Hablingbo

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Hablingbo
Hablingbo train station
Hablingbo train station
Hablingbo is located in Gotland
Hablingbo
Hablingbo
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Country Sweden
Province Gotland
County Gotland County
Municipality Gotland Municipality
Area[1]
 • Total 52 km2 (20 sq mi)
Population (2014)[2]
 • Total 247
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Website hablingbo.info

Hablingbo is a settlement on the island of Gotland, Sweden.[3] Formerly a socken,[4] on 1 January 2016, the socken was reconstituted into the administrative area Hablingbo District.[5] In 1961, the Havor hoard was found at a hillfort in the small village of Havor in Hablingbo.[6]

Geography

Hablingbo is the name of the small village surrounding the medieval Hablingbo Church,[7] sometimes referred to as Hablingbo kyrkby. The name is also used for the larger surrounding area, Hablingbo socken. It is situated on the southwest coast of Gotland. The area is rural with farming as the main source of income. Part of the farmed land is on the now drained Mästermyr mire. In the west, towards the coast, there are forests.[1][3][8]

History

The name of the socken is first mentioned in 1320 as Hagbardlingabo. The last part bo means "district". The first part haghbardhlingar is a combination of Medieval expressions, where inge means "indweller", and Hagbardh a combination of hagh meaning "enclosure" and bardh for "high ridge" which refers to the ridge the Hablingbo Church is built on. This gives "they who hold thing on Hagbardh as the meaning of haghbardhlingar.[3][9]

In Hablingbo there are a couple of grave cairns from the Bronze Age as well as about a dozen smaller Iron Age grave fields plus one major at Havor. There are house foundations, stone walls, grooves and two hillsforts from the Iron Age. Two Viking silver treasures have been found in addition to the Havor Ring – one of Sweden's most unique gold finds.[3][8][10][11][12] The present socken dates back to Medieval times.[9]

The Petes farm built in the late 18th century, is still intact and since 1965, it is maintained by Gotland Museum as a museum farm.[13]

At the beginning of the 20th century, Hablingbo was a station on one of the now discontinued railway lines on Gotland. The station house was built in 1920. [14]

References

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  4. ↑ 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.
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