Pinnapå: Kärleksallén och Gamla tingshuset

“Courtship avenue” If you look towards the Apladalen park, you will see the “Courtship Avenue” or Tånnögatan as it is called. This is where lovesick young people walked hand in hand beneath the leafy sycamores. Tånnögatan was the old southern approach to central Värnamo.

Old courthouse The old courthouse for all of the Finnveden district was located at the square Gästisplan. It burned down in 1835, and the red wooden building became the new courthouse for Västbo and Östbo hundreds. Inmates had to go down to the cellar through a metal trapdoor in the floor. It is said that several people who were locked in there were “forgotten”. Outside the courthouse was a pillory where severe punishments were administered. Offenders could be sentenced to public flagellation with a whip or rod.