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23-455: When the first Swedish local government acts were implemented in 1863, the Old City of Malmö was made one of the country's 88 city municipalities and the first city council was elected. The municipal territory has been augmented through mergers in 1911, 1915, 1931, 1935, 1952, 1967 and finally in 1971. The landscape of the municipality is one of Sweden's most urbanized . For a long time,

46-533: A city municipality in 1863. Limhamn's municipal community was established on June 7, 1901 and was dissolved in 1906 when Limhamn's borough was formed from Hyllie county municipality and part of Fosie county municipality. The borough became part of the City of Malmö in 1915. Sofielund municipal community was established on February 21, 1896 in Västra Skrävlinge county municipality which in 1911 became part of

69-573: A four-year term. The assembly appoints the municipality's main governing bodies, the 11-member executive committee ( kommunstyrelsen ) and the 8 governing commissioners . The executive committee and the commissioners are headed by a municipal commissioner ( kommunstyrelsens ordförande ) or "mayor". The mayor is Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh of the Social Democratic Party . There are seven political parties represented in

92-401: A guide. The Fotevik area was created in 2011 and is also classified as a Natura 2000 site. The area is the most important Swedish site for the very rare subspecies of Dunlin , Calidris alpina schinzii . In addition, the rare amphibians European green toad and Natterjack toad are found. The rare moth Morris's wainscot ( Chortodes morrisii ) can be found in areas with reeds. From 2016,

115-611: Is a Swedish term that historically was used for urban centers of various sizes. Since 1971, stad has no administrative or legal significance in Sweden. The status of towns in Sweden was formerly granted by a royal charter , comparable to the United Kingdom 's status of borough or burgh before the 1970s or city status today. Unless given such town privileges , a municipality could not call itself stad . To receive

138-492: The Öresund Bridge . The municipal area is one of Sweden's most urbanized landscapes. There is not much left of the original wet meadows south of the town. These have been shaped by being used as grazing land for centuries. The coast has changed significantly since the beginning of the 20th century with the filling of the limestone quarry in Klagshamn . Today it is a peninsula with rich flora and fauna . The beach between

161-587: The 18th century was Östersund (1786). In 1863 the first local government acts were implemented in Sweden. Of the around 2,500 municipalities that were created, 88 were chartered towns. The main difference between these and other municipalities was that a stad had its own jurisdiction , i.e. independent town courts. There were also laws on urban planning and building ( Byggnadstadgan 1874 ), fire prevention ( Brandstadgan 1874 ), public order ( Ordningsstadgan 1868 ) and public health ( Hälsovårdsstadgan 1874 ) which were compulsory applicable to towns. Prior to 1900,

184-464: The 2018-2022 term, they govern in coalition with the Liberals . The municipal area corresponds to the parishes of Bunkeflo, Fosie, Glostorp, Husie, Hyllie, Lockarp, Oxie, Södra Sallerurp, Tygelsjö, Västra Klagstorp and Västra Skrävlinge. In these parishes, rural municipalities with corresponding names were formed during the 1862 municipal reform . The area also included the city of Malmö, which formed

207-438: The City of Malmö. Fosie municipal community was established on May 30, 1919 and was dissolved in 1931 when Fosie county municipality became part of the City of Malmö. In 1935 Husie county municipality was incorporated into the City of Malmö. The municipality is located in the southwestern part of the province of Skåne with the Öresund in the west. Malmö municipality borders Burlöv municipality and Staffanstorp municipality to

230-471: The Social Democrats since the introduction of universal suffrage in 1919, with the exception of two terms in 1985-1988 (the 1985 municipal elections broke a 66-year Social Democratic hold on power) and 1991-1994 when bourgeois coalitions ruled. The municipal legislative body of the municipality is the 61-member municipal assembly ( kommunfullmäktige ), elected by proportional representation for

253-584: The council elected in 2022: Social Democratic Party (20 seats), Moderate Party (13), Sweden Democrats (10), Left Party (9), Liberals (3), Green Party (4) and Centre Party (2). As of 2023, Malmö has town twinning treaties or treaties of co-operation signed with 10 cities. Of these, cooperation is closest with Newcastle and Tallinn. The complete list of cities is the following (twinning year in parentheses): Cities in Sweden Stad (Swedish: ' town; city ' ; plural städer )

