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There has been a church on this site since as early as the 12th century. The original wooden church was destroyed after catching fire in 1890. A Gothic church in Nordic style was built in its place and was dedicated on 22 April 1894. At that time, the parish of Undenäs was quite extensive so the church was constructed to accommodate a congregation of around a thousand people.
The church was built in the style of a cathedral with rows of granite columns to separate the aisles, Gothic arches and high windows. It is often referred to as "the cathedral of Tiveden".
Population trends gradually shifted and the church underwent restoration work in 1938 and 1985 to adapt it to present-day needs and requirements.
Just to the north-west of the church in the cemetery lies an altar alongside a hedge where the original church used to stand. Beside the altar, Constantia, daughter of the Swedish King Erik XIV, and her husband Carl Frankelin are buried. The northern gallery inside the church houses a small museum. Here you can see items that were excavated in 1948 from the site of the original church, for example, a moonstone pearl that may have been owned by Constantia and the oldest remaining tombstone belonging to Måns Joenson of Svanvik who died in 1598.
At Överby, you will find the biggest and most impressive stone circle in the district. It dates from the Iron Age and consists of nine big stones set in a ring. Just east of the stone circle there used to stand four upright boulders. Only one of these is left today. These ancient remains make a pretty sight on the slopes leading down from the church.
High up on Källebacken hill is the folk museum from where there is a beautiful view over Lake Viken with the mountains, Billingen and Kinnekulle, in the background. Here you can find Granathstugan, a reconstructed soldier's croft, as well as the local folk museum, an open-air theatre, a charcoal-burner's cottage and many other buildings. These are run by the local culture preservation association. In the summer, coffee and snacks are available and the association also organises a market and a traditional local fair the weekend before midsummer.
Källebacken also boasts a holiday village providing ski pistes and rambling routes varying in length (2.5-14 km). A signposted path leads up to Grotteberget which affords an even more breathtaking view over the neighbourhood. There is also a footpath from Källebacken leading onto the major hiking route of Västra Vätterleden.
Strålestugan is an old chip-covered cottage with a grass roof and leaded windows. It is a testimony to the buildings of yesterday in this district. The house inherited its name from Frans Oskar Stråle who was the last person to live in the cottage. The local Stråle family of Sjöared had through intermarriage become the landed gentry of the district, having bought up properties formerly owned by Erik XIV's daughter, Constantia Eriksdotter. However, with the death of Frans Oskar in 1933, the Stråle family died out.
Undenäs culture association houses a small part of its collections in Strålestugan.
5. NÄS
BURIAL
GROUND
There is little evidence in Undenäs of human activity during the Bronze Age but it is highly likely that people were living here and in the neighbouring villages during that time (3000 – 500 BC). The burial ground in Näs probably dates from the latter part of the Bronze Age. It is located beside the road leading to the Näs pier and consists of a stone circle, a vertical slab and five stone pavings. The stone circle was a grave consisting of six vertical stones and one horizontal stone forming the outline of a ship. It is approximately 10 m long and 4 m wide. There are also two stones lying flat on the burial ground that may possibly have once stood upright.
Approximately 500 m south of the remains of the stone ship lies a burial ground at Rosenvik dating from the latter part of the Iron Age (500 BC- 400 AD). It consists of 15 ancient stones and pavings in circular, quadrangular or rectangular form. The graves are only partly visible. There is also a burial ground on the island of Näsboön in Viken just near Rosenvik.
6.
BLEKMANSBERGET ANCIENT FORT
The end of the Iron Age witnessed turbulent times for the local people. Civil unrest between the "Svear" of central Sweden and the "Göter" of southern Sweden probably gave rise to the construction of the ancient fort at Blekmansberget.
The fort was probably used to provide local people from both Näs and surrounding areas with temporary shelter from the battles. The ancient fort is located on a ridge with sheer mountains to the north and two stone embankments where the terrain is less steep.
Sannum farm is in fact an old manor. Its history and ownership can be traced back to the Middle Ages. In the past, the farm was owned by some of the most important aristocratic families in Sweden. When excavation work began in the early 1990s, the remains of a defence fort were discovered dating back to around 1300. At this time, Sannum was owned by a powerful bishop by the name of Brynolf Algotsson of Skara.
At Sannums Grindstuga you will find a stone circle consisting of 5 stones.
There is a wolf pit on the old road from Undenäs to Flugebyn which is two metres in depth.
