Lund

	City arms
	55° 42´ N 13° 12´ E
	Charter	City (990)
	Municipality	Lund Municipality
	County	Skåne County
	Province	Skåne
	Population	102 257 (Dec 31, 2005)[1]

Lund (help· info) IPA: [lɵnd] is a city in Skåne in southern Sweden. The city is held to have been founded around 990, when the Scanian lands belonged to Denmark. It soon became the Christian center of Northern Europe with an archbishop and with the towering Lund Cathedral, built in 1103. Download high resolution version (328x714, 25 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... City Arms of Lund, Sweden Found on www. ... This is a list of cities, towns, and market towns (köpings) in Sweden, that held their town privileges (Stadsprivilegium) by Royal Charter or by being established since ancient times. ... Events Construction of the Al-Hakim Mosque begins in Cairo. ... The Municipalities or Kommuner represent the local level of self government in Sweden. ... Lunds kommun is a municipality in Skåne County in southernmost Sweden. ... A county, or län, is an administrative and political subdivision of Sweden. ... SkÃ¥ne County, or SkÃ¥ne län, is the southernmost County or län, of Sweden, basically corresponding to the historical province SkÃ¥ne. ... The provinces or landskap were the subdivisions of Sweden until 1634, when they were replaced by the counties of Sweden (län). ... The Flag of SkÃ¥ne (also known as Scania in English) is the southernmost historical province (landskap) and County (Län) of Sweden. ... Image File history File links Sv-Lund. ... For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words see here. ... The notion of towns and cities in SkÃ¥ne is somewhat problematic or controversial, as the Scanian usage of the Swedish terms for city/town and village differ somewhat from that in the rest of Sweden, and may be considered related to the Danish usage. ... The Flag of SkÃ¥ne (also known as Scania in English) is the southernmost historical province (landskap) and County (Län) of Sweden. ... Events Construction of the Al-Hakim Mosque begins in Cairo. ... SkÃ¥neland is a denomination for the area once making up the eastern part of Denmark, which was permanently ceded to Sweden under the Treaty of Roskilde (1658). ... Christianity is a monotheistic[1] religion centered on Jesus of Nazareth, and on his life and teachings as presented in the New Testament. ... Northern Europe is marked in dark blue Northern Europe is a name of the northern part of the European continent. ... In Christianity, an archbishop is an elevated bishop. ... Lund Cathedral Byggnaden The Lund Cathedral, or Lunds Domkyrka, is a cathedral in Lund, Sweden. ... Events April 27 - Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, goes into exile after falling out with Henry I of England Amadeus III becomes Count of Savoy Bohemund I of Antioch is released from imprisonment among the Turks The Scandinavian city of Lund becomes a see within the Roman Catholic Church Births February...

It is the home of Lund University, one of Sweden's largest research universites. The city itself today has about 74,000 inhabitants not counting all temporary students. The Lund Municipality with 102 257^[1] inhabitants includes several surrounding small towns and villages, particularly to the east. The municipality includes Dalby and the adjacent Dalby Söderskog national park. Lund University main building, from 1882 by Helgo Zettervall. ... Students attending a lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology The word student is etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb stÅ­dÄ“rÄ•, meaning to direct ones zeal at; hence a student is one who directs zeal at a subject. ... Lunds kommun is a municipality in Skåne County in southernmost Sweden. ... A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. ... The Holy Cross Church in Dalby Dalby is a small Scanian town about 10 kilometres east-south-east for Lund, and about 20 kilometres east-north-east for Malmö, and the site for the oldest stone church in Scandinavia. ... Dalby Söderskog is a national park in the province of Scania in southern Sweden, situated in the municipality of Lund. ... Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales, UK A national park is a reserve of land, usually declared and owned by a national government, protected from most human development and pollution. ...

