Fole Explained

Official Name:Fole
Pushpin Map:Sweden Gotland
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Sweden
Subdivision Type3:Municipality
Subdivision Name3:Gotland Municipality
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Gotland County
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Gotland
Population As Of:2010
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:427
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Coordinates:57.6506°N 18.5447°W

Fole (in Swedish pronounced as /ˈfûːlɛ/)[2] is a populated area, a socken (not to be confused with parish), on the Swedish island of Gotland.[3] It comprises the same area as the administrative Fole District, established on 1January 2016.[4]

Geography

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

Fole Church is a 13th-century edifice mixing Romanesque and Gothic elements., Fole Church belongs to Väskinde parish in Norra Gotlands pastorat, along with the churches in Bro, Väskinde, Lokrume, Hejnum andBäl.[7] [8]

One of the asteroids in the Asteroid belt, 10129 Fole, is named after this place.[9]

History

A number of gold bracteates and other Viking Age jewelry has been found at Fole.[10]

Fole Idrottsförening ("Fole Sports Club") is one of the oldest on Gotland, founded in 1894.[11]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gotland i siffror 2015. Gotland in numbers 2015. www.gotland.se. Gotland Municipality. 25 May 2016. 30 January 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180130042935/http://gotland.se/64224. dead.
  2. Book: Svenska ortnamn med uttalsuppgifter. Jöran Sahlgren. Gösta Bergman. sv. 1979. 8.
  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. Web site: Förordning om district. Regulation of districts. 17 June 2015. Ministry of Finance. 24 May 2016.
  5. Book: Lagerlöf. Erland. Svahnström. Gunnar. Gotlands kyrkor. Gotland's Churches. sv. . 1973. Rabén & Sjögren. Stockholm. 91-29-41035-5. 137–140.
  6. Web site: Fole. www.ne.se. Nationalencyklopedin. 27 May 2016.
  7. Web site: Församlingar på Gotland . www.svenskakyrkan.se . . 11 January 2019.
  8. Web site: Visby stifts indelning 2018 . www.svenskakyrkan.se . . 11 January 2019.
  9. Web site: JPL Small-Body Database Browser . 2008-04-25 . NASA.
  10. Web site: Bild 29230. Website, data base. Historiska museet. 28 May 2014.
  11. Web site: Idrottsförening. Website. Fole Socken. 28 May 2014.