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  The diocese of Lund
The diocese of Lund is one of Sweden’s thirteen dioceses and geographically comprises the regions of Skåne and Blekinge.
Lund became a bishopric as early as 1060 in what was then Denmark, and in 1103 became an archdiocese over all the territory of the Nordic Countries at the time.
Lund Cathedral is a diocesan cathedral and the largest Romanesque church in the Nordic Countries.
www.svenskakyrkan.se /lundsstift/diocese_of_lund.htm   (264 words)

  
  Lund - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On December 4 in 1676 it was defended at the Battle of Lund, one of the bloodiest battles fought in Scandinavia.
Lund University, established in 1668 as a means of Swedification, is Sweden's largest with 41,000 students, though not all students actually live in Lund.
Lund is a municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lund   (594 words)

  
 lund   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Lund is a city and a municipality (population 100,995 as of January 2004) in Skåne County, in southern Sweden.
On December 4 in 1676 it was defended at the Battle of Lund, one of the bloodiest battles fought in Sweden.
Lund University, established in 1666, is one of Sweden's largest, although the city is relatively small.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /Lund.html   (313 words)

  
 Lund Cathedral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lund became a see in 1103, and there was a celebration of the ninth centennial in 2003.
The cathedral was created in the 12th century, after Lund had become the seat of the Nordic archbishop.
However, much indicates that this cathedral is not Lund Cathedral, and that the latter began to be build during the early 1100s when Lund became the seat of the archbishop.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lund_Cathedral   (305 words)

  
 Lund
The name Lund (a small wood or grove) is derived from a heathen sacrificial grove which lay to the east of the city, and where the deities of the North, Odin, Thor, Frigga, were honoured.
Lund is first mentioned in the Icelandic saga, which tells us that the city, surrounded by a wooden rampart, was plundered and burnt in 940 by the Vikings.
Canute VI celebrated at Lund in 1177 his marriage with Henry the Lion's daughter, Gertrude of Saxony; Waldemar the Victorious was crowned there in 1202 and it was there in 1409 that took place the marriage between Eric of Pomerania and Philippa of England.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/l/lund.html   (2650 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Lund
Lund (a small wood or grove) is derived from a heathen sacrificial grove which lay to the east of the city, and where the deities of the North, Odin, Thor, Frigga, were honoured.
buried in the crypt of the cathedral at
Lund, thereby depriving the dignity of Primate of
www.newadvent.org /cathen/09433a.htm   (2308 words)

  
 Lund University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lund University (Swedish: Lunds universitet) is a university in Lund in southernmost Sweden.
Lund University has 7 faculties, with additional campuses in the cities of Malmö and Helsingborg, with a total of over 34,000 people studying in 50 different programmes and 800 separate courses.
A cathedral school (the katedralsskolan) for the training of clergy was established in 1085 and is today one of Scandinavias oldest schools.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lund_University   (1055 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Lund   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Lunds kommun is a municipality in Skåne County in southernmost Sweden.
Lund University Lund University (Swedish: Lunds universitet) is a university in Lund in southernmost Sweden.
The Lund Institute of Technology or Lunds Tekniska Högskola (LTH) is a university school, at Lund University, in Lund, Sweden.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lund   (1964 words)

  
 Lund Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Lund [lʊnː] is a Scania city in the Skåne province in southernmost Sweden.
Lund is home to the Tetra Pak company that markets paper packaging machinery for milk and orange juice all over the world.
Lund is one of the 134 historical Cities in Sweden with a Royal Charter.
www.greatartworks.com /encyclopedia/Lund   (736 words)

  
 Lund Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Lund is located in the Sound Area of Denmark and Sweden in Europe.
Lund is one of the oldest cities in Scandinavia.
At the heart of Lund is the Cathedral, built in the Romanesque style in the 12th century.
www.lund.irf.se /HeliosHome/lund.html   (241 words)

  
 Hotel Concordia | Visit & enjoy the university- & cultural city of Lund in Sweden
Lund´s cathedral is the largest and the most beautiful example of the roman architecture in the Nordic countries.
Lund was fiercely attacked in year 1452 by the army of Karl Knutsson and a large part of the city was set on fire.
Lund had lost power, importance and welfare trough the war and the Reformation, and was in the beginning of the 18th century struck by further difficulties.
www.concordia.se /infolund_en.asp   (4645 words)

  
 ICAP 2006
Lund, a charming University town, is situated in the centre of the attractive and spacious Öresund region in southern Sweden, close to the Copenhagen and Malmö international airports.
Lund University (www.lu.se) was founded in 1666, but Lund already before had a rich tradition of teaching and knowledge.
Lund University is currently the largest in Scandinavia and students from all over the world attend, adding a youthful pulse to the city life, culture and entertainment.
www.jubilekinase.com /argpyr   (276 words)

