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26-671: Sävedalen is a district ("kommundel") located in Partille Municipality . At west it borders to Gothenburg Municipality and is a suburb of Gothenburg . The ice-cream company Triumf Glass was founded and have their headquarters in Sävedalen. Earlier the village Ugglum was located here. But when the railway station was opened in 1917, it changed name to Sävedalen for avoiding confusion with Ucklum . The comedian and tv-personality Petra Mede grew up in Sävedalen. Districts of Sweden On 1 January 2016

52-574: 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

78-401: 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,

104-512: A new form of division of Sweden was introduced. This division is called Districts or Registration districts , in Swedish Distrikt . These are used for certain administrative purposes by some national authorities, such as land ownership and statistics. This is not the same as the urban districts which are divisions held by some municipalities. Metropolitan Stockholm consists of 26 municipalities (boroughs), each municipality

130-513: Is a Swedish municipality in Skåne County , the southernmost of the counties of Sweden (and conterminous with the historical province ( landskap ) of Scania ). The central city is Malmö . The municipality is part of Metropolitan Malmö and constitutes its own constituency in parliamentary elections in Sweden. When the first Swedish local government acts were implemented in 1863,

156-512: Is divided into smaller subdivisions/districts. Stockholm Municipality uses the English term "district" ( Swedish: stadsdelområde ) to describe these subdivisions. The districts were first created in 1997 to facilitate the efficiency of local government in Stockholm. The number of districts was reduced from 24 to 18 the following year, and reduced again to the current 14 in 2007. Since

182-670: Is divided into ten districts ( kommundelar ), each with a district council ( kommundelsnnämd ) responsible for pre-school and primary school, recreational services, and services for the elderly. Torshälla is a region inside Eskilstuna Municipality which has withheld a degree of autonomy since merging with Eskilstuna, including their own city council (Torshälla stads nämnd). Other municipalities that use districts for advisory or administrative purposes include Huddinge , Kalmar , Köping , Södertälje , Umeå and Västerås . Malm%C3%B6 Municipality Malmö Municipality ( Swedish : Malmö kommun ), or City of Malmö ( Malmö stad ),

208-514: 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 the white overburden of the waste mountain Lernacken and

234-475: 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 the 2018-2022 term, they govern in coalition with

260-476: 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 a city municipality in 1863. Limhamn's municipal community

286-477: 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, the municipality was one of Sweden's most important industrial municipalities, but this era

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312-471: 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

338-423: The central city council. The councilors that serve on these district councils are often part-time politicians, also holding other employment. They are preferably residents of the district whose council they serve upon. The central city council itself is responsible for setting the budget, goals, and responsibilities of the district councils. The city council also appoints the members of each district council, so

364-418: The city council is stadsdelsnämndsområden (literally "city-part committee area"). These districts were created in 1990. Just like in Stockholm, these districts each have a local governing body which Gothenburg calls "district committees." These committees serve a nearly identical function to Stockholm's district councils, including recreation, local economic issues and social services, and the lower levels of

390-481: The city's governance. Metropolitan Stockholm has 26 municipalities (boroughs): Stockholm municipality has 14 districts as of the administrative changes made in 2007: Gothenburg Municipality ( Göteborgs stad ) is also divided into subdivisions which it refers to as "districts" in English, though as with Stockholm's districts, they are often referred to as boroughs in unofficial contexts. The Swedish term used by

416-457: The community in contacting their politicians or navigating their way through government agencies. These are the five districts of Malmö: Other smaller municipalities in Sweden also use municipal subdivisions for official purposes, however these are not always administrative. For example, Strängnäs Municipality uses district councils ( kommundelsråd ) which serve a purely advisory function and have no administrative power. Borås Municipality

442-434: The education system, and like Stockholm's councils, these committees are appointed by the centralized city council. Gothenburg is divided into 21 districts, each with a district committee. These 21 districts can be further divided into 94 subdivisions (called primärområden / primary areas ) which exist only for statistical and organizational purposes, and serve no administrative function. The 21 districts of Gothenburg and

468-543: The establishment of these districts, certain administrative tasks, such as school administration were re-centralized. Each district has its own district administration, led by a district council, which is responsible for certain areas of municipal governance within their district, including pre-school education, park maintenance, local economic initiatives, elderly services, financial counseling, and refugee reception services. Individual district councils have no power over city planning or tax policy, both of which are retained by

494-587: 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,

520-486: 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

546-401: The political makeup of the district council resembles that of the central city council, not necessarily that of the district. The member of the district council are not elected in any fashion by the residents of the district in question. Stockholm's 14 districts are sometimes divided into smaller parts for statistical purposes, however these smaller districts have no administrative function in

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572-404: The primärområden enclosed within each: Malmö Municipality ( Malmö stad ) is divided into five districts ( Swedish : stadsområden ). These districts each have a board or council called a stadsdelsfullmäktige , each consisting of eleven members, which are responsible for various local administrative tasks. In Malmö, the district councils are also responsible for assisting members of

598-492: 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 the Öresund Bridge . The municipal area is one of Sweden's most urbanized landscapes. There

624-485: 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 the north, Svedala municipality to the east and Vellinge municipality to

650-422: 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

676-502: 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 the City of Malmö. Fosie municipal community was established on May 30, 1919 and

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