The old graveyard, Ljungby

A walk through the old cemetery in Ljungby offers a piece of Ljungby history. The cemetery surrounded Ljungby’s medieval church, the construction year of which cannot be precisely determined. The old church was demolished in 1859, and the current church was built nearby in 1858-59. It was inaugurated in 1861.

The vegetation in the cemetery is characterized by the maples in the tree circle, beeches, weeping ashes, which symbolize mourning trees, and hawthorn trees lining the paths that cross the cemetery like a cross.

In the center of the cemetery, where the crossing paths meet, there is a memorial monument in the form of a granite obelisk erected in honor of Ljungby’s great benefactor, Märta Ljungberg (1656-1741), and her husband. Both were buried inside the previous church, and today the approximate location of their graves is known. Märta Ljungberg bequeathed large estates to Ljungby’s poor and for an altarpiece in Ljungby church.

Gravestones

Inscriptions on the gravestones remind us of families that played a significant role in the town’s development during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The gravestones date from the 1820s to the present day. Many of the cemetery’s gravestones are framed with stone borders. Several of them are gravel-covered. There are also a small number of gravestones enclosed with cast iron fences, wrought iron fences, or trimmed hedges.

The oldest stone in the cemetery is from 1828 and consists of a tall red granite stone with a rough-hewn appearance. The text on the stone is filled in with black paint.

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