Sölvesborg Municipality

Sölvesborg is a municipality (Swedish kommun ) in the Swedish province of Blekinge County, the historical province of Blekinge. The main town of the municipality is Sölvesborg.

Each summer, the population of the municipality increases at twice. Tourists are mainly attracted by the sandy beaches of the Baltic Sea and cultural events such as the Sweden Rock Festival, which takes place in early June each year.

Geography

The municipality is situated on the Sölvesborg Hanöbukten and includes the island Hanö, which gave the name of the bay, with a.

History

In the municipal reform of 1952 from the parishes was ( socks ) Gammalstorp and Ysane the greater community ( storkommun ) Gammalstorp that the city and its surroundings with Sölvesborg included. On January 1, 1971, the municipality Sölvesborg then formed from the merger of the city and the communities Sölvesborg Mjallby and Gammalstorp.

Policy

Parish council

The municipal council (Swedish kommunfullmäktige ) Sölvesborg has 49 seats. The most recent election was held in 2006. Since then, the seats are allocated as follows:

Chairman of the Municipal Council is Stig Jönsson ( s ). His two deputies are Peter Jeppsson ( s ) and Jeppe Johnsson (m).

Parish Council

Sölvesborgs parish council, the senior political governing body, has 15 members and an equal number of alternate members. The seats on the town council distributed as follows:

Chairman of the municipal executive board is Heléne Björklund ( s ). Her two deputies are Gunbritt Hedén (m) and Per- Olov Larsen ( s ). Contact person for civil defense (Swedish hemvärnet ) is Alve Ohlsson ( s ). Within the municipal executive board, there are three committees, the working committee with seven members (Chair: Heléne Björklund ), the Personnel Committee, also with seven members (Chairman: Per- Olov Larsen ) and the three-member Economic Committee ( Chairman: Heléne Björklund ).

Places

Places ( tätorter ) in the municipality are classified by Population:

• Sölvesborg
• Mjallby
• Hörvik
• Hällevik
• Norje

• Nogersund
• Lörby
• Ysane
• Pukavik
• Valje

Twin Cities

Sölvesborg has five sister cities:

• Danemark Denmark: Municipality of Bornholm Since 1947 is twinned with Nexø on Bornholm; since the Bornholm municipalities were merged into one in 2003, the partnership reaches out to the entire community Bornholm.

• The city in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern since 1991 twinned Sölvesborg.

• The partnership with Malbork has existed since 1998.

• Sortavala since 1997, is twinned with Sölvesborg. In 1998, a fundraiser for the people of Sortavala took place in Sölvesborg, which was made ​​to feel extremely good.

• The partnership with Ukmergė exists since 2000.