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Havetoftloit

district of Mittelangeln, Germany

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ545762
Source-derived summary

Havetoftloit (German pronunciation: [ˈhaːvətɔftˌlɔʏt]; Danish: Havetoftløjt) is a village and a former municipality in the Schleswig-Flensburg district, near the Baltic Sea in northern Germany. Since 1 March 2013, it is part of the municipality Mittelangeln.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Havetoftloit” is district of Mittelangeln, Germany. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Havetoftloit, district and Mittelangeln, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Havetoftloit, district and Mittelangeln is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “district of Mittelangeln, Germany” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q545762. VIAF identifies the subject as 145075761. Authority coordinates are 54.661, 9.559. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Havetoftloit”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Havetoftloit primary sources, Havetoftloit archive and Havetoftloit research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Havetoftloit”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Havetoftloit” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.