Lessebo Municipality

Lessebo Municipality (Template:Langx) is a municipality in eastern Kronoberg County in southern Sweden, where the town Lessebo is seat.

The nationwide local government reform of 1971 saw the creation of the present municipality, when three surrounding municipalities were amalgamated with the market town (köping) of Lessebo (itself instituted in 1939)

In its history, Lessebo Municipality still honours the Swedish emigration in the late 19th century, whereby many poor farmers from Sweden – many of them from Småland – emigrated to the U.S.. When Vilhelm Moberg wrote his acclaimed novels about this time, he located his main characters' home to the parish of Ljuder in eastern Lessebo Municipality. An honorary Walk of the Emigrants also stretches through the municipality and continues to Karlshamn in the south.

Localities

There are 4 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Lessebo Municipality.

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

#	Locality	Population
1	Hovmantorp	3,001
2	Lessebo	2,623
3	Kosta	941
4	Skruv	516

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Lessebo Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.<ref name=LesseboVal2022>Template:Cite web</ref>

In total there were 8,559 inhabitants, including 5,962 Swedish citizens of voting age.<ref name=LesseboVal2022/> 50.2% voted for the left coalition and 48.6% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip style="background:Template:Party color;color:#FFFFFF;" | style="background:Template:Party color;color:#FFFFFF;" | % % Ekeberga 1,071 759 58.8 39.5 74 66 34 20,528 26 Hovmantorp V 1,617 1,188 48.8 50.4 83 83 17 26,817 41 Hovmantorp Ö 1,845 1,337 50.1 48.8 78 75 25 23,749 33 Lessebo N 1,624 1,072 56.9 42.3 66 53 47 20,118 23 Lessebo S 1,492 950 41.1 57.3 70 57 43 21,180 26 Ljuder 910 656 41.6 57.3 76 80 20 22,318 26 Source: SVT<ref name=LesseboVal2022/>

Economy

Lessebo Municipality is best known for the manufacture of glassware. It is located in Sweden's so-called Glasriket (Realm of Glass), which also includes the municipalities of Uppvidinge, Emmaboda and Nybro.

The main glassblower company in Lessebo Municipality is Kosta Boda, established in 1742 as "Kosta". They offer instruction for students wanting to learn the field.

Besides the glass industry, Lessebo Municipality also has a manufacturer of handmade paper which was established in 1693, today an exclusive product mainly used for finer documents.

References

• Statistics Sweden

External links

• Lessebo Municipality - Official site
• Glasriket - Official site, in Swedish, English and German
• Walk of the Emigrants
• Coat of arms