Hjo

History

Hjo is known to have had a charter as early as 1413. Hjo is, despite its small population, for historical reasons normally still referred to as a city. Statistics Sweden, however, only counts localities with more than 10,000 inhabitants as cities. Many wooden towns have suffered fires, but Hjo has been relatively spared, apart from when the church and some adjacent houses burnt down in 1794. The city structure is therefore almost exactly the same as in medieval times. Hjo works together with the cities of Eksjö and Nora to develop wooden towns as tourist attractions, under the joint name "Three wooden towns" (Tre trästäder). In the year 2013, the city celebrated the town's 600th anniversary.

Most-observed species

• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  8,455
• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  7,328
• Common Wood-Pigeon

  Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  6,994
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  6,616
• Eurasian Nuthatch

  Sitta europaea Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  6,269
• Eurasian Magpie

  Pica pica (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  5,991
• European Greenfinch

  Chloris chloris (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  4,957
• Hooded Crow

  Corvus cornix Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  4,829

Most recent

• M 2.8 — 2018-06-23
  2 km SW of Götene, Sweden