Here you will find an unusual forest with seventeen different species of coniferous tree. In 1887, the Göta Kanal Company carried out an experiment during which 27 different species of coniferous tree from various parts of the world were planted. Today, 17 species remain, including Chinese fir, black spruce, white spruce, Douglas fir, cedar, cascade spruce and balsam fir.
The Sätra Works, earlier called the Fredriksfors Works, received permission to develop the land in 1739. Jöns Koch was then permitted to install equipment to produce iron bars by means of a furnace with two hearths. Production stopped in 1895. For half a century after that, wood products were manufactured at two mechanical pulp mills using spruce and aspen trees from the forest. The sawmill continued its operations until 1986.
In past times, an industrial railway ran as far as the pier at Lake Viken where steam ships used to dock.
The country manor was probably built around 1795 and originally had two grand wings. Nowadays, the Sätra Works has three main areas of activity: forestry, conferences and hydroelectric power. There is also a youth hostel in the village as well as a network of footpaths running from Sätra to places of interest in the neighbourhood.
All along the river in Edsån you can find open-air wooden shelters with facilities for making a fire.
In front of the manor building, you can see the original plantation of aspen trees. Beech trees are also native to Sätra.
Hovet is located on the heights, north of Lake Viken. This ancient, cultivated landscape is still used as pastoral land. It is a place of great natural beauty and resources and is also of cultural and historical importance. It is home to one of the northernmost beech forests in Sweden. Many of the beeches here date back centuries and are immense in size.
Hovet farm was first mentioned in 1571 but probably dates from medieval times. At the end of the 17th century, the Stråle family of Sjöared built two manor houses here.
From Hovet there are several signposted footpaths which link up with Hökaberget and the Sätra Works.
Hökaberget is located just to the south of Hovet. From here there is a panoramic view over Lake Viken with the Kinnekulle and Billingen mountains in the background. On the south side of Hökaberget, there is a natural cave at the foot of the mountain while on its heights some areas of the forest date back to ancient times.
Hökaberget can be reached via signposted footpaths from both Sätra and Hovet.
The history of Edet is related to the streams, that dewater the lake Unden. The farm is mentioned first time in script in 1447, but has before then belonged to the abbey in Vadstena. Here have been mill and saw. The current mill building, that also contains a bone mill, is an historical monument. When the building is open you can see, how the seed was ground to flours and how bones were crushed to bone flours, that was used to manure. All is running by a water turbine.
The farm building of Edet was built in 1810 after that the farm was bought by Göta channel company. Through the dam at Edet, the water flow is regulated to the lake Viken and thereby also to the west part of Göta channel.
There has been an industrial railway between Edet and the lake Viken. In Edsån planted, red water roses are growing.
This impressing toothache pine has a circumference of just over 3 m. It's now dead and parched. In old times, people put in sticks and splinters in the bark in order to become remedied from ache.
Next to Lindberga village there is a hill, where the mountain ground is visible. The mountain shows volcanic structures, among other thing remnants after running lava.
The hill is grazed. It's a beautiful element in the open landscape near the village. The hill is a nature reserve.
From 1137 to 1826 existed at Skaga a stave church built of upright standing split fire logs (staves). In 1960 a reconstructed stave church was built reminding the old one. This was totally destroyed in a fire at the New Year weekend 2000. The church has then been rebuilt. The bell tower, that was not hit of the fire, has three bells. The small bell has originally belonged to the oldest church in Skaga.
On the church yard is a holy victim well. There are lots of legends about the old victim church.
Just near the church, Skagagården is located. It belongs to Undenäs parish and is used for courses, conferences and education of candidates for confirmation.
Hulta hage is a little deciduous forest with hazel and a rich flora.
The slope that goes from Hulta hage and down to the main road constitutes limit for the upper marine boundary. Here is Högsätet with two stone circles, each consisting of nine small stones.
The farms in the village Svanhult lies highly in an open cultivated landscape with a tremendous view out over the lake Unden. Along the shores of Unden are beautiful deciduous forests, hazel groves and pastures with a rich flora. Here among other thing ivy is growing on its northernmost place in the inland of Sweden. At the shore also is a small meadow, that still is used on an old way with hay cutting with scythe and trimming the trees.
19.
CHOLERA CEMETERY AT FORSVIK
Two kilometers north if Forsvik lies a cemetery, that was built when a cholera epidemic hit Forsvik in 1866. On the place, a memory stone stands.
The church of Forsvik was built in 1934. It's built in wood after a prototype of the old church in Undenäs, that burned down in 1890. In the church, a model of a ship hangs, that imagines Axel Broström's first ship, the ketch Mathilda. Salvaged, shipwrecked sailors often donated such models of their ship to the church.
