Garde, Gotland

Garde
Garda

Garde Church
Garde
Coordinates: 57°19′1″N 18°34′55″E / 57.31694°N 18.58194°E / 57.31694; 18.58194Coordinates: 57°19′1″N 18°34′55″E / 57.31694°N 18.58194°E / 57.31694; 18.58194
Country Sweden
Province Gotland
County Gotland County
Municipality Gotland Municipality
Area[1]
 • Total 28.91 km2 (11.16 sq mi)
Population (2014)[2]
 • Total 182
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)

Garde or Garda is a settlement on the Swedish island of Gotland. Formerly a socken,[3] on 1 January 2016, it was reconstituted into the administrative area Garde District.[4]

Geography

Garde is the name of the socken, now district. It is also the name of the small village surrounding the medieval Garde Church,[5] sometimes referred to as Garde kyrkby. It is situated in the eastern part of Gotland.[6]

One of the largest cairns on Gotland, the Digerrojr (not to be confused with the eponymous cairn in Alskog) or Graips rojr, is in Garda. It is approximately 5 m (16 ft) high and 35 m (115 ft) in diameter. It is surrounded by standing stones and a rock that is thought to have been used for some kind of sacrifices.[7]

One of the asteroids in the asteroid belt, 10808 Digerrojr, is named after the Digerrojr cairn in Garde.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Carlquist, Gunnar, ed. (1947–1955). "Garde socken". Svensk Uppslagsbok (in Swedish) (2nd ed.). Malmö: Förlagshuset Norden.
  2. ↑ "Gotland i siffror 2015" [Gotland in numbers 2015]. www.gotland.se. Gotland Municipality. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  3. ↑ The exact extent of the socken, now district, can be obtained by clicking on Kartinställningar and check the Socken box in the menu of this map from the Swedish National Heritage Board database.
  4. ↑ "Förordning om district" [Regulation of districts] (PDF). Ministry of Finance. 17 June 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  5. ↑ Lagerlöf, Erland; Svahnström, Gunnar (1973). Gotlands kyrkor [Gotland's Churces] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren. pp. 148–149. ISBN 91-29-41035-5. LIBRIS 7232718.
  6. ↑ "Garde". www.ne.se. Nationalencyklopedin. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  7. ↑ Enderborg, Bernt. "Digerrojr". www.guteinfo.com. Guteinfo. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  8. ↑ "10808 Digerrojr (1993 FT5)". NASA. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
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