Det urbana rummet berättar - Skanör-Falsterbos medeltida urbana landskap och betydelse

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study is to gain an understanding of how Skanör-Falsterbo’s urban medieval landscape can show what importance they held as market towns and what is left of it in the landscape today. This has been done using a phenomenological theory together with social structuralism and spatial theory. I have conducted this study using antiquities, historical maps and written sources, together with earlier studies of the area. I have also visited the localities myself. The conclusion is that the urban medieval landscape can tell us that there has been a great need to show off power in the two towns and that they have been important political standpoints for the monarchy, church, and the Hanseatic league. However, the importance of the two towns cannot be read only by studying the landscape. It must be done in coherence with the activities that have been conducted at the sites. Only then can the importance that the people of the past gave to the towns be seen. The signs that are still left today are the two town churches, the two ruins of the fortresses, the hill that the beacon stood on and holes after fish stalls.