Stenegård, a Hälsingegård in Järvsö, Sweden

Kort svensk video med utsikt över Järvsö Kyrka, samt bilder och vyer i den engelska videon

Kort svensk video ifrån utanför Stenegård. Den engelska videon nedan mer om Stenegård och utsikten därifrån, samt landsbygden utanför och lite andra vyer, samt engelska med värmeslag.

English video from Järsvö, Stenegård and the road back to Ljusdal on the east side of The river of light, Ljusnan. (On Swebbtube here)

Stenegård is one of 7 Hälsingegårdar, big wooden not-mansions (there was no aristocracy in this part of Sweden, just powerful forest farmers) who had timber to build great villas, plenty of wealth and skilled craftsmen. “Wealthy rural population” (They were wealthy because they were hard to tax…) as the newly started local paper Ljusdalsposten wrote 120 years ago until the big government ideas from 1971 and onwards destroyed the prosperity in much of rural northern Sweden.

Järsvö Kyrka (Wading-Island Church) taken from 61°42'41.8"N 16°10'58.1"E

A similar view from the tapestry on the wall behind me.

Järsvö Kyrka from the railroad to the south.

Järsvö Kyrka from Stenegård (“Stony ranch/homestead/estate”), and a Midsummer pole. The Alpine slopes Järvsöbacken in the background.

Ljusdal Church to compare

Järsvö-klacken (The Järvsö Heel ~= peak/mountain) and a very Swedish cow statue

A house in Järvsö

I got a traditional chair at Stenegård in appropriate size.

Järvsö Church from the south… If you know something about churches, you see what’s odd: The people sitting in the church are facing the tower to the north, not east. Ljusdal church is facing almost east as almost normal.

That peak should be Hyboklacken on the way to Järvsö and Järvsöklacken… They look the same, but we can see Hyboklacken from Ljusdal from the other side.

Hälsingehambon is an event where they dance across the region. Think of it like Tour de France, but people dancing across the land in traditional clothes during the day.