Ljungby is the central locality of Ljungby Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden, with 15,785 inhabitants in 2015.Ljungby was in 1829 instituted as a köping, or market town, and did not become a municipality of its own when the first local government acts took effect in 1863, but retained part of the surrounding rural municipality of the same name. In 1936 Ljungby got the title stad, Swedish for Town or City. Ljungby is since 1971 the seat of Ljungby Municipality. Much of the town centre was destroyed in the 1953 city fire. The at the time modern style of the rebuilding, characterized by among other Hotel Terazza, still remains controversial locally.
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