21. THE INDUSTRY MONUMENT OF FORSVIK
Forsvik is located at the outlet from lake Viken to lake Bottensjön. The development of Forsvik began, when Vadstena abbey in 1410 got part in the farm of Forsvik. During the middle ages here was a saw, flour mill and water hammers. Anton von Boij in 1686 got privilege to build a bar iron agency with two hammers and four hearths. In the middle of the 1800s the iron production was replaced with a foundry, mechanical workshop, mechanical pulp mill and sawmill. These activities gradually has been ceased during the 1900s.
Today, Forsvik is a alive industrial monument worth seeing. It also is used for some university courses. The first weekend after midsummer the association old Forsvik arranges special activity days.
The wandering path Västra Vätterleden passes Forsvik.
Göta channel is the biggest building structure of Sweden. It runs between Sjötorp at lake Vänern and Mem at the Baltic See. The channel is totally 190 km, of which 87 km are dug channel. In the Undenäs district it passes through the lakes Viken and Bottensjön to the lake Vättern. The lake Viken is the highest part of the channel (92 m over the see surface).
The west part of the channel was built during the years 1810-1822. In October 1813 the first sluice of the channel was initialized in Forsvik. It was given the name Carl XIII's sluss after the king. It has the biggest level difference of all sluices along Göta channel - 3,30 m. Over the sluice is a double flapper bridge of cast iron of the same age as the sluice. Probably it's the oldest iron bridge of this kind in Sweden.
In the east part of lake Viken is Kiddö wall. It's built for pulling the sail boats along the channel at lack on wind. In the same intention, there are roads for pulling along big parts of the dug channel, for example at Forsvik.
Thousands of pleasure boats are passing Göta channel every year. The channel is also used for canoe trip with possible connections to adjacent lake system as lake Unden via Edsån. Old, wellknown tourist ships do regular trips on the channel between Stockholm and Gothenburg. The passage over the lake Viken is famed to be the most beautiful along the channel. This passage also is particularly popular for day trips. Many local tourist ships do daily trips during the tourist season. There is a bike road along the channel and to showplaces in the environments. It follows mostly the pulling roads along the channel, which are free of car traffic.
The wandering path Västra Vätterleden passes the channel area in Forsvik. Here are nice walk paths, too, partly following the old pulling roads along the channel.
Bölskullen is one of the most interesting areas in Sweden for geologic studies of development of the Baltic See at the melting of the inland ice. It is an hill with flat crest, 26 m over the surrounding flat plateau. The hill and the surrounding plateau are edified of ice river materials, built up to various shore line levels in the earlier Baltic See, that then reached in here. The small lakes nearby are formed by huge ice blocks deposited in the ice river material.
Bölskullen is a nature reserve. The wandering path Västra Vätterleden passes just north of Bölskullen. From there are marked walking paths up to the hill and to a peculiar pine with crust bark.
24.
TOOTHACHE PINE AT KLAMPABRON
Along Västra Vätterleden grows an old pine tree, that has been used to cure toothache. People poked in the aching tooth with a splinter, that then was put in the barque of the pine. There are still holes in the barque after such splinters.
Bölets ängar are meadows with well-preserved and attractive rests of an old heritage landscape. It earlier has been used as a forest meadow, but now only a smaller part is used on a traditional way with gras cutting. Instead most of Bölets ängar today are grazed pastures.
The bedrock consists mostly of a special slate, whose lime content contributes to a rich and varied vegetation. Particularly interesting is the rests of the forest meadows, that earlier had big occurrence in the district. Here, you find lots of species favoured by gras cutting. Many of them have earlier been frequent, but are now decreasing. Also the pastures have a rich flora. Among the many rarities in the area can be mentioned the most impressive orchid in Sweden, the lady's-slipper.
Bölets ängar is a nature reserve. The wandering path Västra Vätterleden passes through the reservation. There are also short walk paths round in the area.
In Bölet area has mining for manganese been carried out periodically from the 1680s until 1946. The mining area, that is approximately 1 km long and 300 m broad, consists of 76 big mine holes. The deepest - Vretsgruvan - is 240 metres deep.
Old and still in use lasting fishing habour at the lake Vättern. You can buy fish in the habour. Along the little road down to the habour are deciduous forest with rich vegetation. Ivy and many other interesting plants are growing here. The wandering path Västra Vätterleden passes through the area.
