Gudhjem
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| Region : | Hovedstaden | ||||
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Municipality (since 2003) : |
Bornholm's regional commune | ||||
| Coordinates : | 55 ° 13 ′ N , 14 ° 58 ′ E | ||||
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Population : (2020) |
742 | ||||
| Postal code : | 3760 Gudhjem | ||||
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Gudhjem is a small town on the north coast of the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea . On January 1, 2020, 742 people lived there. The place name literally means "home of the gods".
Gudhjem is only one and a half angular minutes west of the 15th degree of longitude , on which Central European Time (CET) corresponds to the mean solar time . In Denmark the CET is therefore also called “Gudhjem time”.
history
Gudhjem is an old fishing village. Until a great plague epidemic in the middle of the 17th century, what is probably the oldest port city on the island was also one of the largest places. A large herring market took place here in the Middle Ages for merchants from the Hanseatic cities . Today Gudhjem is a popular tourist destination due to its idyllic location. Gudhjem was part of Allinge-Gudhjem Municipality until December 31, 2002 .
Attractions
The port and the fish smokehouse there are important for tourism. Excursion boats leave the quay for Christiansø in the summer season . The island marks the easternmost point of Denmark.
The Danish painter Oluf Høst , born in Svaneke in 1884 , returned to Bornholm in 1929 and moved into a house in Gudhjems Løkkegade , which he was able to buy in 1935. It developed into a meeting place for painters and intellectuals. Until his death in 1966 he lived and worked in Gudhjem and the surrounding area, so that in his town / farm views and landscapes there are also many winter motifs, in contrast to most other painters who came to the island mainly in summer. In 1998, Høst's house and city garden at Bokul was converted into a museum that preserves his work and is committed to him.
The small local history museum housed in the former train station is a private initiative. It offers changing art and natural history exhibitions.
At the Gråmyr pond and on the slope of the Salne Bugt to the northwest of the village, there are building stones , the so-called Hestestene (horse stones ).
At Rø (5 km to the west) the granite cliffs Helligdomsklipperne drop 22 meters into the sea. Bornholm's art museum is very close by .
In the direction of Tejn there are early stone setting and building stones in Troldskoven .
The Østerlars Kirke in Østerlars (5 km south) dates from the 11th century. It is one of four round churches typical of Bornholm . They were built as fortified churches in the Middle Ages . The loopholes on the upper floor of the church bear witness to this. The characteristic conical roof was added later. The church of Gudhjem, located on a hill, was built in 1893 from granite in the neo-Romanesque style near the St. Anne's Chapel from around 1200 (now in ruins). The altarpiece from around 1475 shows Bornholms only Mariatafel with her deathbed.
gallery
View over Gudhjem
Karl Isakson: View over Gudhjem , 1921. Bornholms Kunstmuseum .
At the port
Oluf Høst Museum
Hestestene
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Statistics Banks -> Befolkning og valg -> BY1: Folketal January 1st efter byområde, alder og køn (Danish)
- ↑ Heinrich Beck, Detlev Ellmers, Kurt Schier (ed.): Germanic religious history. Sources and source problems , p. 525; J. Kousgård Sørensen: Gudhem , in: Frühmittelalterliche Studien 19 (1985), pp. 131-38.
- ↑ Oluf Høst Museet Official Website (Danish, German, English)
