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The municipality covers an area of 140.3 km². The total population of 37,728 makes a population density of 269 inhabitants/km². Most of the inhabitants live in the town Landskrona.
The town Landskrona was founded at the location of Scania's best natural harbour, as a means of King Eric of Pomerania's anti- Hanseatic policy, intended to compete with Danish towns under Hanseatic control. A Carmelite monastery was founded in 1410, English merchants were granted the privileges in a royal charter in 1412, and the town itself was chartered in 1413. Landskrona was burned by the Hanseatic League in 1428.
The town supported the deposed king Christian II of DenmarkChristian II ( 1481 1559) was a Danish monarch and King of Denmark, Norway ( 1513 1523) and Sweden ( 1520 1521), under the Kalmar Union. Christian was born the son of King John of Denmark "Kong Hans" and Christina of Saxony, at Nyborg Castle in 1481 and s ( 1525Events January 21 The Swiss Anabaptist Movement was born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptized each other in the home of Manz's mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zurich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-sta), and opposed the Reformation in Denmark ( 1535Events January 18 Lima, Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro June 24 The Anabaptist state of Munster is conquered and disbanded. May 19 French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail for his second voyage to North America with 3 ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacon), and in both cases found itself among the defeated. The Reformist King Christian III of DenmarkChristian III ( August 12, 1503 January 1, 1559), king of Denmark and Norway, was the son of Frederick I of Denmark and his first consort, Anne of Brandenburg. He married Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg in 1525. His earliest teacher, Wolfgang von Utenhof, who abstained however from retaliation, and instead founded a castleThis article describes the fortified buildings. Castle" is also an alternative name for the Rook and the move of castling in chess. The Castle (from the Latin castellum diminutive of castra a military camp, in turn the plural of castrum or watchpost), is to protect the harbour. The castle, built where the monastery had been situated until the Reformation, was completed by 1560Events February 27 The Treaty of Berhick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland The first tulip bulb was brought from Turkey to the Netherlands. July 6 Treaty of Edinburgh between England, France.
After Terra ScaniaTerra Scania or Skaneland once constituted the eastern part of the Danish kingdom. In the Treaty of Roskilde ( 1658) it was permanently ceded to Sweden. It is made up of the Swedish Provinces of Scania, Hallandia and Blechingia. Geographically located in was ceded to Sweden in 1658, the good harbour and the strong fort were reasons for plans to make Landskrona a commercial center of the acquired territory with extraordinary privileges for foreign trade. The castle was reinforced by bastions, the area inside the moats extended to 400x400 meters, the castle was considered the strongest and most modern in Scandinavia, but was temporarily lost to the Danes after a comparably short siege July 8- August 2 1676. The commandant Colonel Hieronymus Lindeberg was consequently sentenced to death for high treason.
Any further plans for Landskrona were however not realized, for various reasons. The continued Swedish-Danish wars favoured Karlskrona, located at a safer distance from Denmark, replacing Landskrona as a naval base, the fortifications were discontinued, and Malmö remained the most important commercial town - despite Malmö lacking a harbour until the late 18th century. The fortifications at Landskrona were expanded considerably between 1747 and 1788, but were condemned in 1822, whereafter the garrison was abolished in 1869. The walls and moats of the fortifications are today a beautiful recreational area, commonly known as the Landskrona Citadel.
See also: List of Swedish wars, Hven