Rinkaby
Sign in to saveRinkaby is a locality situated in Kristianstad Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 745 inhabitants in 2010. It is close to Lake Hammarsjön and roughly halfway between Kristianstad and Åhus. The village has a pre-school and primary school housed in a 19th century building. There is a leisure centre, a football club and some shops.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Rinkaby
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Rinkaby kyrka, skåne.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Rinkaby Church
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Sweden Skåne#Sweden
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Sweden
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Kristianstad Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Skåne County
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Skåne
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 1.11
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 31 December 2010
- Settlement.population_total
- 745
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- 674
- Settlement.timezone
- CET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
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Rinkaby is a locality situated in Kristianstad Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 745 inhabitants in 2010. It is close to Lake Hammarsjön and roughly halfway between Kristianstad and Åhus. The village has a pre-school and primary school housed in a 19th century building. There is a leisure centre, a football club and some shops.
The area has Stone Age remains; the name of the village is probably derived from the word rinkʀ (Old West Norse rekkr), meaning 'man' or 'warrior', and by denotes a settlement in Old Swedish. Rinkaby Church was built in the 13th century and contains medieval murals and an astronomical clock. It is an agricultural community; in the 19th century, the area was famous for growing tobacco, but now specialises in the rearing of Angus cattle.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rinkaby” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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