Hosby (Vormsi)
Coordinates: 58 ° 59 ' N , 23 ° 21' E
Hosby (German Hosbi , Estonian Swedish Hosbe ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality of Vormsi ( Vormsi vald ) in Lääne County . The place is in the southeast of the fourth largest Estonian island Vormsi (German Worms , Swedish Ormsö ).
description
The place was built on the site of the former Söderby manor , directly on the Baltic Sea coast .
Hosby has no residents today (as of December 31, 2011). Like all Vormsis villages, the place was mostly populated by Estonian Swedes until the Second World War .
Between Hosby and the village of Sviby there is a large boulder , the Skärestein . It has a circumference of 22 meters and a height of 3.4 meters. The stone has been under nature protection since 1941.
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