Löddeköpinge

Löddeköpinge is the second largest locality in Kävlinge Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden.

Löddeköpinge is situated about 10 km south-west of the municipal seat Kävlinge and about 5 km from Barsebäck nuclear power plant. It has about 5,600 inhabitants.

The current locality is placed in the former parish of Löddeköpinge, which was an "annex" (subordinate) parish to that of Borgeby, located in the härad of Harjager and in the deanery of Torna and Diocese of Lund. In 1911 it covered 1884 hectares and had 1131 inhabitants. ["Löddeköpinge", Nordisk familjebok, 17:240 [http://runeberg.org/nfbq/0138.html] ] As a division of the Church of Sweden, Löddeköpinge parish became the mother parish in relation to Borgeby in 1937 and was transferred to the deanery of Harjager in 1939. Since 1962, it has been merged with Borgeby, Barsebäck, Hofterup and Hög as a single parish in the deanery of Rönneberga. [Archive catalogue of SVAR, Swedish Archive Information, National Archives of Sweden, [http://www.svar.ra.se/] ]

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