Paviken (lake)
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| Geographical location | Gotland , Sweden | |
| Location close to the shore | Tofta (Gotland) | |
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| Coordinates | 57 ° 27 '17 " N , 18 ° 8' 27" E | |
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| surface | 26 ha | |
| Maximum depth | 1 m | |
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particularities |
Was a bay and a harbor during the Viking Age. |
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The shallow lake Paviken is the last visible evidence of an Iron Age trading post on the west coast of the Swedish island of Gotland , which was used by the Vikings between 800 and 1050 AD . Until the 10th century Paviken was a port in a sea bay, the entrance to which was about 100 m wide at the narrowest point. Due to the land elevation of around 2.5 m in the last 1000 years, the port lost its importance in the Middle Ages . The now canalised river Idå flows into the east beach of Paviken and drained the now drained Vikmoor.
history
Both Visby and Paviken and the neighboring Västergarn are among the places on the coast of Gotland, which the prehistoric Thingplace of Roma are close. At the same time or before, Bandlundeviken , Bogeviken and Fröjel were used as trading centers on Gotland . The conditions for an early port in Paviken were among the most favorable on Gotland.
The imported goods testify to contacts with the Baltic States , the Orient and the Rhineland as well as with England , Italy and Northern Scandinavia . The port was abandoned at the end of the 10th century, the place burned down. The results of this excavation were fundamental for the exploration of the early trading centers. In the 1980s the remains of a locking device were found. Paviken is now a 74 hectare nature reserve.
nature
Today the lake has an area of 0.26 km². Together with its surroundings it forms a nature reserve and Natura 2000 area, which is frequented by many birds.
literature
- Horst-Wolfgang Böhme : Thoughts on the early market and trading centers in southern Scandinavia. In: Ernst Pohl, Udo Recker , Claudia Theune (eds.): Archäologisches Zellwerk. Contributions to cultural history in Europe and Asia. Festschrift for Helmut Roth on his 60th birthday . (= International Archeology . Studia honoraria 16.). 2001, pp. 483-498.
- Johan Callmer : Urbanization in Scandinavia and the Baltic Region c. AD 700-1000 . In: Björn Ambrosiani, Helen Clarke (Eds.): Developments around the Baltic and the North Sea in the Viking Age . 1994, pp. 50-90.
- Heiko Steuer : Paviken. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 22, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017351-4 , pp. 537-538.
- Lena Thunmark-Nylén: Gotland's Viking Age . In: Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Academies . Stockholm 2006, ISBN 9174023551 .
Web links
- Paviken (lake) - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
- Photo from today's Paviken
- guteinfo: nature reserve (swedish)
- Guteinfo: historic trading center Västergarn (Swedish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paviken. In: guteinfo.com. Retrieved January 31, 2012 (Swedish).
- ↑ Paviken. In: European Environment Agency. Retrieved January 31, 2012 .
- ↑ Paviken Natura 2000. (PDF; 3.3 MB) In: Länsstyrelsen Gotland. Retrieved January 31, 2012 (Swedish).
- ↑ Paviken nature reserve. (No longer available online.) In: Länsstyrelsen Gotland. Archived from the original on July 27, 2011 ; Retrieved January 31, 2012 (Swedish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
