Hörby Municipality

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**Hörby Municipality (*Kommun*)**
Sweden with the province Skåne (Scania) highlighted Image:Svcmap skane.png Scania with the municipality and seat of Hörby Image:Horby Municipality in Scania.png Map outlining municipalities of Sweden	Coat of arms Image:Hörby City Arms.jpg
	Municipal facts
	Seat	Hörby:
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	County	Skåne County
	Province	Scania
	Area Rank	423 km² 192nd of 290
	Population Rank (2005)	14,216 154th of 290
	Density	34/km²

This page deals with both Hörby Municipality and the urban area (tätort) Hörby

Hörby is a municipality and town in Scania in southernmost Sweden.

The municipality covers an area of 422.5 km². Of the total population of 13,742, 6,904 are male, and 6,838 are female. The population density of the community is 33 inhabitants per km².

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Geography

The geography is varied with a little forests, some lakes and streams and farming lands and even wildlife. It is also one of the most meadow filled municipalities in Sweden.

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Culture

Hörby still has much of the old cultural heritage remaining in the villages.

Hörby is famous for being one of the transmitting stations specified on old MF radio receivers. The broadcasting signals (radio, TV) are still transmitted from the Teracom transmitting station in Östra Sallerup, 7 km south of Hörby village. MF transmissions do not occur from Hörby any more,but from the new transmitter in Soelvesborg, inaugaurated in 1985, at the coast of the Baltic Sea.

On the first Thursday in July every year since 1748, the Hörby Market (Hörby Marknad) is held. It attracts thousands of visitors and is one of the three main traditional markets in Skåne together with the markets of Kivik and Sjöbo.

The most famous personality from Hörby was the authoress Victoria Benedictsson (1850-1888).

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