Hörby Municipality

Hörby is a municipality (Swedish kommun ) in the southern Swedish province of Skåne County and the historical province Scania. Center of the municipality is Hörby.

  • 4.1 Born in the village of Hörby
  • 4.2 Connected to the community Hörby

History

Hörby developed in the early Middle Ages to a commercial center. In the 17th century it was an inn in the 18th century it was a market town. Around 1880 Hörby was a railway junction and thereby an important local center. The church dates from the 12th century and was rebuilt in 1890.

Culture and sights

Museums

The courthouse is a museum. In addition, the resort is located north of the Boarpsstugan.

Structures

Hörby is primarily known as the site of a large transmission system of the Swedish broadcasting for shortwave broadcasting. The program of the Swedish foreign ministry spread like about the medium-wave transmitter in Sölvesborg - will have this system. On the site of the transmitter system is also a nearly 300 meter high guyed mast for FM radio and TV. In the transmitter building is still an exhibition hall.

Natural Monuments

The Hörby pasture is a nature reserve and holds the remains of the Iron Age

Regular events

Since 1748 every year on the first Wednesday and Thursday in July, the annual fair of Hörby instead.

Places

The following places are villages ( tätorter ):

  • Hörby
  • Ludvigsborg
  • Osbyholm

Personalities

Born in the village of Hörby

  • Victoria Benedictsson ( born March 6, 1850, the Good Domme, † June 21, 1888 in Copenhagen), writer

Connected with the community Hörby

  • Stefan Borg (born 1954 in Örebro ), literary translator and publisher, lives since the early 2000s with his wife Margitt Lehbert and their children within the community in the village Önneköp in the hamlet Rugerup; Owner of the place since then resident in book publishing Nimrod Förlag AB
  • Margitt Lehbert ( born February 12, 1957 in Geneva ), German literary translator and publisher, lives with her husband Stefan Borg and their children within the community in the village Önneköp in the hamlet Rugerup; Head of the German series in book publishing her husband, released under the name Rugerup Edition
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