Helsingborgs framväxt - Den tidiga urbana utvecklingen av staden och dess område

Sammanfattning: This paper is about the city of Helsingborg, which lies in the north-western part of Skåne, and has roots from the early middle ages. The paper discusses how and why the city grew. In the Helsingborg area there were during the Iron Age and Viking age already places that could have been the central places. The question is why the town grew up just where it did at the coast and not at the central places that already existed. Asking these questions, the material used and the method has been to explore the city and its development. The area around the city area being examined and Helsingör and the Öresund region. The material consists of various onward reports and books on previous surveys of the area. There are historical sources that prove that the king owned the land that the town has grown up on and then got blank tax. The king has been interested in the ground along the coast could be due to the fact that there has been a sort of cliff who has given a free view over the Strait. Location of the town is at the narrowest part of the sea between Själland and Skåne. This narrow part has shared the then Danish kingdom into two parts and it would have been good for the King to have control and supervision of the Strait. There have been people who have lived in the area during the stone, bronze and iron age, so the surroundings can be interpreted to have been a good thing to live with. Exactly why the central places in the area didn’t grow is a difficult issue that might not be possible to. But on thing is sure, and that is that its location has been a great factor for the growth of Helsingborg.