Garde, Gotland Explained

Official Name:Garde
Native Name:Garda
Garde 
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
Area Footnotes:[1]
Area Total Km2:28.91
Population As Of:2014
Population Footnotes:[2]
Population Total:182
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Coordinates:57.3169°N 18.5819°W

Garde (in Swedish pronounced as /ˈɡɑ̂ːɖɛ/)[3] or Garda is a populated area, a socken (not to be confused with parish), on the Swedish island of Gotland.[4] It comprises the same area as the administrative Garde District, established on 1January 2016.[5] It was the birth place of the marine biologist Adolf Appellöf (1857).

Geography

Garde is the name of the socken as well as the district. It is also the name of the small village surrounding the medieval Garde Church,[6] sometimes referred to as Garde kyrkby. It is situated in the eastern part of Gotland.[7]

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 5m (16feet) high and 35m (115feet) in diameter. It is surrounded by standing stones and a rock that is thought to have been used for some kind of sacrifices.[8]

, Garde Church belongs to Garde parish, along with the churches in Etelhem, Alskog, Lye and Ardre.[9] [10]

One of the asteroids in the asteroid belt, 10808 Digerrojr, is named after the Digerrojr cairn in Garde.[11]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Carlquist, Gunnar. Svensk Uppslagsbok. 1947–1955. Förlagshuset Norden. Malmö. 2nd. Garde socken. sv.
  2. Web site: Gotland i siffror 2015. Gotland in numbers 2015. www.gotland.se. Gotland Municipality. 21 June 2016. 30 January 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180130042935/http://gotland.se/64224. dead.
  3. Book: Svenska ortnamn med uttalsuppgifter. Jöran Sahlgren. Gösta Bergman. sv. 1979. 9.
  4. 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.
  5. Web site: Förordning om district. Regulation of districts. 17 June 2015. Ministry of Finance. 21 June 2016.
  6. Book: Lagerlöf. Erland. Svahnström. Gunnar. Gotlands kyrkor. Gotland's Churches. sv. . 1973. Rabén & Sjögren. Stockholm. 91-29-41035-5. 148–149.
  7. Web site: Garde. www.ne.se. Nationalencyklopedin. 21 June 2016.
  8. Web site: Enderborg. Bernt. Digerrojr. www.guteinfo.com. Guteinfo. 21 June 2016.
  9. Web site: Församlingar på Gotland . www.svenskakyrkan.se . . 12 January 2019.
  10. Web site: Visby stifts indelning 2018 . www.svenskakyrkan.se . . 12 January 2019.
  11. Web site: 10808 Digerrojr (1993 FT5). NASA. 21 June 2016.