Trelleborg

Trelleborg
Trelleborg town hall
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 55°22′N 13°10′E / 55.367°N 13.167°E / 55.367; 13.167Coordinates: 55°22′N 13°10′E / 55.367°N 13.167°E / 55.367; 13.167
Country	Sweden
Province	Scania
County	Skåne County
Municipality	Trelleborg Municipality
Area
• Total	13.66 km2 (5.27 sq mi)
Population (31 December 2015)
• Total	43,359
• Density	2,071/km2 (5,360/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)

Trelleborg is a locality and the seat of Trelleborg Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden, with 28,290 inhabitants in 2010. It is the southernmost town in Sweden.

The earliest written record of Trelleborg is from 1257, when Trelleborg was presented as a wedding gift from the Danish royal family to the Swedish Prince Valdemar. It was soon reconquered by the Danes, and it belonged to Denmark until 1658, when Scania was lost to Sweden by the Treaty of Roskilde.

In medieval times, Trelleborg had an important part in herring fishing. At that time, this was conducted along the entire coast line of what is now Sweden, as the herring shoals were of such great numbers that fishermen were said to have been able to stand on the shore and land fish with nets. Trelleborg became an important merchant city as merchants from Germany came to trade herring. In 1619 following a devastating fire, the Danish King decided that one merchant city on the coast was sufficient and revoked Trelleborg's status as a merchant city in favour of Malmö.

Not until 1840 was Trelleborg allowed to become a merchant city, and not until 1867 did it regain its rights as a city of Sweden. Mostly this was thanks to the work of a few stubborn men, who had continuously been petitioning the Swedish Riksdag with these requests since 1658. The local government reform of 1971 made Trelleborg the seat of Trelleborg Municipality, covering both rural and urban areas.

Although Trelleborg do not have an official month to month weather station featured in SMHI's reports, its nearest weather stations in Falsterbo and Malmö both indicate an oceanic climate with warm and sometimes hot summers averaging in the low 20's most of the time and cool but generally not very cold winters with means at or just above freezing.