Varnhem

Sweden

Varnhem, a small village in Västra Götaland, is home to one of Sweden's most significant early medieval religious sites: a stone church dating to at least the 1040s, considered the oldest of its kind in Sweden outside Scania, alongside a Christian cemetery in use as far back as the late ninth century. The Cistercian order founded Varnhem Abbey here around 1150, and its abbey church remains in use today.

  • Population662
  • Nearest water from center0.2 km
  • Nearest mountain from center9.3 km

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