Fole
Fole Church
Fole Church
Fole is located in Gotland
Fole
Fole
Coordinates: 57°39′2″N 18°32′41″E / 57.65056°N 18.54472°E / 57.65056; 18.54472
CountrySweden
ProvinceGotland
CountyGotland County
MunicipalityGotland Municipality
Population
 (2010)[1]
 • Total427
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Websitewww.fole.se

Fole (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈfûːlɛ])[2] is a populated area, a socken (not to be confused with parish), on the Swedish island of Gotland.[3] It comprises the same area as the administrative Fole District, established on 1 January 2016.[4]

Geography

Fole is the name of the socken as well as the district. It is also the name of the small village surrounding the medieval Fole Church,[5] sometimes referred to as Fole kyrkby. It is situated in the central northern part of Gotland.[6]

Fole Church is a 13th-century edifice mixing Romanesque and Gothic elements. As of 2019, Fole Church belongs to Väskinde parish in Norra Gotlands pastorat, along with the churches in Bro, Väskinde, Lokrume, Hejnum and Bäl.[7][8]

One of the asteroids in the Asteroid belt, 10129 Fole, is named after this place.[9]

History

A number of gold bracteates and other Viking Age jewelry has been found at Fole.[10]

Fole Idrottsförening ("Fole Sports Club") is one of the oldest on Gotland, founded in 1894.[11]

Gallery

References

  1. ^ "Gotland i siffror 2015" [Gotland in numbers 2015]. www.gotland.se. Gotland Municipality. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  2. ^ Jöran Sahlgren; Gösta Bergman (1979). Svenska ortnamn med uttalsuppgifter (in Swedish). p. 8.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "Förordning om district" [Regulation of districts] (PDF). Ministry of Finance. 17 June 2015. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
  5. ^ Lagerlöf, Erland; Svahnström, Gunnar (1973). Gotlands kyrkor [Gotland's Churches] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren. pp. 137–140. ISBN 91-29-41035-5. SELIBR 7232718.
  6. ^ "Fole". www.ne.se. Nationalencyklopedin. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
  7. ^ "Församlingar på Gotland". www.svenskakyrkan.se. Church of Sweden. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  8. ^ "Visby stifts indelning 2018". www.svenskakyrkan.se. Church of Sweden. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  9. ^ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". NASA. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
  10. ^ "Bild 29230". Website, data base. Historiska museet. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  11. ^ "Idrottsförening". Website. Fole Socken. Retrieved 28 May 2014.

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