The Name
The municipality (originally the parish) was named after the old farm Hof (Norse Hof), since the first church was built on its ground. The name is identical with the word hof, "temple" (for the Norse gods).
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“There is the name and the thing; the name is a sound which sets a mark on and denotes the thing. The name is no part of the thing nor of the substance; it is an extraneous piece added to the thing, and outside of it.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)