Immediately south of Valekleven is a narrow, deep valley from the road down to lake Vättern. There are pastures and deciduous forests with a rich flora in the bottom of the valley. The valley is included in a bigger nature reserve.
Near the shore line is an excavated behalf after a blast furnace, that probably have been uses in the 1300s.
Valekleven is a 700 m long mountain with partial vertical steeps. The top is almost 80 m over the surface of lake Vättern. The mountain is included in a bigger nature reserve. There mostly grows an old, unaffected coniferous forest of 250 years age and with a poor flora.
The whole montain has been a hillfort dated to the 500s. In all slopes with weak inclination are appreciable remains of stone embankments.
From the east side of Valekleven you have a wonderful view out over lake Vättern. The wandering path Västra Vätterleden passes Valekleven. There are also a marked walk path round the montain.
Granvik earlier was an industrial center with a blast furnace, sawmill and brickwork. Today only a few buildings remain from the industry epoch. A district museum has been established in one of the buildings.
In the old works manor today is a restaurant. Just north of the manor are leftovers after an English park. Just near lake Vättern are ten cottages for rental, a beach for swimming and a marina with guest places.
You can walk on marked paths from Granvik to many showplaces in the environments, among other thing to Djäknesundet, Valekleven and the hilly forests west of Granvik. Granvik is also a starting point for wandering on the marked paths Bergslagsleden against north and Västra Vätterleden against söder. Granvik is included in a big nature reserve.
31.
DJÄKNESUNDET AND OMBO
ISLANDS
The area is constituted of beautiful shores and an archipelago in lake Vättern. It is characterized of a rocky shoreline with narrow bays and many small islands. An old, unchanged pine forest grows on the mountainous shores and islands. From the mountains, you often have a delicate view out over the archipelago and lake Vättern.
In a deep bay at the beatiful Djäknesundet there is a good bathing place with a fine sandy beach and fine shore cliffs in the environments. In another bay there is a sheltered marina with guest places. The whole area is popular for yachting.
At Djäknesundet is a rich flora of meadow nature.
This area is included in an a big nature reserve covering the shores of lake Vättern from here and southwards to Valekleven and Hyttehamn south of Granvik. Here are many marked walk paths and the wandering path Bergslagsleden passes the area.
This national park was initialized in1983. It is 1.353 hectares and is constituted of a montainous and wooded wilderness area at the lake Trehörningen. The landscape has grand landforms, characterized of a lot of narrow riftvalleys and big erratic blocks. On some places there are huge accretions of blocks. The ridges largely have a bare bedrock with sparse, old pine forests. The ridges often have high and vertical steeps. In the narrow valleys morasses and small lakes are dominating.
In some parts the forest is considered as a primeval forest, for example in areas at Stenkälla, Trollkyrka and Tärnekullen. Here are trees of an age of 300 years old. These old trees often show tracks after forest fires, among others after a widespread forest fire here in 1835. The forest is today left unaffected from logging or other silviculture in the whole national park.
The best starting point for visits in the national park is the visit center at the east end of lake Stora Trehörningen. Here is a permanent exhibition and in summer time also a manned information central. Parts of the national park are easy to access via many marked paths going from the visit center. There are totally 25 km marked paths within the national park. The paths enable loops of varying length - from 1,5 km to 15 km - to the most interesting showplaces in the national park. The paths are hard in an hilly terrain. Other parts of the national park are reserved and without paths.
Vitsand is a fine sandy beach at the north shoreline of the ake Stora Trehörningen, that can be reached with car. Vitsand also is a good starting point for walking on marked paths in the northern part of the national park.
The wandering path Bergslagsleden runs through the east part of the national park. It's connected to the other path system in the national park.
Junker Jägares stone is the the biggest erratic block in Tiveden. It's transported to this place by the inland ice. It is 15 m high and standing upright. According to a legend, the name derives from a tragic love story about a Norwegian hunter, who fell in love with a fair jungfru.
Many legends are connected to the island Kyrkogårdsön and its names. A legend says, that people fled here, when the black death hit the country in the 1300s. According to the legend many people died as a result of the black death, and the dead persons were buried at the water passage, that still today is called Dödssundet (Death passage). In 1950 the parish of Undenäs erected a stone monument with the text ”Till erinran av de genom digerdöden hädangångna” ( ” In memory of the deceased through the black death”).
Kyrkogårdsön is included in a bigger nature reserv, where also Uvviken and adjacent shores along lake Vättern are included. The shores are montainous and hilly with many small bays and old primeval forest. From the shores you have nice views out to the open lake Vättern.
