Götaland
Scania
Simrishamn Municipality

Hammenhög

Hammenhög is a locality situated in , , with 908 inhabitants in 2010. The village is named after a Bronze-Age grave, the first part of the name, Hammen-, refers to a person named Haming or Hamund, the second part, -hög, from the Old Norse word Haugr, means mound or barrow.
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  • Type: Village with 879 residents
  • Description: urban area in Simrishamn Municipality, Sweden
  • Also known as: “Hammenhoeg”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hammenhög Church and Hammenhögs tingshus.

Church
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Building
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is a building.

Castle
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is a castle in , , in southern . The castle is mentioned in the 14th-century, and was originally a fortress surrounded by a moat, owned by the Drefelt family. is situated 3½ km northeast of Hammenhög.

Hammenhög

Latitude
55.50325° or 55° 30′ 12″ north
Longitude
14.15214° or 14° 9′ 8″ east
Population
879
Elevation
62 metres (203 feet)
Open location code
9F7PG532+7V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 461178745
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2708136
Wiki­data ID
Q2428380
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Turkish—“Hammenhög” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Hammenhög”
  • Chinese: “Hammenhög”
  • Danish: “Hammenhög”
  • Dutch: “Hammenhög”
  • Faroese: “Hammenhög”
  • Finnish: “Hammenhög”
  • French: “Hammenhög”
  • German: “Hammenhög”
  • Irish: “Hammenhög”
  • Italian: “Hammenhög”
  • Ladin: “Hammenhög”
  • Latin: “Collis Hamundi”
  • Latvian: “Hamenhoga”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hammenhög”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hammenhög”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hammenhög”
  • Norwegian: “Hammenhög”
  • Norwegian: “Hammenhøg”
  • Polish: “Hammenhög”
  • Portuguese: “Hammenhög”
  • Russian: “Хамменхёг”
  • Slovenian: “Hammenhög”
  • Spanish: “Hammenhög”
  • Swedish: “Hammenhög”
  • Turkish: “Hammenhög”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Hammenhög”. Photo: Sundström, CC BY 3.0.