Jacobsson: The little book about Trelleborg. Translation into German by Claudius H. Riegler. Trelleborgs Museum, Trelleborg 1997.
  • Lutz Mohr : The two "rune stones" at the reconstructed "Trelleborg" in the city of Trelleborg / province of Skane (Scania), Kingdom of Sweden. In: Stone Cross Research. Studies on German and international land monument research (SKF). Series of monographs. Edited by Rainer H. Schmeissner. Volume No. 10, Regensburg 1999, pp. 99-101.

Web links

Commons : Trelleborg  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Trelleborg  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Statistiska centralbyrån : Land area per Tatort, folkmängd and invånare per square kilometer. Vart femte år 1960 - 2015 (database query)
  2. ↑ (Danish: Langdysse) is the name commonly used in Denmark and Sweden for dolmens that lie in a rectangular barn bed, in contrast to that, round dolmens are those dolmens that lie in a round hill
  3. ↑ Uma Thurmans mormor staty i Trelleborg - article in Sydsvenskan about the statue at the port of Trelleborg ( Memento from June 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ^ Rail traffic relocated , THB - Deutsche Schiffahrts-Zeitung , April 28, 2014: “In future, the Stena Line will no longer ship railway wagons from Sassnitz to Scandinavia. The railway traffic will be relocated to Rostock in mid-June, said a spokesman for the shipping company. "
  5. ↑ http://www.trafikverket.se/Privat/Projekt/Skane/Malmo-Trelleborg/
  6. ↑ http://www.trelleborgshamn.se/filearchive/4/4242/THAB_arsredovisning_2014.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.trelleborgshamn.se