Kyrkogårdsön can only be reached by boat. The whole area is popular for boat sports. It's hard to visit the shores from the land side.
Here a smeltery was built in 1696. The current smeltery is from 1826. It was working until 1923. Remaining today is the blast furnace with hot air work, a water wheel and the basis to the rust oven. Near the smeltery are big mounds of slag.
The iron ore was fetched mostly from the mines in the mining district of Lerbäck. A railway led from the smeltery down to lake Vättern, where the pig-iron were loaded on ships for further transport to among others hamar smithies in Aspa and Algrena. Left today are an embankment and a pier at lake Vättern.
A walking path starts at the smeltery with destination to the beautiful nature reserve Utnäset, that consists of a montainous cape and islands in lake Vättern just east of Igelbäcken.
Hilly shore area at lake Vättern with a cape and islands outside. An old, unchanged pine forest dominates on the mountains. Beautiful views out to the open lake.
A walking path with starting point in Igelbäcken goes through the area, that is protected as a nature reserv.
Gammelrud is a farmstead exempt from land dues. It's from the middle ages. The main building is built in the 1760s.
Vaberget is an important area for the scientific research and understanding of the geologic development of Sweden. Among others there are well-preserved old shore lines on many different places and levels on the slopes of the montain.
The area also contains old defences of high historical value. Between 1880 and 1912 two forts were blasted in the bedrock. These were the two first forts of this kind in the country. At the same time three other defences were built farther down in the slope. They should support the fortress in Karlsborg, which had become very vulnerable as a result of the technical development.
The area still today is a military exercise area, but is also a walking area. In the winter Vaberget is used for skiing. From Vaberget you have an outstanding view to Karlsborg and the lakes Bottensjön and Vättern. Västra Vätterleden passes the mountain.
Myrhulta mosse is a vast, almost unditched morass complex. Open bogs and swamps are dominating, but also marsh forests, pools and small lakes occur. Small parts of primeval forest can be found on fast land islands in the morass complex.
It's difficult to visit the complex. Through the size and the undisturbed situation the morass also is valuable for the animal life.
In the steep of Uggleberget against Ugglebergsmossen is a primeval coniferous forest growing. There are lots of fallen trees. It's left totally free from silviculture. The area is protected as a nature reserve. It's hard to come there.
The grove just behind the earlier school in Högshults is the only known, natural plant place in the world for this odd tree. It has a shape like a poplar and was detected here about 1840. It's distributed only by suckers. Now, you can see planted and sometimes also undomesticated pillar aspen in many places in the Undenäs district, among others at Granvik and Sätra.
Near the village Pjungserud is an interesting gathering of log boats from old times. A log boat is chopped out from only log. These boats are found in morasses and lakes. The different types show the development of the log boats.
An old farm from Bålerud, originally built 1740, has been moved to a new place just near Älgarås. There is also an old farm smithy on the farm. The farm now is a folk museum with assemblies of old items from this district.
Tis is the oldest wood church in Västergötland, built in the middle of the 1400s. The church is built of lumber, that indoors is bare. On the outside, the walls are covered with chips. The church is enlarged with the choir in 1684, the porch in 1707 and the tower in 1735. There are ceiling paintings from 1757 in the church. Of special interest among the many old inventories are the medieval carvings, an old church bell with runic inscription and a babtismal font of soapstone.
The church in Beateberg is a central church, i e a octangular church with the tower in the middle. I's built in brick in the end of the 1870s. Earlier an old wood church stood on same place. The church is beautifully located in a slope down to lake Viken. Near the church is a small halting place with a beautiful view over the lake.
At Ryholm is a vast area with alder swamps, marshes and vase areas. It has a very rich animal life, where most of the birds typical for eutrofic lakes are represented. The area and its many species can easily be studied from a road, that passes the area.
At Ölmestorp is a small, well-kept forest meadow. It is used in an old manner with scythe cutting. Here grow about 10 old ashes with clear tracks after leaf cutting. The flora is rich with many species favoured of the meadow management.
Higher up on the slope is a hilly cultivated landscape with irregular patches of fields, pastures and deciduous forests. Everywhere are lots of stone walls and mounds. Leaf cutting of ashes is still going on here..
Karlsborg is the municipality center for big parts of the Undenäs district.
The place is most known for its fortress, lieing on Vanäs cape in lake Vättern. The fortress began to be built in 1819, and the building works were completed in 1909. From defence view it was out of date already in the middle of the 1800s. The fortress is an impressing building with among others the 678 m long hous of defence with the garrison church in the middle. The fortress is surrounded of high embankments. In the fortress is a museum, too.
