Kulturreservatet Stensjö by

Come and enjoy Stensjö village, Kalmar County's first cultural reserve. Here in the village you can, among other things, walk in the old cultural landscape around the undivided village with buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries. The cluster of red-painted houses is in turn located in a bright, open landscape, with winding narrow gravel roads and kilometers of fences.

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Stensjö by transports you far back in time to a landscape that has been created by haymaking and grazing over the centuries and is still managed, in part, in the traditional way. Sheep, cows and pigs live in the pastures. Chickens also roam freely in the village. The environment is also recognizable from Astrid Lindgren's films about the Children in the Noisy Village, as several scenes are shot directly in the village or on the roads around the village.

The village of Stensjö is first mentioned in writing in 1351 - Stenzöö, "the rocky island". The name is explained by looking at what the landscape looked like before streams and other watercourses were drained to make way for farmland. The oldest map of Stensjö dates from 1709. The whole of Stensjö was then owned by Wendela Hammarskjöld and farmed by a tenant farmer. When the major land transfer was carried out in 1815-1816, there were five owners, but the transfer led to a dispute, which was the reason why the next reform, the 1850 legal transfer, was not carried out here. Thanks to this, all the farms remained in the village instead of being moved out.

Hiking in Stensjö village

It is also possible to walk three different marked hiking trails around the cultural landscape to further take in the beautiful surroundings: Viråslingan (1.3 km), Ängsslingan (1.3 km), Skogsslingan (2.9 km), Madslingan (1.8 km), Mörkeviksslingan (1.3 km). The East Coast Trail also runs through the village.

Tilias café in Stensiögården

Tilia's café is located in Stensjö village. The café is located in Stensiögården and is named after Tilia, who lived in the farm around the turn of the century 1900. Tilia used to hold coffee parties for her friends at Stensiögården.

Tilia's café is open all year round and offers seasonal offerings for you as a guest. Take the opportunity to visit with family and friends for a good coffee or snack.

Click here for current opening hours

Travel with Kalmar county traffic

In the cultural reserve there is a limited amount of parking spaces. Therefore, we would like you to choose to travel here sustainably with Kalmar county traffic. The Ängelstorp stop is regularly served by bus 160 and to the Stensjö by vsk stop, bus 47 and local traffic operate. Local traffic must be ordered in advance from Kalmar länstrafik.

From both stops, it is about a two-kilometer walk to the center of Stensjö village.

Search for your journey and buy a ticket on Kalmar länstrafik's website www.kalmarlanstrafik.se

To think about

Stensjö village is open all year round at all times of the day. There is a road to the village parking lot. The terrain in the village is gravel roads and paths where strollers and wheelchairs are referred to the gravel roads. Toilets with changing tables and extra space are available at the parking lot. Around the village there are also buildings with a key symbol, these buildings are like small museums. Learn more about the history of the village or how to take care of the farm in all seasons.

When the café in Stensjö village is not open, the area is just as brilliant a destination for those who want to bring their own picnic basket for a nature-oriented coffee break in the Småland countryside. There are plenty of picnic benches placed around the area around and in the village.

It is forbidden to:

• Park motor vehicles, motor homes, caravans or trailers other than in designated parking areas.
• Cycling outside gravel roads.
• Camping in fenced pastures.
• Bring dogs or other pets that are not leashed.
• Make fires other than in specially designated places.
• Damage or cause damage to living or dead trees and bushes.
• Deliberately disturbing domestic and wild animals.

Without the permission of the County Administrative Board, it is forbidden to:

• Put up signs, trail markers, markers or similar devices.
• Organize competitions or other organized events.
• Collect mosses, lichens or woody fungi.
• digging or pulling up vascular plants
• Collecting insects or other invertebrates with traps that kill.
• Using drones.

The cultural reserve Stensjö by is managed by Kungl. Vitterhetsakademien

Stensjö by in social media

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