  
 Lund Travel Guide
Lund, in the southern part of Sweden, is home to the country's second oldest university, and also has many high-tech companies.
Lund is fifteen minutes by train from Malmö and forty-five from Copenhagen.
Lund Cathedral (Domkyrkan) was built in 1103 and is the second-largest cathedral of the Nordic countries.
www.imakoopedia.org /en/article/Lund   (518 words)

  
 Lund   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
On December 4 in 1676 it was defended at the Battle of Lund, one of thebloodiest battles fought in Sweden.
Another famous educational institution in Lund is the Cathedral School (Katedralskolan), founded in 1085 by the Danish kingKanute the Holy.
Lund is also home to the Tetra Pak company that markets paper packagingmachinery for milk and orange juice all over the world.
www.therfcc.org /lund-49277.html   (258 words)

  
 Lund Bug Shields
Lund [lɵnd] is a municipality and city in Scania in southernmost Sweden.
On December 4 in 1676 it was defended at the Battle of Lund, one of the bloodiest battles fought in Scandinavia.
Lund University, established in 1666, is one of Sweden's largest, although the city is relatively small.
www.altvetmed.com /face/20365-lund-bug-shields.html   (1089 words)

  
 Øresundstid - tidlig middelalder
In addition the Lund cathedral was to receive taw money from the city of Lund, but also from the towns Lomma and Helsingborg.
(Lund was archbishopric for the North until 1152, when Norway had its own organisation while Sweden was released from Lund´s archbishopric in 1164 and after that Lund´s Cathedral was solely a Danish cathedral).
The archbishop Eskil in Lund was a personal friend of his and that could be the reason that Cistercian monasteries were founded very early on both sides of the Sound, in Herrevar in Scania in 1145 and in Esrum in Zealand in 1151.
www.oresundstid.dk /dansk/engelsk/oresundstid/arkiv/tekst/tidlig_middelalder.htm   (5218 words)

  
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Lund used to be the capital of Denmark a thousand years ago....It is a rather old and very picturesque city with a mediaeval touch.
He became anyway the protector saint of Lund after this deed with the church: which was built by Finn as a result of good guess work from Laurentius, in a competion of guessing names.
The cathedral was of course built as a catholic church but then it became the subject of reformation (16th century).
hem.passagen.se /pannonia   (869 words)

  
 Lund travel guide - Wikitravel
Lund [1], in the southern part of Sweden, is home to the country's second oldest, yet largest, university, and also has many high-tech companies.
Lund is certainly small enough to see most of it in an afternoon's walk.
Lund Cathedral (Domkyrkan) was built in 1103 and is the second-largest cathedral of the Nordic countries.
wikitravel.org /en/Lund   (1027 words)

  
 AllTravel Lund Sweden travel and tourism
Founded by the Danes around 1000, Lund is the second oldest town in Sweden.
Construction of its spectacular cathedral began in the 12th century and soon after Lund became the seat of the largest archbishopric in Europe.
Lund is also reputed to have some of the most varied nightlife in the region.
www.alltravelsweden.com /Sweden/Destination_Guides/Cities/Lund.htm   (395 words)

  
 Lunds domkyrka - Wikimedia Commons
Lunds domkyrka or Lund Cathedral is the cathedral of Lund in Skåne in southern Sweden.
Being constructed in the early 12th century, it is Sweden's oldest cathedral with present borders.
Lund became the archdiocese (äkrestift) in 1102, which was propably when the construction of the cathedral was initiated.
commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Lunds_domkyrka   (94 words)

  
 Kathedrale von Lund - netlexikon
Schonen wurde erst kurzfristig in zwei Bistümer geteilt; in Lund war ein Missionsbischof eingesetzt, der vom Erzbischof von Canterbury geweiht war.
Bei der Reformation gab es in der Stadt Lund 27 Kirchen, davon 8 verschiedenen Klöstern zugehörig, was auch im Vergleich zu reichen Bischofsstädten in Deutschland und Frankreich auffallend viel war.
Der Dom zu Lund ist wie auch die ehemalige Bischofskirche in Dalby über eine Quelle gebaut, die deutlich auf vorchristliche Kultplätze hinweist und von fruchtbarer Erde auf einem für die Landwirtschaft sehr geeigneten Flachland umgeben.
www.lexikon-definition.de /Kathedrale-von-Lund.html   (717 words)

  
 action   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Lund was founded as a city over 1000 years ago.
Construction of the Cathedral began around 1100 A.D. The city was the leading center in the eastern province of Denmark called Scania.
Today Lund university is the largest university in Scandinavia with more than 35 000 students.
www.teol.lu.se /rhetorical/menus/lund.html   (107 words)

