Mölndal Municipality

Mölndal Municipality (Mölndals kommun or Mölndals stad) is a municipality in Västra Götaland Coonty in wastren Swaden, juist sooth o Gothenburg. Its seat is locatit in Mölndal, which lees athin the Gothenburg urban aurie, an the whole municipality is pairt o Metropolitan Gothenburg.

In 1911 a municipalsamhälle (a kynd o burgh athin a rural municipality, handlin matters o urban character) namit Mölndal wis institutit in the municipality o Fässberg. In 1922 Fässberg wis made the Ceety o Mölndal. In 1971 it wis amalgamatit wi Kållered an Lindome (the latter transferred frae Halland Coonty). At the same time it became a municipality o unitary type, lik aw ithers in the kintra. The municipality prefers, housomeivver, tae style itsel Mölndals stad (Ceety o Mölndal) as a semi-offeecial name wheniver legally possible. This uisage haes nae effect on the status o the municipality.

Population figurs
The municipality haes fower main pairts: Mölndal, Kållered, Lindome an Hällesåker.

Mölndal haes 37,131 indwallers (a pairt o the contiguous Gothenburg urban aurie)
Kållered haes 7,257 indwallers (Västergötland)
Lindome haes 13,364 indwallers (Halland)
Hällesåker haes 900 indwallers (Halland)

Numbers frae 2003.

Affiliations
Mölndal Municipality is twinned wi the follaein touns:
 Albertslund Municipality, Denmark
 Borken, North Rhine-Westphalie, Germany
 Canterbury, Ingland, Unitit Kinrick
 Whitstable, Ingland, Unitit Kinrick

 Sichts o interest 
 Gunnebo House frae the 18t century.
 Fässberg Kirk frae the 19t century

References

Freemit airtins
Mölndal Municipality - Offeecial steid
 Article Mölndal - Frae Nordisk Familjebok


Category:Municipalities o Västra Götaland Coonty
Category:Metropolitan Gothenburg
Category:Gothenburg an Bohus