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The area includes farms and fields and a variegated flora and fauna, including Hornsjön, the island's largest lake. The coastline has cliffs, and the land has limestone areas interspersed with wetlands and hardwood forests, besides pastures and hay fields. The Skogsgärdesängen area is rich in orchids
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are the remains of a fortified medieval manor. The original village of Degerhorn was emptied out by Gustav Vasa and the farmers forced out in the 1550s; in its stead he built a model farm which also produced for the royal stores at a time when the entire island was a royal hunting domain.
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Horns Kungsgård was incorporated as a non-profit in 1979 and expanded in 2001, and is one of the protected areas of the
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in the 1550s. It was incorporated in 1971 and expanded in 2001, and became one of the protected areas of the
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The lake is also a habitat for bats; twelve of Sweden's eighteen bat species are found here, including
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hectares
acres
sq mi
visitoland.com/en/gora-pa-oland/horns-kungsgard-horns-crown-demesne/
Öland
Gustav Vasa
Natura 2000
Iron Age
Hornsjön
Natura 2000

Anacamptis pyramidalis
Gymnadenia conopsea
Dactylorhiza maculata
ospreys
Caspian terns
great crested grebes
Eurasian bitterns
Nathusius's pipistrelle
barbastelle
"Standard Data Form: Horns Kungsgård (SE0330063)"
Natura 2000
European Environment Agency




"Horns kungsgård (Horn's crown demesne)"
"Horns Kungsgård"
Fodor's Sweden

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