Degeberga

Degeberga is a place ( tätort ) in the Swedish province of Skåne County and the historical province Scania. The village, located in the municipality of Kristianstad, is known for the Forsakar nature reserve with the two highest waterfalls in Skåne.

History

In and around Degeberga there are about 15 remains from prehistoric times, including a stone ship and several grave sites. Most of these archaeological sites date from the Iron Age, including about a stone circle ( domarring ), located at the upper edge of the village. Even in the Iron Age the area in Degeberga - to have served as Thingstätte and Trade - as is evident from the finds. On the way between Degeberga and Östra Sönnarslöv there are several burial mounds and another stone circle from the early Iron Age. Degeberga was first mentioned in several documents from the 14th century. Even before that but it seems to have been sedentary farmers, the building began apparently even before the first mention of the name Degeberga. The name of the location containing the elements " mountain " and " degenerative ", the latter can be either " swamp " or simply mean "large." The name could then be translated as " the great mountain ", indicating the Linderödsåsen, the southern Swedish altitude area that extends from Degeberga to Höör. The first houses were already built but probably earlier than; the Romanesque church may have come from the 13th century.

Population Development

Infrastructure, culture and management

Degeberga is located on the National Highway 19 between Ystad and Kristianstad. In the village there is a library ( bibliotek Degeberga ), a school ( Degeberga skola ), a grocery store, a treatment and care center and a public dental care and a retirement home. Outside the town is a golf course on which was founded in 1988 Degeberga - Widtsköfle GK trained the local golf club. Since Degeberga close to the Baltic Sea ( about ten kilometers from the Hanöbukten ), tourism is an important economic factor. The local company Degeberga stugby AB sells and rents holiday homes.

Every year in Degeberga is a market, but they can not keep up with the larger and better known in Kivik. In home park ( Hembygdsparken ) Also every year there is a traditional music festival in their home park, where the Midsummer Fire and various antiques and collectors markets take place.

Previously Degeberga was the capital of an eponymous own municipality (in Swedish kommun ), this was incorporated but resolved within the framework of municipal reform in 1974 and Degeberga to Kristianstad. The name Degeberga now bears only the Degeberga tätort and Degeberga församling ( " parish "). It is tätort state - administrative, while församling in the ecclesiastical and administrative hierarchy of the Church of Sweden Diocese of Lund ( Lund pin ) and Villands och Gärds is subordinate contract-. The Church of the församling is the Degeberga kyrka.

Nature

The tourist resort is located within Kristianstad Vattenrike ( " Kristianstad Water Realm" ), an extensive wetland in the area around the city of Kristianstad. Near Degeberga are two nature reserves: Forsakar and Degeberga backar. The ten -acre Forsakar - area hosts a stream that forms the two largest waterfalls in Skåne here: The Forsakarsbäcken ( " Forsakar -Bach " ) originates in Linderödsåsen, a mountain ridge in northern Skåne, and crashes near Degeberga in an eight or ten feet high waterfall two gorges down. The nature reserve was set up in 1929 after three dams had been built already, which served for the generation of hydroelectric power. Today, the creek has formed a passed with Book gorge through which it now flows. About two miles behind the Forsakar Forsakarsbäcken disappears in the ground and first appears near Vittskövle again. In this valley, rare animal and plant species have settled, including the protected dark blue ground beetle ( Carabus intricatus ), the wagtails, dippers, the oriole and the forest - Dog's Mercury. Even Carl Linnaeus visited Forsakar on 2 May in 1749.