Arlöv is the seat of Burlöv Municipality

Burlöv Municipality

Burlöv Municipality is a municipality in Skåne County in southern Sweden, just north of Malmö. Its seat is located in a part of Malmö urban area called Arlöv....

, Skåne County

Skåne County

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, Sweden

Sweden

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. It is statistically not defined as a locality of its own, but forms part of the contiguous Malmö urban area

Malmö urban area

The Malmö Urban Area is the third largest of the 1,940 localities or urban areas of Sweden. As such it has no political or administrative significance, but is a geographical and statistical entity. It is not the same as Metropolitan Malmö , which is a much larger area.It is a bimunicipal locality...

, 5 km northeast of downtown Malmö

Malmö

Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...

. Out of Malmö's 280,000 inhbitants, 11000 live in Arlöv. However, in the 1950s, a public vote took place, deciding once and for all that Burlöv municipality would never be a part of Malmö.

Overview

Arlöv is known for its sugar

Sugar

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-industry, Sockerbolaget AB (owned by the Danish

Denmark

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 company

Company

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 Danisco

Danisco

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). The town is the home of the Swedish Works, Aktiebolaget Svenska Järnvägsverkstäderna , that in the 1970s also built several automobile

Automobile

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s for SAAB

Saab Automobile

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, notably the Saab Sonett

Saab Sonett

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 II and III.

Arlöv is mentioned in the song "Hanna från Arlöv" ("Hanna from Arlöv") by the 1970s Swedish band Nationalteatern

Nationalteatern

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. Arlöv is also the birthplace of Swedish rock artist Kal P Dal.

The former office building of Danisco Sugar was bought in 2008 by the Church of Scientology

Church of Scientology

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who opened their new church, a so called "Ideal org" there in 2009.