Sandviken, together with the neighbouring town of Västra Näs, is one of the many minor communities and beaches of

Sölvesborg Sölvesborg is a locality and the seat of Sölvesborg Municipality in Blekinge County, Sweden with 10,024 inhabitants in 2013. Sölvesborg is, despite its small population, for historical reasons normally still referred to as a ''city''. Statis ...

in southeastern

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

. Historically, this part of the

Listerlandet Listerlandet is a peninsula in Sölvesborg Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden. Its main settlement is Mjällby. History Listerlandet was originally in practice an island, surrounded by the Baltic Sea to the south, west and east, and in north ...

was the first place to be inhabited, when the first settlers arrived to this part of

in the Nordic

Bronze Age The Bronze Age () was a historical period characterised principally by the use of bronze tools and the development of complex urban societies, as well as the adoption of writing in some areas. The Bronze Age is the middle principal period of ...

, i.e., approximately 500. Finds from inhabitants here are at display at the museum of

. From here, the early settlers spread to other parts of the area, and Sandviken became a part of the surrounding farming settlements.I Sölvesborg på 1800-talet, Rut Liedgren In the early 20th century, Västra Näs was mainly reached via a ferry service from Tredenborg, just outside the central city of

. The ferry traffic was partially industrial and partially for the benefit of people looking to go swimming on the beaches. Today, Sandviken and Västra Näs form a largely summer residential area with only a few permanent inhabitants.

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Populated places in Sölvesborg Municipality {{Blekinge-geo-stub