History

Lund Cathedral

The foundation of Lund remains unclear. Until recently, the town was thought to have been founded by King Canute the Great around 1020, however, recent archeological discoveries suggest that the first settlement was founded around 990, when the village of Uppåkra was moved to Lund's location, by King Sweyn I Forkbeard. The distance is only some five kilometres, but Lund is located on a hill, and on the other side of a rivulet-ford, giving the new site considerable defensive advantages compared to Uppåkra, that is situated on the highest point of a rather large plain. Beside new techniques of warfare, the relocation is believed to signify the process of unification of Denmark. Photo of the Cathedral in Lund, Sweden, taken by Hankwang on 2 April 2004. ... Photo of the Cathedral in Lund, Sweden, taken by Hankwang on 2 April 2004. ... Lund Cathedral Byggnaden The Lund Cathedral, or Lunds Domkyrka, is a cathedral in Lund, Sweden. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Events Hospice built in Jerusalem by Knights Hospitaller City of Saint-Germain-en-Laye founded Third Italian campaign of Henry II of Germany Canute the Great codifies the laws of England Births Harold II of England (approximate) Empress Agnes of Poitou, regent of the Holy Roman Empire (d. ... Archaeology or sometimes in American English archeology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... Events Construction of the Al-Hakim Mosque begins in Cairo. ... UppÃ¥kra is a village located five kilometres south of Lund in Scania in southernmost Sweden. ... Sweyn I Forkbeard (actually Svein Otto Haraldsson; in Danish, Svend Tveskæg, originally Svend Tjugeskæg or Tyvskæg) (circa 960 - February 3, 1014). ... km redirects here. ... For other uses of War, see War (disambiguation). ...

The city was made see in 1060, and in 1103 made the site of the archbishop for Scandinavia. The Lund Cathedral was similarly founded in or shortly after 1103. In 1152, the Norwegian archdiocese of Nidaros was founded as a separate province of the church, independent of Lund. In 1164 Sweden also got an archbishop of its own, although nominally subordinate to the archbishop of Lund. A see (from the Latin word sedem, meaning seat) is the throne (cathedra) of a bishop. ... Events May - The Norman leader Robert Guiscard conquers Taranto. ... Events April 27 - Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, goes into exile after falling out with Henry I of England Amadeus III becomes Count of Savoy Bohemund I of Antioch is released from imprisonment among the Turks The Scandinavian city of Lund becomes a see within the Roman Catholic Church Births February... In Christianity, an archbishop is an elevated bishop. ... Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe. ... Lund Cathedral Byggnaden The Lund Cathedral, or Lunds Domkyrka, is a cathedral in Lund, Sweden. ... Events March 4 - Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans Eleanor of Aquitaine has her marriage to Louis VII annulled May 18 - Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Henry of Anjou Church of Ireland acknowledges Popes authority Almohad Dynasty conquers Algeria Establishment of the archbishopric of Nidaros (Trondheim), Norway... In some Christian churches, the diocese is an administrative territorial unit governed by a bishop, sometimes also referred to as a bishopric or episcopal see, though more often the term episcopal see means the office held by the bishop. ... Nidaros was the old name of Trondheim, Norway, in the middle ages. ... Events Count Henry I of Champagne marries Marie de Champagne. ...

Lund University main building, from 1882 by Helgo Zettervall.

Lund Cathedral School (Katedralskolan) was founded in 1085 by the Danish king Canute the Saint. This is the oldest school in Scandinavia and one of the oldest in Northern Europe. Many well-known people have attended it, among whom actor Max von Sydow and several high ranking politicians. Large photo of Lund University main building, taken and contributed by User:Nixdorf. ... Large photo of Lund University main building, taken and contributed by User:Nixdorf. ... The main building of the Swedish Lund University was designed by architect Helgo Zettervall and inaugurated in 1882. ... Helgo Zettervall, 1901 Helgo Zettervall, older spelling Zetterwall, (November 21, 1831 – 1907) was a Swedish architect and professor of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. ... Cathedral School, Lund, in 2005. ... Events May 25 - Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain back from the Moors. ... Canute IV, (1040 — 1086), also known as Canute the Saint and Canute the Holy, was Denmark from 1080 until 1086. ... Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe. ... Max von Sydow as Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon (help· info) (born April 10, 1929) is a Swedish actor, known in particular for his collaboraton with Ingmar Bergman. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