  
 Tourist Information - Lunds kommun
Lund is a city where a thousand years of history blends with modern knowledge and visions.
Students from all over the world attend Lund's tradition-rich Lund University, adding a youthful pulse to Lund's cultural and entertainment scene.
Suggestions for excursions to the eastern parts of Lund can be found under the heading "Beautiful Nature".
www.lund.se /templates/Page____1829.aspx   (143 words)

  
 About Lund and the University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Lund is one of the oldest towns in Sweden.
Lund became Swedish in 1658 after the peace agreement in Roskilde, and the Lund University was founded some years later in 1666.
The largest is the Lund Institute of Technology with its 5,500 undergraduates and and 500 graduate students.
www.forbrf.lth.se /lsf/alu.htm   (188 words)

  
 Lund Truck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The city was made see of the first archbishop in Scandinavia in 1103, the und Cathedral dates from this time (inaugurated 1 Sept 1145).
As of 2004, the city has around 74,000inhabitants (not counting those living in the villages that belong to the municipality) and the university has 41,000 students,though not all students actually live in Luhd.
Another famous educational institution in Luhd is the Cathedral School (Katedralskolan), founded in 1085 by the Danish king Canute the Saint.
www.musicians-resource.com /site/40583-lund-truck.html   (602 words)

  
 Lund travel guide - Lund, Sweden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Just forty minutes south of Helsingborg and fifteen minutes from MalmA¶, LUND is the most obvious target for a trip, a beautiful university town with a picturesque medieval centre and a unique buzz thanks to the student population.
Outside the cathedral, Kyrkogatan, lined with staunch, solid, nineteenth-century civic buildings, leads into the main square, Stortorget, off which Kattesund is home to a glassed-in set of excavated medieval walls.
Lund's most popular meeting place is the Stortorget on Stortorget with a bar, restaurant and club.
www.nbportal.com /sweden/lund/pod_dep-83573.html   (654 words)

  
 GlobalFreeloaders.com / Lund / Sweden / Stay for Free   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
All these GlobalFreeloaders members are in Lund and may be available to host you while you're in the area.
There is a large open space, a large kitchen, a small bedroom containing a bed sofa, and a large bathroom with a shower.
Lund is the greatest student place in the country and close to Malmö and Copenhagen.
www.globalfreeloaders.com /memberlocations.php?city=lund&code=SW-27-2306135   (385 words)

  
 Lidar maps Swedish cathedral (November 2001) - News - optics.org
A cathedral in Lund is the first historical building to be imaged with fluorescence lidar.
The main constituent of the older parts of the cathedral is quartzitic sandstone, which is quarried nearby.
In the 19th century, a harder, denser sandstone was used to renovate the cathedral, and granite was used to reconstruct some parts.
optics.org /articles/news/7/11/27/1   (388 words)

  
 Lund   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
BioInvent and Lund University present data on significant plaque...
Lund, Sweden: The results from animal tests on BioInvent International AB’s (SAX:BINV) drug candidate, BI-204, for the treatment of atherosclerosis were...
Candace Lund, president of the technical union AFSCME Local 3937, said the unions appreciate the student support.
www.wikiverse.org /lund   (395 words)

  
 Kulturen in Lund - a museum for all times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Embedded in a medieval quarter just behind the cathedral in Lund lies Kulturen, the world´s second-oldest open-air museum, with about forty houses and a couple of million artefacts from all over the world.
Kulturen in Lund is a meeting-place for different historical ages and cultures.
At Östarp, less than 30 kilometres from Lund, there is a Scanian farm from 1811 in its well-preserved cultural landscape.
www.kulturen.com /eng   (156 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of Organ Stops   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
A very remarkable name given to a labial stop, of 8 ft. pitch, the pipes of which are of metal and conical in form, resembling the Spitzflöte.
The apparently unique example of the stop exists in the Organ in the Cathedral of Lund, Sweden.
Vox Vinolata, 8' of metal, pointedly upward, of narrow scale and weak intonation, is a flute stop in the third (upper) manual of the cathedral organ at Lund.
www.organstops.org /v/VoxVinolata.html   (194 words)

  
 Travel information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
There is a bus service from the airport to central Lund, usually in connection with planes from Stockholm.
Here is a printable Lund map (http://www.teokem.lu.se/~ulf/lund4.jpg), with the chemical centre and the railway station marked.
Take the way by the cathedral and the university building and you will see some of the best parts of Lund.
www.teokem.lu.se /~ulf/travel.html   (449 words)

  
 Gallery Page: Lund Cathedral, Lund Sweden
As you walk through "old town" Lund, coming up from Market Square, this is the first glimpse you get of this almost perfectly preserved Romanesque Cathedral.
This is the trancept at Lund Cathedral, taken from the University Park in Lund.
Most are history or cultural majors from the University of Lund.
www.premontre.org /subpages/loci/imagines/imlund/gallund.htm   (259 words)

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