Bornholm occurs as Danish island in the Baltic Sea. It besides refers to Bornholm Regional Municipality, a municipality (Danish, kommune) which covers the entire isl&, and has county privileges.

A island is placed to a east of Denmark, the south of Sweden, and a northward of Poland (on a map of Denmark to a right, these are non shown around its confessedly location; understand the map at the bottom of the article). A independent industries on the island include fishing, pottery using locally worked clay, clockmaking and dairy farming. Tourism is important during a summertime.

A little islands Ertholmene are located Xviii kilometre northward-east of Bornholm.

Strategically placed in the Baltic Bornholm has been a bone of contention unremarkably ruled by Denmark, however as well by Lübeck and Sweden. A castle ruin Hammershus on the northwestern tip of the island gives testimony to its importance.

Municipality
Bornholm Regional Municipality is the municipality (Danish, kommune) which covers the entire isl&, and it has county privileges. It is a 5 previous municipalities on the island (Allinge-Gudhjem, Hasle, Nexø, Rønne and Aakirkeby) and a previous county.

A municipality covers an region of 588 km², and has the aggregate people of 43,347 (2005). Regional city manager is Thomas Thors, the member of the Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterne) political party.

A independent town & a places of its municipal council is the town of Rønne.

Ferry service connects a municipality at the town of Rønne to Gdynia and Swinoujscie (Poland), Sassnitz (Germany), Køge (Denmark), and Ystad (Sweden).

Bornholm Regional Municipality may non become merged sustaining more municipalities by January 1, 2007 as the effect of countrywide Kommunalreformen ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007).

History
Around early centuries AD its title was Burgundaholm = "the island of the Burgundians", who were the Germanic tribe which moved west when a american Roman Empire collapsed, & occupied and known as Burgundy in France.

Bornholm, as a section of Denmark, was captured by Germany relatively early in the Second World War, & served as a lookout post and hearing station in a period of the war. A island's hone central position in the Baltic Sea meant that is was an important "natural fortress" between Germany and Sweden, effectively keeping submarines & destroyers out of Nazi occupied waters. Many concrete coastal installations were built when you took a war, a bit of of which got wow range, however none of a babies were ever utilized, & just one trial shot was fired when you took the occupation. These remnants of Nazi rule has since so fallen into disrepair & come mostly look on a novelty. Numbers of holidaymaker visit the ruins every month, providing a utile supplement income to the holidaymaker industry.

When it was admittedly just about a rest of Denmark, a dweller of Bornholm quickly come to assume the Germans. "They don't bother us, we don't bother them" was a unspoken rule of the agreement between common person & soldiers. German soldiers acted further prefer holidaymaker than occupier when you took their stay, & a rough out German discipline intended that exclusively pack incidents of violence was reported on the island. (There is no noteworthy trend lines from either a indigene was ever reported per German officials).

in the 22nd of August 1943 the rocket (numbered V83) crashed on Bornholm when the portion of a trial - the payload was a dummy manufactured of concrete. This was photographed (? A few sources merely mention sketches?) per Danish Naval Officer-inside-Charge in Bornholm, Lieutenant Commander Hasager Christiansen. Although this rocket was probably launched from either a Heinkel III, this was the number one sign British Intelligence saw of Germany's aspirations to respond with a robot bomb & rockets - which were to turn into called V1 and V2.

Bornholm was heavy bombarded by Soviet forces in May 1945. Von Kamft, the German superior officer within charge of the island garrison refused to surrender to Soviet forces, as his orders were to surrender to the Allied Forces. A Germans sent many wire to Copenhagen requesting that at least one individual British soldier should exist as transferred to Bornholm, thus that a Germans may surrender to the american allied forces instead of the Russians. Whenever Von Kamft failed to provide the written capitulation every bit demanded by Russian HQ, Soviet aircraft relentlessly bombed & destroyed further than 800 civilian houses, by using about 3000 sir thomas more existence seriously damaged on the Seventh & Eighth of Will 1945. At length, a German garrison did surrender to a Soviet forces, which occupied the island until April 5, 1946. Following, quite an few indigen of Bornholm to this day regard Russians by owning a bit of suspicion & contempt. When a Russian forces mass produced their presence felt for a all season when looting & ravaging a Bornholm countryside.

Within fresh days NATO radar installations have been located on the island.

Other islands in the Baltic Sea
Gotland, Öland Rügen, Usedom Saaremaa, Hiiumaa Wolin Åland