Klintehamn

Klintehamn is a place ( tätort ) on the Swedish island of Gotland in the province of Gotland County and the historical province of Gotland.

The village in the municipality of Gotland is located on the west coast of the island, about 32 km south of Visby.

The old port space is adjacent to the former pirate nest of Vitalienbrüder. He experienced an upturn main port of the island until the end of the 18th century, when he which links to Öland ( Gaxa / Boda ) and the mainland produced and the dealer Georg Matthias and Jacob Niclas thunder settled here and a shipping company and a shipyard erected. Warfsholm is every summer venue of the festival " Music by the Sea ".

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Near the village are located on the headland Vivesholm the remains of the castle Klinteholm, which was known as the Land crown. It was built by Albert of Mecklenburg's son, Erich 1394 and already in 1398 destroyed in driving the Vitalienbrüder by the Teutonic Order again. North of Klintehamn the fishermen instead of Kovik lies with a Fishing Museum and at Rannarve the four arranged in a row Bronze Age ship -setting in Rannarve.