Country Sweden County Skåne County Time zone CET (UTC+1) Population 39,612 (31 Dec 2012) Clubs and Teams Rögle BK, Ängelholms FF | Province Skåne Municipality Ängelholm Municipality Area 12.83 km² Local time Sunday 12:02 AM | |
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Weather 6°C, Wind SE at 5 km/h, 97% Humidity Points of interest Ängelholm Historical Park, Järnvägens Museum Ängelholm, Der Grönvall´sche Garten | ||
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Ängelholm is a locality and the seat of Ängelholm Municipality in Scania, Sweden with 39,612 inhabitants in 2010.
Contents
- Train driver s view malm ngelholm
- Map of C384ngelholm Sweden
- History
- Contemporary
- Notable people
- References
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History
The old settlement Rynestad was mentioned around the year 1600. The new city got its charter from king Christian II of Denmark in 1516. The town remained small for centuries. Following the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658, Ängelholm, together with the rest of Scania, was assigned by Denmark to Sweden. The town began to grow in the 19th century due to industrialization. It was also a garrison town until 1883 and had an airforce base between 1941 and 2009. The older spelling Engelholm was retained until 1912, when the city council decided to adopt a more modern spelling in line with the Swedish spelling reform of 1906. The high-performance car manufucturer Koenigsegg Automotive is based on the premises of the decommissioned F 10 Ängelholm airbase.
Contemporary
Tourism is an important industry to the city. It has a 6-kilometer long sandy beach right outside the town. The winds in Skälderviken bay make the beach a resort for sailors, wave surfers and wind surfers.
There is also an ice cream manufacturer, Engelholms Glass which produces about 1.2 million litres of ice-cream every year.
A special sight of Ängelholm is the UFO-Memorial Ängelholm.
It is known for its clay cuckoos — a special kind of ocarina. This is however a dying tradition as there is now only one producer of clay cuckoos, Sofia Nilsson. Ängelholm has the only orchestra of clay cuckoos in the whole world with which performed at the "Allsång på Skansen" in 2007.
Ängelholm is also the home of hockey team Rögle BK which will compete in the SHL 2016-2017.