Roma (Gotland)

Roma (Roma monastery)
Roma (Roma monastery)
State :	Sweden
Province  (län):	Gotland County
Historical Province (landskap):	Gotland
Municipality  :	Gotland
Coordinates :	57 ° 30 '  N , 18 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 57 ° 30 '  N , 18 ° 27'  E
SCB code :	2532
Status:	Crime scene
Residents :	1198 (December 31, 2015)
Area :	2.28 km²
Population density :	525 inhabitants / km²
List of perpetrators in Gotland County

Roma or Romakloster is a place ( Swedish tatort ) on the Swedish Baltic Sea island Gotland in the province of Gotland County and the historical province of Gotland. It is located about 18 km southeast of Visby , roughly in the middle of the island, which also forms the municipality of Gotland . 11 km south is the Lindhammarsmyr .

The church of Roma is located in the district of Lövsta or Roma kyrkby about two kilometers northwest of the town center. Roma belongs in roughly equal parts to the parishes ( Swedish socken ) Roma and Björke (with Björke's church ).

Aerial view

Sugar factory, now a whiskey distillery

Manor at the Roma monastery

Meaning had Roma both as Thingplace for Central Gotland, and later as the site of the Roma monastery , which in 1164 by the Cistercians was founded and located about midway between Roma and Lövsta (Roma kyrkby). Later, the place was an important junction of the narrow-gauge railways on Gotland , which were shut down in the 1960s.

The local sugar factory , which closed in 1997, was one of the largest industrial operations on the island. Today there is a whiskey distillery here . The “Isle of Lime” whiskey has been distilled here since 2004. The distillery can be visited.

To the confusion with the Italian name of Rome to avoid using Romakloster for the mailing address. This name is also the official name of the Statistiska centralbyrån for the crime scene.

Population development

The table shows the population development from 1960 to 2015 (in 1980 and 1990 Roma (kloster) and Roma (kyrkby) / Lövsta were listed as a common crime scene, as they have been since 2015).

year	surface	Residents
1960	k. A.	579
1970	k. A.	750
1980	k. A.	1153
1990	k. A.	1100
2000	123	877
2010	126	913
2015	228	1198

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Statistiska centralbyrån : Land area per crime scene, folkmängd och invånare per square kilometer. Vart femte år 1960 - 2015 (database query)
2. ^ Roma (Roma monastery), Gotland - befolkning. In: befolkningen.com. Retrieved January 27, 2013 (Swedish). 
3. ↑ Website of the distillery
4. ↑ Statistiska centralbyrån - Folkmängd i tatorter 1960-2005. (PDF; 590 kB) Archived from the original on June 23, 2011 ; Retrieved January 15, 2012 .