Uppåkra

Uppåkra [ ɵpo kra ː ] is located on the territory of today's community Staffanstorp the name of an Iron Age settlement and a former rural community and a still existing church in southern Sweden, Skåne, about five kilometers south of Lund. A place called Uppåkra there are now no more, but the settlement Bergströmshusen is unofficially referred to as Uppåkra.

The Iron Age settlement

Uppåkra was inhabited due to its strategic position on a hill in the Scanian level and near a prehistoric land route since the Stone Age. However, the oldest remains of a permanent settlement comes from the centuries around the time of Christ. Just a few centuries after the first settlements Uppåkra was the largest settlement in Scania and in southern Sweden. Around 400 AD it had, so take to researchers already about 1,000 inhabitants and a town-like settlement construction. Uppåkra took an area of ​​about 0.66 km ² and consisted of approximately 30 to 40 yards with residential and storage buildings, shop houses and stables.

From the middle of the 10th century no rich and varying finds more are suddenly recorded. The recent Arab coin was minted at this time, and also younger German and English coins occur only sporadically. The central function is transferred to the nearby city of Lund after the unification of Denmark and Christianization. During the Middle Ages ( 1050-1500 ) is Uppåkra all appearances, a rural settlement. In the near Lund has conducted excavations in the last 100 years. It can now say with certainty that the oldest layers dated to the 990s. Knowing this, it seems certain that we have the precursor of the city of Lund with Uppåkra before us, which was against the pagan center Uppåkra.

Gullåkra

Two kilometers east of the moor is Uppåkra Gullåkra, which had important function as Opfermoor during the Bronze and Iron Age A. A number of artifacts have been found here, especially in connection with the extraction of peat. There is a known Lure from the Late Bronze Age. Although the majority of the finds from earlier times come, there are objects from the time of Uppåkra including a bronze necklace and spear tips.

The community Uppåkra

The introduction of local self-government in 1862 ( municipalities) have been created in Sweden municipalities. These approximately 2,000 newly created municipalities included the community Stora Uppåkra. This name was changed in 1923 in Uppåkra. The name suffix Stora was superfluous, as there was no other municipality with names Uppåkra and the village of Lilla Uppåkra belonged to the community. During the municipal reorganization in Sweden Uppåkra in 1952 part of the municipality Staffanstorp.

The congregation Uppåkra

The congregation Uppåkra is one of two parishes of the Church of Sweden in the field of community Staffanstorp. It belongs to the diocese of Lund and the contract of Bara and was formed in 2002 by merging the parishes Uppåkra, Görslöv, Knästorp, Mölleberga, Särslöv and Tottarp. The same churches all belong to the parish Uppåkra, as is the cemetery of Flackarp on which until 1865 was also a church, but this was demolished. The bells of the church of stack Flackarp was inaugurated in 1954 after its restoration again and the bell of the church of Flackarp, which until then had hung in the church of Uppåkra, came back to their old place.