Vetlanda Municipality () is a municipality in Jönköping County, southern Sweden. The town of Vetlanda is the municipality's seat.
The municipality was created in 1971 when the City of Vetlanda (instituted in 1920) was amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipalities to form a unitary municipality. When Sweden's first local government laws went into effect in 1863, there were more than 20 entities located within the current municipality's boundaries.
Vetlanda is the birthplace of Johan Franzén, a professional ice hockey center who played for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League.
Geography Vetlanda Municipality is the largest municipality in Jönköping County. The municipality is situated on the South Swedish highlands, an area situated some 250 meters above sea level and also includes Eksjö Municipality and Nässjö Municipality. It is a sight-worthy nature that is visited by tourists for the scenery alone.
The distance to any of the three largest Swedish cities Malmö (south-west), Gothenburg (west) and Stockholm (north-east) is rather similar; about 300 km.
Localities There are 12 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Vetlanda 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 Vetlanda 12,691 2 Ekenässjön 1,551 3 Landsbro 1,454 4 Holsbybrunn 780 5 Korsberga 731 6 Myresjö 644 7 Kvillsfors 560 8 Sjunnen 417 9 Skede 345 10 Björköby 312 11 Pauliström 257 12 Nye 203
Demographics This is a demographic table based on Vetlanda Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.
In total, there were 27,601 residents, including 20,663 Swedish citizens of voting age. 40.5% voted for the left coalition and 58.1% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
Location % % Alseda-Skede 2,463 1,808 39.6 58.6 81 85 15 24,455 28Björkö-Nävelsjö 2,143 1,538 37.6 61.5 85 86 14 25,689 30Brunnsgård 1,853 1,549 41.6 57.6 83 81 19 26,382 37Bäckseda 2,515 1,907 37.5 61.5 91 88 12 30,132 37Ekenässjön 1,766 1,259 42.6 56.1 81 73 27 24,008 25Karlslund 1,657 1,310 41.7 57.6 86 82 18 26,476 31Korsberga-Ramkvilla 2,076 1,526 38.5 60.4 86 88 12 24,331 34Lannaskede-Fröderyd 1,930 1,389 38.6 60.2 81 79 21 22,885 27Mellangården 2,333 1,815 43.7 55.1 80 74 26 23,787 33Nye-Skirö-Näshult 1,260 944 34.6 63.1 87 89 11 25,641 36Pukaregården 1,735 1,426 41.8 56.4 83 75 25 23,947 28Tomaslunden 2,509 1,822 44.3 54.2 81 77 23 26,958 30Vetlanda Flugeby 2,281 1,581 43.0 55.6 73 58 42 22,343 28Ökna-Karlstorp 1,080 789 37.2 61.7 69 76 24 19,618 21Source: SVT
History The history of Vetlanda goes back to at least the medieval age, when it was the seat for the regional assembly called þing (thing). According to the imagination of Petter Rudebeck (1660–1710), Vetlanda was before that known as Vitala, and the centre of a mythological kingdom. However, all later archeological research has failed in finding any evidence of it. But the myth was popular during the 18th and 19th centuries, which displays in the naming of several companies and locations around the municipality.
Sports Vetlanda boasts successful clubs in bandy (Vetlanda BK) and in motorcycle speedway (Vetlanda Speedway).
References Statistics Sweden
External links
Vetlanda Municipality - Official site Coat of arms