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Sundre, Gotland
Sundre is a populated area, a socken (not to be confused with parish), on the Swedish island of Gotland. It comprises the same area as the administrative Sundre District, established on 1January 2016. Geography Sundre is the name of the socken as well as the district. It is also the name of the small village surrounding the medieval Sundre Church, sometimes referred to as ''Sundre kyrkby''. It is the southernmost socken on the island, situated on the south tip of Gotland on the Storsudret peninsula. On the south coast of Sundre is the Hoburg lighthouse as well as the rauk (sea stack) area known as Hoburgen. One of the rauks is the noted ''Hoburgsgubben'' ("Old Man Hoburg"). South of Hoburgen is the Hoburg Shoal bird reserve. , Sundre Church belongs to Hoburg parish in Sudrets pastorat, along with the churches in Öja, Hamra, Vamlingbo and Fide. One of the asteroids in the asteroid belt, 9374 Sundre, is named after this place. References External links *Objects fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country
A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state, nation, or other political entity. It may be a sovereign state or make up one part of a larger state. For example, the country of Japan is an independent, sovereign state, while the country of Wales is a component of a multi-part sovereign state, the United Kingdom. A country may be a historically sovereign area (such as Korea), a currently sovereign territory with a unified government (such as Senegal), or a non-sovereign geographic region associated with certain distinct political, ethnic, or cultural characteristics (such as the Basque Country). The definition and usage of the word "country" is flexible and has changed over time. ''The Economist'' wrote in 2010 that "any attempt to find a clear definition of a country soon runs into a thicket of exceptions and anomalies." Most sovereign states, but not all countries, are members of the United Nations. The largest country by area is Russia, while the smallest is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabén & Sjögren
Rabén & Sjögren is a book publishing company in Sweden. It was established in 1942 by and . Since 1998 it has been part of Norstedts förlag. The publishing focus is on children's and youth literature. Rabén & Sjögren was very successful, publishing the books of Astrid Lindgren. Other authors include Enid Blyton and Jostein Gaarder. Rabén & Sjögren also published ''Svenskt författarlexikon , subtitled , is a Swedish biobibliographical dictionary of Swedish-language authors published by Rabén & Sjögren between 1942 and 1981, covering the years 1900–1975 in seven parts in ten volumes. The first part in three volumes was publis ...'' ('Dictionary of Swedish Authors'), a bibliobiographical dictionary of Swedish-language authors in ten volumes between 1942 and 1981. References External linksRabén & Sjögren Book publishing companies of Sweden Publishing companies established in 1942 1942 establishments in Sweden {{sweden-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fide, Gotland
Fide is a populated area, a socken (not to be confused with parish), on the Swedish island of Gotland. It comprises the same area as the administrative Fide District, established on 1January 2016. Geography Fide is situated on the narrow southern isthmus that connects the Storsudret peninsula to Gotland. The medieval Fide Church is located in the socken. , Fide Church belongs to Hoburg parish in Sudrets pastorat, along with the churches in Öja, Hamra, Vamlingbo and Sundre. One of the asteroids in the asteroid belt, 10123 Fideöja, is named after this place and the neighboring Öja socken. History On a wall of the Fide Church is a piece of 13th-century graffiti depicting a ship. It was carved into the plaster while it was still soft during the construction of the church. It is the first image of a cog in the world. The proportions differ slightly from those of the later medieval cogs and it corresponds with a cog-like ship from the 12th century, found at Kronholmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vamlingbo
Vamlingbo is a populated area, a socken (not to be confused with parish), on the Swedish island of Gotland. It comprises the same area as the administrative Vamlingbo District, established on 1January 2016. Geography Vamlingbo is the name of the socken as well as the district. It is also the name of the small village surrounding the medieval Vamlingbo Church, sometimes referred to as ''Vamlingbo kyrkby''. Vamlingbo is situated on the south tip of Gotland. , Vamlingbo Church belongs to Hoburg parish in Sudrets pastorat, along with the churches in Öja, Hamra, Sundre and Fide. Two of the asteroids in the Asteroid belt, 9372 Vamlingbo and 10105 Holmhällar, are named after this socken and the stack area. Holmhällar Holmhällar is a beach and a rauk area along the Vamlingbo south coast, right across from Heligholmen island. At Holmhällar is the Holm fishing village with stone fishing huts that are several hundred years old. Adjacent to the stack area are the beaches of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamra, Gotland
Hamra is a populated area, a socken (not to be confused with parish), on the Swedish island of Gotland. It comprises the same area as the administrative Hamra District, established on 1January 2016. Geography Hamra is situated on the southeastern tip of Gotland. The medieval Hamra Church is located in the socken. The small Vändburg harbor and Hammarhage Hällar sea stack area are also in Hamra. Hamra has given its name to the Hamra formation, one of the Silurian sedimentary rock formations which make up Gotland. , Hamra Church belongs to Hoburg parish in Sudrets pastorat, along with the churches in Öja, Vamlingbo, Sundre and Fide. One of the asteroids in the asteroid belt, 9373 Hamra, is named after this place. References External links *Objects from Hamra at the Digital Museumby Nordic Museum The Nordic Museum ( sv, Nordiska museet) is a museum located on Djurgården, an island in central Stockholm, Sweden, dedicated to the cultural history and ethnog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Öja, Gotland
