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Medieval church way (violett track on the map)

1. This is the oldest preserved way in Östra Ämtervik towards the church from the east. It is partly from the Middle Ages. A northern part connects west of Mosserud.

2. On this way you can see the so called „Kiststenen“ (coffin stone). Here the pallbearers used to rest with the coffin on the way to the church. .

3. Kvarnfalla. Here was a medieval village which disappeared related with the Black Death.

4. In the slope of Brattberget you see the so called Steklamma. This is a very old mountain cutting. In former times the people made fire on the mountain to heat the stone and then they poured water on it so that the mountain cracked.

5. Further to the west on Brattberget is „Gôbbsil“, today a little groundless moor, but in the 18th century a smaller lake. To this „Tjesgôbben“ came riding early in the Christmas morning. He had sat down in Gunnerud and had drunk the whole Christmas night. He took the old way. A new way was built further to the south in the 17th century. In his fullness he rode away the track into the groundless lake where he and his horse died. Because he was drunken in the Christmas night he had to remain there on the ground. There he still lies today. It is told that he appeared as a ghost for some carriages. If one unharnessed the horse and looked through the loop of the horse bite he got visible disappearing towards the lake.

6. Coming down on the west side of Brattberget one first comes to Slätta. Due to the sandy soil potatoes was cultivated here in the 19th century. Slätta is also a watershed between the brooks Barnbäcken and Backbäcken. Here the wood from the forest came for further transport to lake Fryken.

7. Here goes the way to Nytorp. The rests of a croft you can find about 300 m to the north. To the croft some small fields belonged. The people who lived here had two cows. At last Hilda Nyström or „Hilda i Nytorp“ how she was called lived here. She was a pleasant and wise woman. The farmers used to engage her if a cow had it hard to calve. Today only the rests of the house base, a collapsed soil cellar and a stone wall are still to be seen.

8. Rests of a smithy which was used by the farms in Södra and Norra Gunnerudstorp. Here a forge, anvil, vice, handrunning borring mashine and different tools were found.

9. Fire store. A long time ago every village had a fire engine which was pumped by two men. Later the fire store was built which was used by the whole parish. At a fire alarm a telephone alarm system worked or a messenger was sent to those who were working in the fire brigade. In the store was all equipment for fire extinction, fire engine included.

10. Där Ner i Gunnerudstorp. In the 1850ties here P. G. A. Lidback, philosopher and community improver, lived. Among others he wanted to interpret the bible to more modern swedish and wrote an own version. He wrote also sermons, poems and others. All this and some pesonal things he laid in a trunk which he handed over to the church in Östra Ämtervik where it still is. In „Gösta Berlings saga“ you can read about „Uncle Eberhard“ which was one of the cavaliers in Ekeby.

11. Barnbäcken. In the 1920ties here was a dance floor. Among the major events the sibblings Häck, gypsies from Kil, could be counted on. They drove with horse and carriage to play for dance and stayed here in a tent for some days. This was even here where two troublemakers from the parish became enemies. During the following fight one of them got his finger bitten off.
Barnbäcken (child’s brook) seems to got its name due to that some children got drowned or that chidren were drowned here to counter act the Black Death. But this were mostly only ideas to scare younger children.

12. Forsen or Kristinefors. Something which is not very known in Sweden is, that many of the country’s lighthouse builders came from this parish. In Forsen lived August Edkvist. He built many of the lighthouses along the west coast. His sister was a modiste and sold clothes in this house. At this time a veranda was facing the wall. To the right of the veranda was the kitchen window and to the left a shop-window.

13. Exchange. The house is so called due to that here the telephone exchange was on the upper floor untill 1963. In Prästbol the way connects to the pilgrim’s way towards the church.

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