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276-422: The difference between rural and urban areas. Police forces and district courts , as well as taxation, were centralized under state agencies, making the administration uniform all over Sweden. The amalgamations of municipalities reduced the number of local government units from a maximum of 2,532 in 1930 to less than 300 today. Consequently, by 1970 most municipalities contained both rural and urban areas. Since

299-483: The municipality is divided into 19 districts: As of 2015, there were six urban areas ( tätort or locality) and six smaller settlements ( småorter ) in the municipality. The localities are listed in the table according to the size of the population in 2018. Note that a small part of Malmö ( Arlöv ) is situated in Burlöv Municipality . The municipality of Malmö has traditionally been governed by

322-516: The municipality was one of Sweden's most important industrial municipalities, but this era is over. Major sectors are instead trade and business services, but above all the public sector . After the formation of the municipality in 1971, the population was declining, but the trend reversed in the early 2000s and has continued to rise since then. The municipality is a stronghold of the Social Democrats , who have been in power since 1994. For

345-474: The north, Svedala municipality to the east and Vellinge municipality to the south. The municipality has a sea border in the north with Kävlinge municipality and Lomma municipality . On the other side of Öresund, Malmö Municipality borders Dragør Municipality , Tårnby Municipality and Copenhagen Municipality in the Capital Region of Denmark on the island of Zealand , to which it is connected by

368-461: The privileges, there were several requirements a municipality needed to fulfill, like being of a certain size, and to have certain facilities. The criteria varied over time as they were at the discretion of the Riksdag or the monarch , but they could include a permanent town council hall and a prison. In the majority of cases, before a town received its charter, it would have previously been given

391-419: The seat of Gotland Municipality , but is no political entity of its own. Some former towns have also grown together, forming one urban area. A few municipalities which used to be towns still style themselves as stad , e.g. Stockholm , Gothenburg and Malmö . There are also municipalities with considerable rural areas that market themselves with the term. Statistics Sweden defines the term stad as

414-545: The seat of their respective municipalities though the term is no longer an administrative term. In some municipalities there can be more than one former town, e.g. Eskilstuna and Torshälla in Eskilstuna Municipality , Kungälv and Marstrand in Kungälv Municipality , or Jönköping , Huskvarna and Gränna , which all three now are part of Jönköping Municipality . The town of Visby is

437-526: The status of köping or "merchant town". Exceptions to this would be when a town was founded under Royal supervision, in which case it would often bear the name of the monarch, such as Kristianstad or Karlskrona (named after kings Christian IV of Denmark and Karl XI of Sweden ). In the Late Middle Ages , c.  1450 , Sweden (excluding Finland ) had 41 chartered towns. By 1680 there were 83. The only town founded and chartered during

460-428: The two minor towns of Borgholm and Haparanda lost their courts, but retained the title of stad . Of the new towns chartered between 1901 and 1951 (44, making the total number of towns 133), not a single one was given its own jurisdiction, but remained under what was called landsrätt ("rural jurisdiction"). In the middle of the 20th century many administrative reforms were carried out that continued to diminish

483-454: The urban and rural municipalities also with time got the same duties towards citizens, it became unnecessary to differentiate between towns and other municipalities, as all had the same powers. Since 1 January 1971, all municipalities are designated as kommun , regardless of their former status. Most of the urban areas of Sweden which once were chartered towns are today still usually referred to as stad . The majority of them are also house

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506-703: The white overburden of the waste mountain Lernacken and the landfill Spillepengen in the north is entirely urban, with the exception of smaller areas used for recreation , swimming and boating , and hiking areas . At Oxie there is a more undulating landscape where sorted sediments form hills which are partly covered with cultivated clay and fertile moraine . In 2022 there were three nature reserves in Malmö municipality - Bunkeflo strandängar, Foteviksområdet and Limhamns kalkbrott (Limhamn limestone quarry). The municipality's first nature reserve, Bunkeflo Strandängar,

529-422: Was established in 2006 and is a reserve managed by the municipality. This includes 300 different plants including some unique and rare species such as Iris spuria (blue flag), Odontites litoralis and Artemisia maritima (sea wormwood). The next reserve, Limhamns kalkbrott, was established in 2010 and is also managed by Malmö municipality. Access to the area, which is home to 2000 different species, requires

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