Västerhejde is a locality on the Swedish island of Gotland .
10-397: Västerhejde is also the name of the larger populated area, socken (not to be confused with parish ). It comprises the same area as the administrative Västerhejde District, established on 1 January 2016. Västerhejde is the name of the locality surrounding the medieval Västerhejde Church , sometimes referred to as Västerhejde kyrkby . It is also the name of the socken as well as
20-540: A socken church, it was governed by a socken council and it was the predecessor to modern municipalities In 1862, the kyrksockens ("church socken") and the sockenkommuns ("rural area locality") in Sweden were abolished as administrative areas during municipality reforms. The jordbrukssocken ("taxation area") remained in use until the Fastighetsdatareformen ("Reform for registration of real property") 1976–1995
30-505: Is a traditional area with frozen borders, in Sweden typically identical to those of the early 20th century rural parishes. The socken also served as a registration unit for buildings, in Sweden recently replaced by identical districts as registration unit. A socken consists of several villages and industry localities ( company towns ), and is typically named after the main village and the original church. Socken, in old Swedish sokn (compare: Danish and bokmål sogn , nynorsk sokn )
40-526: Is also the name of the high cliff with an almost vertical 48 m (157 ft) drop down to the sea. There are several small caves in the steep cliff side. One of the asteroids in the asteroid belt , 10554 Västerhejde , is named after this place. This article about a location in Gotland County , Sweden is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Socken Socken ( Swedish: [ˈsʊ̌kːɛn] or [ˈsɔ̌kːɛn] )
50-516: Is an archaic name for the original country church parishes, kyrksocken . It also describes a secular area, a sockenkommun ("rural area locality") or a taxation area, a jordbokssocken . In the Nordic countries a socken was an administrative area consisting of several villages or localities in much the same way as the civil parishes in England , but the concept is not used in reference to towns. A socken had
60-626: Is the Swedish government agency operating under the Ministry of Finance and responsible for producing official statistics for decision-making, debate and research. The agency's responsibilities include: National statistics in Sweden date back to 1686 when the parishes of the Church of Sweden were ordered to start keeping records on the population. SCB's predecessor, the Tabellverket ("office for tabulation"),
70-618: Is the name used for a part of a county in Sweden. In Denmark similar areas are known as sogn , in Norway sokn or sogn and in Finland pitäjä (socken) . A socken is an rural area formed around a church, typically in the Middle Ages. A socken originally served as a parish . Later it also served as a civil parish or an administrative parish , and became a predecessor to today's municipalities of Sweden , Finland , Norway and Denmark . Today it
80-508: The district. Västerhejde is located along the coast in the mid-west part of Gotland. As of 2019, Västerhejde Church belongs to Stenkumla parish , along with the churches in Stenkumla , Träkumla and Vibble . Located within Västerhejde socken are Vibble , Bjärs , Nygårds fishing village with an adjacent manor and sheep farm, as well as Högklint , a small settlement by the coast. Högklint
90-540: The term socken is no longer used administratively in Sweden, it is still used for cataloging and registering historical archives ( Swedish National Heritage Board ), botany , dialect research, toponymy and by local historical societies. Socken is a convenient parameter for these purposes since it does not change with time. Statistics Sweden Statistics Sweden ( Swedish : Statistiska centralbyrån [staˈtɪ̌sːtɪska sɛnˈtrɑ̂ːlˌbyːrɔn] ; SCB , lit. ' Central Bureau of Statistics ' )
100-477: Was complete. No further alterations to the sockens was made after this. On 1 January 2016, a new administrative division and area for statistics , registration districts or simply districts, was introduced in Sweden. Geographically, the districts correspond with the parishes of the Church of Sweden as of 31 December 1999. About 85% of the old sockens corresponds with the new districts. Even though
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