Brekne

Brekne lies in the wooded country of Blekinge, where the Bräkne River runs south towards the Baltic coast. The district included the parish of Hoby, whose medieval church was built in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century. Its nave and cross arms formed an unusually elaborate plan for a Romanesque church in the region. Farms along the river and its tributaries belonged to a landscape that passed from Danish to Swedish rule in the seventeenth century.