När

Place in Gotland, Sweden

57°15′N 18°35′E / 57.250°N 18.583°E / 57.250; 18.583CountrySwedenProvinceGotlandCountyGotland CountyMunicipalityGotland MunicipalityArea

^[1]

• Total0.75 km² (0.29 sq mi)Population

(2014)^[2]

• Total413Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

När is a populated area, a socken (not to be confused with parish), on the Swedish island of Gotland, with 413 inhabitants in 2014.^[2]^[3] It comprises the same area as the administrative När District, established on 1 January 2016.^[4]

The När Lighthouse is located east of the village on Närsholmen.

Geography

När is the name of the socken as well as the district. It is also the name of the small village surrounding the medieval När Church,^[5] sometimes referred to as När kyrkby. It is situated on the east coast of Gotland.^[6]

As of 2019^[update], När Church belongs to När-Lau parish in Burs pastorat, along with the church in Lau.^[7]^[8]

Notable people

Henrik Munthe (1860 in När – 1958) geologist, particularly the Geology of Gotland
Josefin Nilsson (1969 in När – 2016) singer and actress ^[9]

References

^ "Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km² 2000 och 2005" (xls) (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. Retrieved 2009-04-18.
^ ^a ^b "Gotland i siffror 2015" [Gotland in numbers 2015]. www.gotland.se. Gotland Municipality. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
^ The exact extent of the socken, now district, can be obtained by clicking on Kartinställningar and check the Socken box in the menu of this map from the Swedish National Heritage Board database.
^ "Förordning om district" [Regulation of districts] (PDF). Ministry of Finance. 17 June 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 September 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
^ Lagerlöf, Erland; Svahnström, Gunnar (1973). Gotlands kyrkor [Gotland's Churches] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren. pp. 218–219. ISBN 91-29-41035-5. SELIBR 7232718.
^ "När". www.ne.se. Nationalencyklopedin. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
^ "Församlingar på Gotland". www.svenskakyrkan.se. Church of Sweden. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
^ "Visby stifts indelning 2018". www.svenskakyrkan.se. Church of Sweden. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
^ IMDb Database retrieved 4 January 2019