13 Facts About Landskrona

Ferries operate from Landskrona to the island of Ven, and for many years there was a connection to Copenhagen.

Landskrona is the name of a district in Landskrona Municipality which is slightly smaller than the urban area.

City of Landskrona is usually claimed to have been founded in 1413 by the King of Denmark, Eric of Pomerania, as a trading city intended to compete with Danish towns under the control of the Hanseatic League.

Construction of Landskrona Citadel started in the 1540s under the orders of Christian III.

Today the walls and moats of the fortifications of Landskrona Citadel are a recreational area and the castle holds a museum.

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On 14 May 1919 the Swedish engineer and flight pioneer Enoch Thulin, who lived and worked in Landskrona, died when he crashed his own airplane at the Sodra Faladen fields.

Many years, Landskrona was serviced by car ferries and other ships to and from Copenhagen.

Landskrona is well-known for having several allotment areas in and around the city centre.

Landskrona was relatively larger a century ago compared with today.

Landskrona has traditionally been seen as a working-class city, with a strong focus on heavy industry.

Landskrona Konsthall opened in 1963 in the park attached to Landskrona Citadell.

Landskrona was a professor of painting at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm from 1965 until 1969.

For Landskrona this meant that there was a call for a new location for the station, in order to avoid both the terminal type station, and provide better routing for northbound traffic.