Kristianstad

Kristianstad is a city and the seat of Kristianstad Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with forty,a hundred forty five population in 2016. During the final 15 years, it has long gone from a garrison town to a developed commercial town, today attracting visitors in the summertime especially from Germany, Denmark and The Netherlands.

The city become based in 1614 through King Christian IV of Denmark, the city's call literally means 'Town of Christian', as a deliberate metropolis after the burning of the close by city of Vä and shifting the city rights of the neighbouring town of Sölvesborg and Åhus to the new metropolis. The cause of the metropolis became to protect the eastern half of the Danish province of Scania in opposition to any future raids from Sweden in the north, but additionally as a image of the strength of Christian himself. One of those raids had sacked the close by metropolis of Vä in 1612. Va then misplaced its charter and the human beings were moved to the new, better fortified town. The king additionally based the city of Christianopel in japanese Blekinge to serve a similar purpose.