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**It sometimes happens that enterprising people more or less characterize a local community. This is also very much the case in the area around Brandstorp, where the von Essen family has left a particularly clear mark. During the summers of his childhood, H…
It is not only the church of Brandstorp that is particularly valuable from a historical point of view, but a large part of this parish center has an interesting history. For a long time there was no church here, but in the 1620s a medieval timber chapel was…
Falcon's grave "Don't be in such a hurry, my friends, it won't happen until I get there!" the bound Jonas Falk is said to have shouted from the prison cart to the crowd that was on its way to the execution site at Svedmon to witness the beheading. He had al…
Begreppet Fossil åker används antikvariskt för att beskriva tidigare odlad mark som är varaktigt övergiven. I Västergötland består fossil åker mestadels av områden med röjningsrösen, det vill säga rösen som består av sten som man röjt bort från den mark man…
Habo church, about 5 km southwest of the village of Habo, is one of the country's most remarkable. It is an unusually grand rural church and it is richly decorated with paintings inside. Before the railway was built through the landscape here in the 1860s a…
From the time around the birth of Christ and about 600 years onwards, i.e. during the period known as the Roman Iron Age - Migration Period, it was common for graves to be marked with upright stones or stones arranged in circles such as squares or circles.…
Kvistrum sounds like an old name for a farm dating back to the Middle Ages, but the property you are standing on is named after Emanuel Larsson Qvist. He took a small piece of the Brandstorp parish common, built an earthen ball and cultivated four acres of…
The milestone, a help when writing the travel bill Sweden was by no means the first to use milestones. They existed in the Roman Empire and in Europe, Denmark introduced milestones in the 16th century. It was through the 1649 Gästgivarordningen that milesto…
Building near the shore is popular today, but if you look at where farmers placed their farms on the west side of Lake Vättern, you discover a different pattern. The better agricultural land was usually at a good distance from the shoreline, so they chose t…
Tar, an important commodity for the villages around Hökensås From the 16th century onwards, tar was one of Sweden's biggest export products. Most of it came from the eastern half of the country (Finland), but large quantities were also produced in pine-domi…
Hembygdsgården is located in the center of Habo and there are several interesting buildings. It also runs an active business with tours, parties, singing and music. The association also rents out the main building for parties and other gatherings. **The bui…
Högarp's village has not changed much since the 1816 land transfer. The five farms are located along a village street with each farm's pastures and farmland adjacent. The village has been restored to recreate its appearance from the early 1900s until 1950.…
Seven graves, perhaps one per generation, have been deliberately laid out to form a line of mighty monuments Sometime during the Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, i.e. around 1500 BC and up to a couple of centuries AD, a series of graves were built on a gently…
Högarp cultural reserve where HÖ6 and HÖ7 meet. Högarp's village has not changed much since the 1816 land transfer. The five farms are located along a village street with each farm's grazing and cultivation fields adjacent. The village has been restored to…
The country store still has its interior and some goods from the time before it closed in 1975. The frame saw from 1871 is driven by water wheels as in the past. The village environment includes, for example, a mill, circular saw and millstone foundry. In o…
