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Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland

  • World heritages in Sweden
    • Laponia Area
    • Struve Geodetic Arc
    • Church Town of Gammelstad
    • High Coast
    • The Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland
    • Falun World Heritage
    • Engelsberg Ironworks
    • Birka and Hovgården
    • Drottningholm – Royal Domain
    • The Woodland Cemetery
    • Rock Carvings in Tanum
    • Hanseatic Town of Visby
    • Grimeton Radio Station
    • Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland
    • Naval City of Karlskrona

The Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland

The Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland consist of seven timber houses from the 19th century. They show how independent farmers who had accumulated wealth through forestry and flax production built new homes with special rooms or separate buildings designated for festivities. Today there are about 1000 of these farmhouses in Hälsingland

Hälsingegårdar was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2012

The Justification of the World Heritage Committee

The large, impressive farmhouses of Hälsingland, with there highly decorative rooms for festivities, reflect an extraordinary combination of timber building and folk art traditions, the wealth and social status of the independent farmers who built them, and the final flowering of a long cultural tradition in Häälsingland.

Links:

http://halsingegardar.se/in-english/

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1282

 

Photo: Jakob Dahlström

 

 

 

 

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