Garde () or Garda is a populated area, a ''

socken Socken is the name used for a part of a county in Sweden. In Denmark similar areas are known as ''sogn'', in Norway ''sokn'' or ''sogn'' and in Finland ''pitäjä'' ''(socken)''. A socken is a country-side area that was formed around a church, ...

'' (not to be confused with

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or ...

), on the Swedish island of

Gotland Gotland (, ; ''Gutland'' in Gutnish), also historically spelled Gottland or Gothland (), is Sweden's largest island. It is also a province, county, municipality, and diocese. The province includes the islands of Fårö and Gotska Sandön to ...

. It comprises the same area as the administrative Garde District, established on 1January 2016. It was the birth place of the marine biologist

Adolf Appellöf Jakob Johan Adolf Appellöf ( Garda on Gotland 2 November 1857 – Uppsala 5 January 1921) was a Swedish marine zoologist. Appellöf matriculated at Uppsala University in 1877, earned his PhD in 1886 and became a docent of zoology in 1887. In 18 ...

(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 In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire a ...

Garde Church, sometimes referred to as ''Garde kyrkby''. It is situated in the eastern part of Gotland. One of the largest

cairn A cairn is a man-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word ''cairn'' comes from the gd, càrn (plural ). Cairns have been and are used for a broad variety of purposes. In prehi ...

s on Gotland, the Digerrojr (not to be confused with the eponymous cairn in Alskog) or Graips rojr, is in Garda. It is approximately high and in diameter. It is surrounded by standing stones and a rock that is thought to have been used for some kind of

sacrifice Sacrifice is the offering of material possessions or the lives of animals or humans to a deity as an act of propitiation or worship. Evidence of ritual animal sacrifice has been seen at least since ancient Hebrews and Greeks, and possibly exis ...

s. , Garde Church belongs to Garde

, along with the churches in

Etelhem Etelhem 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 Etelhem District, established on 1January 2016. Geography Etelhem is the name of the ...

, Alskog, Lye and Ardre. One of the

asteroid An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ranging from 1-meter rocks to a dwarf planet almost 1000 km in diameter; they are rocky, metallic or icy bodies with no atmosphere. ...

s in the

asteroid belt The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, located roughly between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars. It contains a great many solid, irregularly shaped bodies, of many sizes, but much smaller than planets, c ...

, 10808 Digerrojr, is named after the Digerrojr cairn in Garde.

References

External links

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Objects from Garde at the Digital Museum
by Nordic Museum Populated places in Gotland County {{Gotland-geo-stub