Ljungby

Ljungby is the critical locality of Ljungby Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden, with 15,785 population in 2015. Ljungby became in 1829 instituted as a köping, or marketplace metropolis, and did not turn out to be a municipality of its personal when the primary neighborhood government acts took effect in 1863, but retained part of the encompassing rural municipality of the equal call. In 1936 Ljungby got the identify stad, Swedish for Town or City. Ljungby is because 1971 the seat of Ljungby Municipality. Much of the town centre turned into destroyed inside the 1953 metropolis fire.

The at the time modern style of the rebuilding, characterized by using among different Hotel Terazza, still stays controversial domestically. The first recognised inhabitant of the location this is state-of-the-art Ljungby was Astrad, as can be study on the runestone Replosastenen from the 11th century placed multiple kilometers from the metropolis centre. The runestone says: "Gotrad made this stone after Astrad, the foremost of kinsmen and yeomen who in Finnveden previously lived". In 1952 a statue by means of John Lundqvist was erected close to the main plaza depicting Astrad and Gotrad.