Fole

Fole

Fole Church
Fole
Coordinates: 57°39′2″N 18°32′41″E / 57.65056°N 18.54472°E / 57.65056; 18.54472Coordinates: 57°39′2″N 18°32′41″E / 57.65056°N 18.54472°E / 57.65056; 18.54472
Country Sweden
Province Gotland
County Gotland County
Municipality Gotland Municipality
Population (2010)[1]
 • Total 427
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Website www.fole.se

Fole is a settlement on the Swedish island of Gotland. Formerly a socken,[2] on 1 January 2016, it was reconstituted into the administrative area Fole District.[3]

Geography

Fole is the name of the socken, now district. It is also the name of the small village surrounding the medieval Fole Church,[4] sometimes referred to as Fole kyrkby. It is situated in the central northern part of Gotland.[5]

One of the asteroids in the Asteroid belt, 10129 Fole, is named after this place.[6]

Parish

Fole Church is a 13th-century edifice mixing Romanesque and Gothic elements. Fole is a part of Väskinde parish.[7] Fole Idrottsförening ("Fole Sports Club") is one of the oldest on Gotland, founded in 1894.[8] A number of gold bracteates and other Viking Age jewelry has been found at Fole.[9]

Farms

Fole consist of a number of farms over a larger area.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Gotland i siffror 2015" [Gotland in numbers 2015]. www.gotland.se. Gotland Municipality. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ "Förordning om district" [Regulation of districts] (PDF). Ministry of Finance. 17 June 2015. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
  4. ↑ Lagerlöf, Erland; Svahnström, Gunnar (1973). Gotlands kyrkor [Gotland's Churces] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren. pp. 137–140. ISBN 91-29-41035-5. LIBRIS 7232718.
  5. ↑ "Fole". www.ne.se. Nationalencyklopedin. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
  6. ↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". NASA. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
  7. ↑ "Välkommen till Väskinde församling". Website. Svenska Kyrkan. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  8. ↑ "Idrottsförening". Website. Fole Socken. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  9. ↑ "Bild 29230". Website, data base. Historiska museet. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  10. ↑ "Fole kyrka". www.guteinfo.se. Guteinfo.se. Retrieved 3 June 2014.

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