Väskinde

Väskinde
Väskinde
State :	Sweden
Province  (län):	Gotland County
Historical Province (landskap):	Gotland
Municipality  :	Gotland
Coordinates :	57 ° 41 ′  N , 18 ° 25 ′  E Coordinates: 57 ° 41 ′  N , 18 ° 25 ′  E
SCB code :	2556
Status:	Crime scene
Residents :	337 (December 31, 2015)
Area :	0.44 km²
Population density :	766 inhabitants / km²
List of perpetrators in Gotland County

Väskinde is a place ( Tatort ) on the Swedish Baltic Sea island Gotland in the Gotland County and the historic Gotland Province. The place in the municipality of Gotland is about ten kilometers from the main town Visby .

The Väskinde church dates from the 13th century. There is a picture stone in its vicinity , which was dated to the period 400 to 600 AD. The dominant vortex wheel motif (a forerunner of the swastika ) is also interpreted as a sun symbol.

From 1900 the two artists William Blair Bruce and Carolina Benedicks-Bruce lived on the Brucebo country estate belonging to Väskinde . Both are buried in the Väskinde cemetery. Brucebo has been open as an artist museum since 2012.

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  Väskinde Church

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  Brucebo artist house

Individual evidence

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

literature

• Sigmund Oehrl: Gotland's picture stones. Problems and new ways of their documentation, reading and interpretation (=  Studia archaeologiae medii aevi.  3). Likias Verlag, Friedberg 2019, ISBN 978-3-9820130-1-5 .