Hjärup Explained

Official Name:Hjärup
Pushpin Map:Sweden Skåne#Sweden
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Sweden
Subdivision Type3:Municipality
Subdivision Name3:Staffanstorp Municipality
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Skåne County
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Skåne
Area Footnotes:[1]
Area Total Km2:1.70
Population As Of:31 December 2010
Population Total:4,265
Population Density Km2:2510
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Coordinates:55.6667°N 23°W

Hjärup (in Swedish pronounced as /ˈjɛ̌ːrɵp/)[2] is, with its more than 4,250 inhabitants, the second largest locality in Staffanstorp Municipality, Scania, Sweden.

Hjärup has a station on the Pågatågen system. The locality has a suburban character with semi-detached houses initially built in the 1960s - 1970s on Lundaslätten, the fertile plain south of Lund, initially on land sold off from the farm Hjerup. Hjärup was until the 1990s confined in between the railway and the main road Malmö - Lund. On the other side of the railway, adjacent to Hjärup's station, a district called Jakriborg is now growing.

Hjärup consists of about 1,600 households (2005) with public services chiefly limited to preschools, schools, health care center[3] and old people's home, as virtually all inhabitants commute to work in the Greater Malmö metropolitan area. 400 of the dwellings are in the housing estate Jakriborg.

The distance to Lund is 5 km by bike, bus or car - or 3 minutes by train.

The distance to Malmö is about 15 km - or 10 minutes by train.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km2 2005 och 2010 . 14 December 2011 . . Swedish . https://web.archive.org/web/20120127055525/http://www.scb.se/Statistik/MI/MI0810/2010A01/Tatorternami0810tab1_4.xls . 27 January 2012 . live . 10 January 2012 .
  2. Book: Svenska ortnamn med uttalsuppgifter. Jöran Sahlgren. Gösta Bergman. sv. 1979. 11.
  3. Web site: Hälsomedicinskt Center i Hjärup, Hjärup, Staffanstorp . . Swedish . 2017-04-23.