Öja is a populated area, a socken (not to be confused with parish), on the Swedish island of Gotland. It comprises the same area as the administrative Öja District, established on 1January 2016. Geography Öja is situated partly on the narrow southern isthmus that connects the Storsudret peninsula to Gotland and partly on the peninsula itself. The medieval Öja Church is located in the socken. The locality Burgsvik is in the west part of Öja. , Öja Church belongs to Hoburg parish in Sudrets pastorat, along with the churches in Hamra, Vamlingbo, Sundre and Fide. One of the asteroids in the asteroid belt, 10123 Fideöja, is named after this place and the neighboring Fide socken. ''Öjamadonnan'' Öja is mostly known for the , 13th century, wooden sculpture ''Öjamadonnan'' ("The Öja Madonna"), a Stabat Mater representation of the Virgin Mary. The Catholic statue was removed from the Öja Church during the Swedish Reformation and stowed away in a woodshed. It w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pastorat
The Church of Sweden ( sv, Svenska kyrkan) is an Evangelical Lutheran national church in Sweden. A former state church, headquartered in Uppsala, with around 5.6 million members at year end 2021, it is the largest Christian denomination in Sweden, the largest Lutheran denomination in Europe and the third-largest in the world, after the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. A member of the Porvoo Communion, the church professes Lutheranism. It is composed of thirteen dioceses, divided into parishes. It is an open national church which, working with a democratic organisation and through the ministry of the church, covers the whole nation. The Primate of the Church of Sweden, as well as the Metropolitan of all Sweden, is the Archbishop of Uppsala. Today, the Church of Sweden is an Evangelical Lutheran church. It is liturgically and theologically "high church", having retained priests, vestments, and the Mass during the Swedis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoburg Shoal
Hoburg Shoal, also known as Hoburgs bank, is a shoal located in the Baltic Sea, in the southern zone of the Gotland shelf, south of Hoburgen. The shoal is a bird reserve encompassing about . Geography It is a long shoal, comprising a northern and a southern section, that lies to the south of the Storsudret peninsula in Sundre socken on the southern tip of Gotland, Sweden.Google Earth Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D computer graphics, 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery. The program maps the Earth by superimposition, superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and geog ... The submerged shoal's water depths range between about . History , a pipeline is projected that may cross the area of the shoal. References External links Full text of "07WARSAW1975" Shoals of the Baltic Sea Gotland Bird sanctuaries {{Sweden-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wahlström & Widstrand
Wahlström & Widstrand is a Swedish book publishing company. Wahlström & Widstrand was established in 1885 by two book sellers in Stockholm, Per Karl Wahlström and Wilhelm Widstrand. The company started publishing fiction in the 1890s and later also published non-fiction works, especially historical biographies. Foreign authors introduced by Wahlström & Widstrand to Swedish readers in the first half of the 20th century include Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann, Joseph Conrad, Maxim Gorky and Henri Bergson as well as later authors such as Franz Kafka in the 1940s, William Styron in the 1950s and Joseph Heller in the 1960s. Numerous acclaimed Swedish writers have been discovered by the publishing house of Wahlström & Widstrand, and it has also published several Nobel Prize winners such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, Derek Walcott, Wole Soyinka, Joseph Brodsky, José Saramago, V. S. Naipaul and Herta Müller. Swedish writers published by the company include ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoburgsgubben
Hoburgen is a rauk (sea stack) area on the Storsudret peninsula in Sundre socken on the southern tip of Gotland, Sweden. The area contains one of Gotland's most noted rauks, the ''Hoburgsgubben'' ("Old Man Hoburg"). One of the asteroids in the asteroid belt, 10104 Hoburgsgubben, is named after it. South of Hoburgen is the Hoburg Shoal bird reserve. Hoburgen is also one of the permanent weather stations along the Swedish coast. It is reported from daily in the Swedish Shipping Forecast. Climate Hoburgen has a maritime climate with less differences between summer and winter than mainland Sweden. Its position on the edge of the peninsula that makes up the southern tip of the island, ensures that wind mainly travels over the Baltic Sea, tempering the warm summers of around , preventing them from turning into heat waves. The very same effect ensures that Hoburgen rarely if ever gets cold winters by typical Swedish standards. Another effect is the seasonal lag Seasonal lag is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoburgen
Hoburgen is a rauk (sea stack) area on the Storsudret peninsula in Sundre socken on the southern tip of Gotland, Sweden. The area contains one of Gotland's most noted rauks, the ''Hoburgsgubben'' ("Old Man Hoburg"). One of the asteroids in the asteroid belt, 10104 Hoburgsgubben, is named after it. South of Hoburgen is the Hoburg Shoal bird reserve. Hoburgen is also one of the permanent weather stations along the Swedish coast. It is reported from daily in the Swedish Shipping Forecast. Climate Hoburgen has a maritime climate with less differences between summer and winter than mainland Sweden. Its position on the edge of the peninsula that makes up the southern tip of the island, ensures that wind mainly travels over the Baltic Sea, tempering the warm summers of around , preventing them from turning into heat waves. The very same effect ensures that Hoburgen rarely if ever gets cold winters by typical Swedish standards. Another effect is the seasonal lag Seasonal lag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
