Kvidinge is a locality situated in Åstorp Municipality

Åstorp Municipality

Åstorp Municipality is a municipality in Skåne County in southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Åstorp.In 1974 "old" Åstorp was amalgamated with Kvidinge to form the present municipality.-Localities:There are 3 urban areas in Åstorp Municipality.In the table they are...

, Skåne County

Skåne County

Skåne County is the southernmost administrative county or län, of Sweden, basically corresponding to the historical province Scania. It borders the counties of Halland, Kronoberg and Blekinge. The seat of residence for the Skåne Governor is the town of Malmö...

, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 with 1,796 inhabitants in 2005.
It is famous as the death site of Charles August, Crown Prince of Sweden

Charles August, Crown Prince of Sweden

Charles August was a German prince. He is best known for serving as Crown Prince of Sweden briefly in 1810, adopted by Charles XIII, before his sudden death from stroke. Earlier, he had been a general in the Royal Danish Army as well as the Danish Governor-general of Norway...

 in 1810. Crown Prince was inspecting the Scanian Hussar Regiment

Skånska husarregementet

Skånska husarregementet, K 5 or Scanian Hussar Regiment, Was a Swedish cavalry unit in the swedish armed forces which served in various forms between 1658 and 1927.- See also :* Swedish Armed Forces* Swedish Army* List of Swedish regiments...

 troops on its training ground Kvidinge Heath at Kvidinge. Crown Prince Charles John (later King Karl XIV Johan) proposed that a memorial to the incident would be raised. City architect Carl Christoffer Gjörwell

Carl Christoffer Gjörwell

Carl Christoffer Gjörwell was a city architect in Stockholm, Sweden. He was the son of Carl Christoffer Gjörwell ....

was commissioned to design the monument, which was completed in 1826 .