In 1658, all Scanian counties except the island Anholt, were ceded by Denmark to Sweden by the Treaty of Roskilde. On December 4 in 1676 it was defended in the Battle of Lund, one of the bloodiest battles fought in Scandinavia. Events January 13 - Edward Sexby, who had plotted against Oliver Cromwell, dies in Tower of London February 6 - Swedish troops of Charles X Gustav of Sweden cross The Great Belt (Storebælt) in Denmark over frozen sea May 1 - Publication of Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and The Garden of Cyrus by... Skåneland is a denomination for the area once making up the eastern part of Denmark, which was permanently ceded to Sweden under the Treaty of Roskilde (1658). ... Anholt is a Danish island in the Kattegat. ... The Treaty of Roskilde was signed on February 26, 1658 in the Danish city Roskilde, whereby the king of Denmark-Norway sacrificed nearly half his territory to save the rest. ... December 4 is the 338th day (339th on leap years) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Events January 29 - Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia First measurement of the speed of light, by Ole Rømer Bacons Rebellion Russo-Turkish Wars commence. ... This article needs copyediting (checking for proper English spelling, grammar, usage, etc. ...

Lund University, established in 1666 as a means of "Swedification", is Sweden's largest with 41,000 full- or part-time students, though not all students actually live in Lund (the figure includes Lund Institute of Technology which is in some ways independent of the old University). As late as the 1940s, Lund was a relatively small city with few large-scale industries, covering only about a fourth of the current urban area and was dominated by the Cathedral and the University. Since then, the student population has increased about twelvefold, many industrial companies in the chemical, medical or electronics branches and, more recently, within information management, have set up establishments in the city, and the town's population, architecture and pulse has been transformed. Lund University main building, from 1882 by Helgo Zettervall. ... 1666 is often called Annus Mirabilis. ... A student nation is a society of students at universities in Sweden, mainly the two oldest Uppsala University and Lund University. ... The Lund Institute of Technology or Lunds Tekniska Högskola (LTH) is a university school, at Lund University, in Lund, Sweden. ... The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949. ...

Compared to many other swedish cities, however, the urban heart of Lund is very well preserved, and there is even a local law demanding archaeological exploration, if it has not been carried out before, on any downtown property which is set to be razed and rebuilt; this, and a lively local opinion, makes it difficult to initiate large-scale redevelopment of some parts of the city centre.

Geography

As an unavoidable consequence of Lund being located on a hill, albeit very gently sloping, the city has a considerable difference in altitude — which is of particular disadvantage to the many students and others who use bicycles as their main means of transportation. The difference in altitude is about 80 meters from the lowest point in the south to the highest point in the north. This racing bicycle is built using lightweight, shaped aluminium tubing and carbon fiber stays and forks. ...

Lund is located in Sweden's largest agricultural district, less than 10 km from the sandy shore of the Öresund Straits and about 16 km from Malmö. From the top of the hill Sankt Hans Backar it is possible to spot Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. In the eastern part of the Lund municipality there is forest, mainly decidious. Northern Öresund Oresund (Öresund in Swedish or Øresund in Danish) or The Sound, is the strait that separates Zealand from Scania, and thereby Denmark from Sweden. ... View over Malmö IPA: /málmø:/ is the third largest city in Sweden, situated in the southernmost province of SkÃ¥ne. ... Copenhagen (IPA: , rhyming with pagan (the way the Danes themselves pronounce the name of the capital in English), or , with a as in spa; Danish   IPA: ) is the capital of Denmark and the countrys largest city (metropolitan population 1,211,542 (2006)), at present made up of 16 municipalities. ... In politics, a capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has a second meaning based on an alternative sense of capital) is the principal city or town associated with a countrys government. ... Deciduous means temporary or tending to fall off (deriving from the Latin word decidere, to fall off). ...

