Burlöv Municipality

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**Burlöv Municipality (*Kommun*)**
Burlöv in Scania (Skåne) Map outlining municipalities of Sweden	Coat of arms
	Municipal facts
	Seat	Arlöv
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	County	Skåne County
	Province	Scania
	Area Rank	19 km² 289th of 290
	Population Rank (2005)	15,295 145th of 290
	Density	812/km²

Burlöv Municipality is a municipality in Skåne County in southern Sweden, just north of Malmö. It is the second smallest municipality in Sweden with an area of 18.9 km².

The municipal seat is located in the town of Arlöv, which has come to form a conurbation with the city of Malmö to the south.

1 Geography
2 Demography
3 Towns
4 Culture and history
5 Notes and external links

[edit] Geography

The municipality has no forests, lakes, or streams, but has an abundance of high-voltage power grids, highways and railroads, as it is on the main line from Malmö to northern Sweden. Like the rest of Scania, much land is used for agriculture and there are several old farms, mills and other sights from the last centuries in the vicinity.

[edit] Demography

The population of Burlöv has increased with almost 1,000 persons between 1986 and 2003, but it decreased last year. The largest part of the population increase has been due to high birth rates. Moving rates have played a small part, and is rather equalled, where – as is normal in smaller communities – young people move out and families with children move in.

[edit] Towns

The population is chiefly divided between:

Arlöv, with 8,800 inh.
Åkarp, with 5,300 inh.
Burlövs egnahem, with 600 inh.

Arlöv is an early industrialized town dominated by multi-storey apartment buildings, with a working class character. Its largest industry is Arlöv Sugar Factory, to which large amounts of sugar beets are transported from all around Scania.

In Arlöv, the Burlöv Centre is also located. It is a large shopping mall in the region, but considered rather expensive.

Åkarp and Burlövs egnahem, consist of detached house districts. They have a suburban character from where people commute to commercial centres and work within the metropolitan area of South-Western Scania.

Burlöv Old Church

[edit] Culture and history

Arlöv is located in the vicinity of agricultural fields, where the Old Church of Burlöv can be found, in the Burlöv Village. One of the oldest churches in Scania, it has mostly remained the way it was built in the 12th century, with its oldest parts concreted out of sandstone.

The coat of arms depict a sugar beet which was the chief industry for a while (E.g. the large Arlöv's Sugar Factory), and a star that symbolizes the Hvilan folk high school which was among the first group of folk high schools that were established in 1868. [1]