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  The most beautiful garden in Kronoberg Bring a friend, your beloved or the whole family to a wonderful outing to Kurrebo Nursery and Show Gardens. Here you can enjoy and stroll  amongst 700 varieties of roses, perennials, climbing plants, conifers, shrubs and trees. Our wish is that you will get ideas and be inspired for your own garden and feel the same joy to grow plants as we do.

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Magnis' power station: In a magical surrounding, amongst pine trees lies the power station. With an enormous energy Magni built it with a dam and a large paraphet for his little houshold in Aramo approximately 1 km from the power station.

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Lindalafall:  Once upon a time it was said,  that by Oxehall the pasture ended and that Hätteboda was the outmost limit for the law. The miller at the Lindala mill situated 5 km down in the woods in lawless country was one night hastely buried in the church yard in Urshult!!!! kyrkogård !!!

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The wolf pit in  Bastaremåla: The wolf pit in Bastaremåla. we maybe still remember the time when the wolf still was a threat to all the other wilde creatures and some times even for the creatures in the farms. The men wanted to protect their animals by orginazing searhings and well hide traps. To a wolfpit the hungry wolf was lured by a bleating goat and was met there by killing spears or gun shots.

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The block field in Bastaremåla:  The block field is composed by rocks and stones in the stream bed from Bäckaskoga göl. The rocks (larger than 20 centimetre in cross section) and the stones (2-20 centimetres) have once been transported by the inland ice which with a powerful flow of melted water took sand and gravel with it about 11 000 years ago. Gravel and sand has been flushed away by streaming water in the Spring.

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Tarry dale in  Buskaboda: Tarry burning takes place in a tarry valley, which is built like a funnel, round,  burried in a bank. The bottom is covered with beach bark, spruce bark and wood chips. The tarry runs to the bottom and where a hole where the terry collects, it is kept shut with a wooden plug so that a fire can not start.

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Klasa Gubbe: has a story in which two islands are connected in Urshult. Lake Åsnen and lake Mien. Klasa Gubbe is related to the Giant family, he was drivin away by bell ringing from the Hwam church. He lived outside Klasamålalandet down to the island Klasahall in Mien. He lived here for hundreds of years in a cave. He could show anger or goodness. Is he still there? Maybe. 

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Ekefors: Elin Wägner fouded this saying ” Evening Community by Ekefors” .In her book: ”Thousand years in Småland” she tells about the little community that once was situated where the river Mörrumsån starts. Then there where still houses in which people lived. Now, the only thing left, is the remainder of the mill, pawement stones and one lonely lamppost.

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Urshults kyrka: was built around the year 1810, and then replaced a wooden church built in the 15:th century. The church has seats for 800 people and it is known for the big coral paintings which represents the birth of Jesus, the Crucifiction and the Descent to heaven. The paintings in Urshults church are the most distinguished ones made by the artist Ludvig Frid who was born in Småland

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Sockenstugan (The Parish Hall): forms a border towards the southside of the old churchbank. There people met before service and there the dead lay waiting before the funeral. The cottage has also been a school. Now it is a museum for local history where the inhabitants of Urshult has collected items from it’s more than a thousand year old history, There are a lot of things to see and reflect upon here.

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Kyrkstallarna (The Church Stables): Near the Parish Hall is a few  red stables, the rest of a long  row of Church stables along the road, passing by the church. Here the churchgoers rested their horses  and had a bit to eat themselves. There has always been stables near the church. Most of them disappeared when the road had a new direction and modern vehicles replaced the horse and carriage. The remaining stables are to be kept  and complement the Parish Hall.

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Jordkulan (The cavern) in Froaryd: has been reconstructed by the inhabitants in Froaryd to show the sort of accomodation  the poorest people had to live in, not  so long ago. Here once lived a man called “Betsla-Kalle”. 

Direction: The road to Rösmåla approx 4 km, turn left towards Froaryd

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Väderkvarnen (The Windmill) in Segersnäs: is the only wind mill standing at it’s original place in Urshult. It was built in the 1890:s but broken by a storm around Christmass 1902. The windmill was rebuilt 1958 and reconstructed 1987. About 4 m from the mill is a cist, a grave from  pre-historic times, approx  3 500 years old. 

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Predikstolen (The Pulpit) in Trehörna: is a phantastic shaped stone. The myth tells that Saint Sigfied during his Christian mission in Värend (this part of Småland) preached the Holy Word from here and christened the heathens in a well nearby. The well has also been connected to the pagan religion, the Aesir cult where a well called the Urdarwell, from wich Urshult maybe got its name.

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Church Spot in Bosgård: is a splendid and magnificent stone monument that marks the first church in Urshult. The name then was Hwam. The earlier church was burned by the Danes in the 15:th century. There is a stone alter, a cross and a bell tower. Services are held during the summer. In sight is the island Bos holme where there is the rest of a stronghold which was used by the bishop of Växjö in the 14.th century to secure and control the waterway to the south. 

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Lunnabacken: is an old heathen cult place which nowadays is a meeting place for the locals and visitors in Urshult. Here is the highest point in the parish (187 metres above the sea) and a breath taking view of lake Åsnen. Since decades is here also the manor of Odensvallahult now a folk museum. Close to Lunnabacken is Kurrebo.  A path is leading to Kärrasand  a camping place with a bathing area and a danceplace. 

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The slingstone at Knallehall: lies and rocks a little on its flat rock and reminds us of the time when the myth was born and the giants were feared by the bells from the church Hwam.The giants wanted to destroy the bells and one female giant  throw a rock but missed and the stone landed at Knallehall instead of  at the church. Direction, The road towards Sirkön, turn left just after Kärrasand and follow the boards.

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Stenfors: An iron works by the rapid in Bräkneån, situated just after the outflow of the lake Tiken. It was started in the end of the 17:th century.  By the waterfall higher up, an ironhammerworks  was started 1693. A blacksmith started at a smaller fall downstream and by a third fall a kilometer to the south there was since the 16:th century a flourmill and here a sawmill was built in the 18:th century

Jordkulan i Tåget: The soldier Marsch´s earth hut.Nils Gummesson Marsch (also called Mars) was born in Väckelsång in 1807 and served as a soldier for Kinnevalds company during the years 1827 and 1839. His wife was named Eva Andersdotter and was born in 1791.