Sjöbo (commune)

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Sjöbo Municipality is a municipality in Skåne County in southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the town Sjöbo.The present municipality was created in 1974 when the former market town Sjöbo was amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipalities. There are fifteen original entities within today's municipality.LocalitiesThere are 9 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Sjöbo Municipality.In the table they are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.GeographyThe town of Sjöbo has flat terrain, with many small houses and three long straight streets stretching through it, leading to larger roads.The northwestern part of the municipality includes the main part of Vombsjön, the largest lake of southern Scania and notable for being the water source of Malmö. Some parts of the lake belong to Lund Municipality. It offers fishing for European perch, pike, pikeperch and eel.ActivitiesThere are at least five authentic medieval churches from the 12th century in the municipality . They are notable for not having undergone the severe restorations that many other churches in Scania suffered once the population began growing in the second half of the 19th century and Helgo Zetterwall was hired to expand on them.