Gudme is a town in central

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with a population of 907 (1 January 2022), located in Svendborg municipality on the island of

Funen Funen ( da, Fyn, ), with an area of , is the third-largest island of Denmark, after Zealand and Vendsyssel-Thy. It is the 165th-largest island in the world. It is located in the central part of the country and has a population of 469,947 as of ...

Region of Southern Denmark The Region of Southern Denmark ( da, Region Syddanmark, ; german: Region Süddänemark, ; frr, Regiuun Syddanmark) is an administrative Regions of Denmark, region of Denmark established on Monday 1 January 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Munici ...

. Until 1 January 2007, it was the site of the municipal council of the now former Gudme municipality.

History

Gudme was an important site during the

Iron Age The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humanity. It was preceded by the Stone Age (Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic) and the Bronze Age (Chalcolithic). The concept has been mostly appl ...

. Numerous archeological finds dating from the 3rd to the 6th century have been made here; they include large amounts of gold treasure and the remains of what is assumed to have been a royal palace.

Bracteates A bracteate (from the Latin ''bractea'', a thin piece of metal) is a flat, thin, single-sided gold medal worn as jewelry that was produced in Northern Europe predominantly during the Migration Period of the Germanic Iron Age (including the Vende ...

were produced at the site during that period, indicating a

shamanic Shamanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman) interacting with what they believe to be a spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance. The goal of this is usually to direct spirits or spiritu ...

culture in Gudme. The name of the town means "gods' home", leading to the assumption that it was an important religious site as well.

Notable people

* Hannibal Sehested (1842 in Gudme – 1924) a Danish landowner and

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1900/1901

References

External links

Svendborg municipality
Cities and towns in the Region of Southern Denmark Archaeological sites in Denmark Svendborg Municipality Populated places in Funen {{SouthernDK-stub