In Karlsborg, Göta channel ends out in Vättern.
Originally Tivedstorp was an old Finnish village, called Hindrikstorp. The immigrating finns came here in the early 1600s. Then they began to fell the forest, burn woodland and cultivate the land. There are still very old buildings in the village and its neighbourhood, for example smithy, ovine house and barns built with logs and with sod roofs.
Today theree is café and a small chapel in the cottage. The wandering path Bergslagsleden passes the village. A marked path loop starts in the village, passing some of the very old-fashioned buildings. Also an old church path from here to the church of Tived is marked.
The people living in this part of Tiveden had a very long way to the church in Undenäs. Some of them had about 30 km to walk on bad church paths. Already in the end of the 1600s therefore the people here began to discuss to build a church in Tived. But first in 1847 they could start building. The church was completed after just seven weeks work by the people in the neighbourhood. Church is beautifully situated on the slope to lake Unden.
A old church path between Tived and Tivedstorp is marked. Along it, near Tived, is a round wolf pit, more than 2 m deep and 7 m in diameter.
An impressive linden grows one kilometre south of the church just east of the road. The linden is 25 m high and have a stem circumference of 5,35 m. It is a nature monument.
51. STONE ARCH
BRIDGE
AT TARMLÅNGEN
This is a beautiful, old stone arch bridge along the old road between Tived and Askersund, where it is passing the brook Tarmlångsbäcken. The bridge is visible from new the road. The brook flows through a narrow riftvalley, that is called Tarmlångsdalen. It can be followed southward 7 km to the lake Stora Trehörningen in Tiveden national park.
Northward the long lake Bergvattnet is situated in the same valley. At west shore of Bergvattnet is one of the most beautiful giant's kettles in the district. It is 3,5 m wide and 3,5 m high. It is created in the bedrock by water from the melting inland ice. It is formed like a chair and therefore called Jättestolen (The giant chair).
This is an erratic block with a small cave below. The block is situated along the old road between Tived and Askersund. Travellers on the road threw a small stone in the cave in order to avoid accidents during the trip. In the early 1900s the thief Bildsköne Bengtsson stayed hidden in the cave.
53. GIANT'S KETTLE AT STENSJÖN
A beautiful giant's kettle, 70 cm in diameter and 150 cm deep. It is hollowed out in teh bedrock by running water during the glacial period.
Folk museum at the earlier school in Dammtorp. Here you can see among others a old flaxen cottage, smithy, tar grave, barn with an old tresh, charcoal-burner's cabin and an old house with original furniture.
Skyttasjön is a little lake, beautifully situated in an open culture landscape in the Finnish countryside deeply in the forests of Tiveden. There are red water roses growing in the lake. They are planted here.
A small boulder ridge with steep sides. It is createed by meltwater streams at the deglaciation. Getaryggen is regarded to be the limit between Svea- and Götaland (Central and south Sweden) and the provinces Närke and Västergötland.
The old pilgrim path between the abbeys in Ramundeboda in northern Tiveden and Vadstena or Alvastra in Östergötland followed the ridge. Today it is replaced by two marked wandering pathes, Munkastigen (Monk path) and Bergslagsleden, here in the same line.
Getaryggen is a nature reserve. Here is a little bath place in Bosjön. South of the nature reserve is an halting place with windshield, fireplace and bridge for canoes.
Caves under huge blocks of stone. Snow can be found in the coolness under the blocks until midsummer. Wolf nets were in old times tightened over the narrow valley, and the wolfs then were forced into the caves in Vargaklämman, where they were killed.
The red water rose has two known original plant places in the world. The lake Fagertärn is one of them. The second one is Kroksjöarna, also in Tiveden. The red water roses here became general known in 1856, when the student Bernhard Agaton Kjellmark visited sjön after hints from people living in Tiveden. The remarkable plant got known and reckless predation began. Among others roots were sold on the market in Askersund. The red water rose was spread and today it can man be seen in the gardens and parks in entire Europe. There are now red water roses in about 10 lakes in Tiveden.
Crossbreed between the red and white water roses is common. Then water roses occur in different colors from pink to dark red. All red and pink water roses is today protected, and lake Fagertärn with its shores today is a nature reserve.
There are marked walking paths around the lake.
This is a forest with 150 years old, mighty and thick pines. All dead trees are left, upright as well as fallen. The forest is protected by the owner.
There is a windshield with fireplace in the forest.