Industry

Lund is home to the Tetra Pak company that manufactures and markets paper packaging and equipment for milk, orange juice etc. all over the world. Sony Ericsson develops cell phone handsets in Lund based on platforms Ericsson Mobile Platforms (EMP) develop and sell to several cell phone manufacturs. Other important industries include medical technology (Gambro), pharmaceuticals (Astra Zeneca), biotechnology (Active Biotech, among others), (Alfa Laval) and publishing and library services. Tetra Pak, (of Swedish origin), is a multinational food packaging company. ... Juice is a fluid naturally contained in animal or plant tissue. ... Sony Ericsson is a joint venture established in 2001 by the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to make mobile phones. ... Motorola T2288 mobile phone A mobile phone is a portable electronic device which behaves as a normal telephone whilst being able to move over a wide area (compare cordless phone which acts as a telephone only within a limited range). ... Ericsson Mobile Platforms AB is the name of the company within the Ericsson group that supplies mobile platforms, i. ... Gambro is a Swedish medical technology company. ... Pharmacology (in Greek: pharmacon is drug, and logos is science) is the study of how chemical substances interfere with living systems. ... AstraZeneca PLC, is a large Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company formed on 6 April 1999 by the merger of Swedish Astra AB and British Zeneca Group PLC. Zeneca was part of Imperial Chemical Industries prior to a demerger in 1993. ... Alfa Laval is a Swedish company, founded in 1883 by Gustaf de Laval and Oscar Lamm. ...

The Cathedral School

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The Lund Principle

The "Lund Principle" is an important principle in ecumenical relations between Christian churches. It affirms that churches should act together in all matters except those in which deep differences of conviction compel them to act separately. It was agreed by the 1952 Faith and Order Conference of the World Council of Churches held at Lund. 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The World Council of Churches (WCC) is the principal international Christian ecumenical organization. ...

Twin Cities

Lund has a twin city in each of the Nordic countries, as well as others spread over the world. ^[2]

• Viborg, Denmark
• Hamar, Norway
• Borgå, Finland
• Dalvík, Iceland

• Nevers, France
• León, Nicaragua
• Greifswald, Germany
• Zabrze, Poland

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Education

• Lund University
• Lund Institute of Technology
• Lund School of Economics and Management
• Royal Swedish Physiographic Society

Lund University main building, from 1882 by Helgo Zettervall. ... The Lund Institute of Technology or Lunds Tekniska Högskola (LTH) is a university school, at Lund University, in Lund, Sweden. ... Main building The Lund School of Economics and Management or Ekonomihögskolan is a business school at Lund University in Lund, Sweden. ... The Royal Swedish Physiographic Society in Lund or , is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden. ...

Notable natives

• Magnus Gustafsson
• Carl Fredrik Hill
• Kai M Siegbahn
• Henrik Sundström
• Max von Sydow
• Joachim Johansson

Magnus Nils Gustafsson (born January 3, 1967, in Lund, Sweden) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. ... Carl Fredrik Hill (31 May 1849 - 22 February 1911) was a Swedish painter. ... Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn (born April 20, 1918) is a Swedish physicist. ... Henrik Sundström (born February 29, 1964 in Lund) is a former tennis player from Sweden, who won five single titles during his professional career. ... Max von Sydow as Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon (help· info) (born April 10, 1929) is a Swedish actor, known in particular for his collaboraton with Ingmar Bergman. ... Joachim Johansson (born January 7, 1982) is a professional male tennis player from Sweden. ...

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} http://www.lund.se/templates/Page____1660.aspx
2. ^ http://www.lund.se/templates/Page____2731.aspx

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Lund

• Lund Municipality - Official site (Swedish) (English)
• Lund travel guide from Wikitravel

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Other uses

• Lund is also the name of a caste in the Sindh province of Pakistan
• Lund is a municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway. (See Lund, Norway)

Lund is one of 134 towns with the historical City status in Sweden.

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