Gammalstorp is a minor community

Community

The term community has two distinct meanings:*a group of interacting people, possibly living in close proximity, and often refers to a group that shares some common values, and is attributed with social cohesion within a shared geographical location, generally in social units larger than a household...

 in Sölvesborg

Sölvesborg

Sölvesborg is a locality and the seat of Sölvesborg Municipality in Blekinge County, Sweden with 7,883 inhabitants in 2005.Sölvesborg is, despite its small population, for historical reasons normally still referred to as a city...

 municipality, Blekinge

Blekinge

' is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden , situated in the south of the country. It borders Småland, Scania and the Baltic Sea.The name "Blekinge" comes from the adjective bleke, which corresponds to the nautical term for "dead calm"....

. Gammalstorp was between 1863 and 1970 a municipality. In contrast to other municipalities of the time (e.g. Mjällby

Mjällby

Mjällby is a locality situated in Sölvesborg Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden with 1,272 inhabitants in 2005. It is located on the Listerlandet peninsula....

), Gammalstorp did not have a particular administrative centre. Instead, the functions were divided between the villages of Norje

Norje

Norje is a locality situated in Sölvesborg Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden with 674 inhabitants in 2005.Since 1998, the rock/metal festival Sweden Rock Festival is being held here....

 and Gammalstorp.

The village has grown up around the church, which was originally located on an island, in the former sound

Sound

Sound is a mechanical wave that is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations.-Propagation of...

/lake

Lake

A lake is a body of relatively still fresh or salt water of considerable size, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land. Lakes are inland and not part of the ocean and therefore are distinct from lagoons, and are larger and deeper than ponds. Lakes can be contrasted with rivers or streams,...

 of Vesan

Vesan

Lake Vesan: the lake system Vesan in Sölvesborg was from the beginning not a lake, but a strait up until the early 1920s. In the area between Ryssberget and Listerlandet, water from Hanöbukten flowed in and in effect cut of Listerlandet from the rest of the mainland. The sound was open to sail...

. Up until the 1950s, the municipality housed a number of distillery