Abild () is a village and parish in
Falkenberg Municipality
Falkenberg Municipality () is a municipality in Halland County on the Swedish west coast. The town Falkenberg is the municipal seat.
The municipality was created in 1971 when the ''City of Falkenberg'' was amalgamated with six rural municipalit ...
,
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
. The parish is a part of
Slöinge
Slöinge is a locality situated in Falkenberg Municipality, Halland County, Sweden, with 950 inhabitants in 2010.
Archeological excavations has revealed a chieftain estate from the 8th century; among the remains is a large number of golden figure ...
rectory
A clergy house is the residence, or former residence, of one or more priests or ministers of a given religion, serving as both a home and a base for the occupant's ministry. Residences of this type can have a variety of names, such as manse, p ...
. Abild is first mentioned in writing in 1431, it was then written ''Apulde''. The origin of the name is probably the old
Halland
Halland () is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden (''landskap''), on the western coast of Götaland, southern Sweden. It borders Västergötland, Småland, Skåne, Scania and the sea of Kattegat. Until 1645 and the Second Treaty of Br ...
ic word for wild apples, '.
is located within the parish.
Geography
Suseån
Suseån is a river in Sweden
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, a small river, flows through the eastern parts of the parish. A lake, ''Mossjön'', can be found in the central parts.
History
No stone age graves has been found. Some other remains, such as flint axes have however been found. There are some finds from the
Roman Iron Age
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roughly corresponding to the territories of modern Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Northern Germany, Poland, the Net ...
and the
migration period
The Migration Period ( 300 to 600 AD), also known as the Barbarian Invasions, was a period in European history marked by large-scale migrations that saw the fall of the Western Roman Empire and subsequent settlement of its former territories ...
, the most spectacular being an 18 gram golden ring.
The oldest parts of the church was built in the 12th and 13th century. It is said to previously have had the name ''"Sankt Johannes kyrka"'' (''Saint John's church'') after
John the Baptist
John the Baptist ( – ) was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early first century AD. He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy, John the Immerser in some Baptist ...
. Most of the inventories are from the 17th century, during which the church was prolonged to the east. The church was painted in 1767. These paintings were later covered by new paintings, until they were restored in 1953. The church has been refurbished in 1927 and 1998.
Within the church
tombs
A tomb ( ''tumbos'') or sepulchre () is a repository for the remains of the dead. It is generally any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes. Placing a corpse into a tomb can be called ''immurement'', althou ...
can be found, where members of the noble families
Thott and
Lilliehöök are buried.
Infrastructure
County road 150 pass through the parish in an east-west direction. Some smaller roads pass through the parish as wells. These roads do to a large extent follow old trade route, given the name
Via Regia
The Via Regia (Royal Highway) is a European Cultural Route following the route of the Historic roads, historic road of the Middle Ages. There were many such ''viae regiae'' associated with the king in the medieval Holy Roman Empire.
History ...
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References
Sources
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Fotnoter
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Falkenberg Municipality