Klintehamn

Klintehamn
Klintehamn
State :	Sweden
Province  (län):	Gotland County
Historical Province (landskap):	Gotland
Municipality  :	Gotland
Coordinates :	57 ° 23 '  N , 18 ° 12'  E Coordinates: 57 ° 23 '  N , 18 ° 12'  E
SCB code :	2520
Status:	Crime scene
Residents :	1490 (December 31, 2015)
Area :	2.92 km²
Population density :	510 inhabitants / km²
List of perpetrators in Gotland County

Klintehamn is a place ( Tatort ) on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Gotland County and the historic Gotland Province .

The place in the municipality of Gotland is located on the west coast of the island, about 32 km south of Visby .

The old harbor square is adjacent to the former pirate nest of the Vitalienbrüder . It only experienced its boom to become the island's most important port at the end of the 18th century, when it established the connections to Öland ( Gaxa / Böda ) and the mainland and the merchants Georg Matthias and Jacob Niclas Donner settled here, as well as a shipping company and a shipyard erected.

Warfsholm is the venue for the “Music by the Sea” festival every summer.

Personalities

• Martin Bodin (born September 29, 1903 in Klintehamn, † October 7, 1976 in Sollentuna) was a Swedish cameraman.

Nearby

Vivesholm

The remains of Klinteholm Castle, also known as the Landskrone, are located on the Vivesholm promontory near the village. It was built by Albrecht von Mecklenburg's son Erich in 1394 and destroyed again by the Teutonic Order in 1398 when the Vitalienbrüder were expelled . North of Klintehamn lying Fischer point of Kovik with a fishing Museum and the four in-line bronze temporal vessel at ratios Rannarve .

literature

• Marita Jonsson, Sven-Olof Lindquist: Gotland cultural guide . Almqvist and Wiksell, Uppsala 1993, ISBN 91-88036-09-X .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Statistiska centralbyrån : Land area per Tatort, folkmängd and invånare per square kilometer. Vart femte år 1960 - 2015 (database query)