Welcome to Hedemora Gammelgård, Dalarna's oldest town. An oasis in the middle of town since 1915. Summer cafe, events and rental of premises.
The farm was inaugurated in 1915 (the year before Sweden's Hembygdsförbund was founded) and is one of the oldest in the country. The homestead has a collection of around 4,500 old objects, mainly scythes, as Hedemora was known in earlier times for its scythe forge. At Gammelgården you can also see a memorial stone for Kerstin Hed and a bust representing Karl Trotzig, created by the artist Arvid Backlund. In total, the old farm consists of 12 buildings, in addition to toilets and the stage. Inside the area is also the former Janitor's residence Petersburg, the city's waterworks and the former steam power plant, which is right next door.
We offer a summer café with good home-baked bread, waffles and locally produced ice cream. In our historic buildings you can see exhibitions with things from the past. In summer, we invite you to National Day and Midsummer celebrations, family programs, exhibitions, lectures and guided tours. We have a sandbox and climbing frame with a swing as well as a bathing jetty for a swim or fishing. In September, we organize Culture and Crafts Day with exhibitors and local artisans where you can try different crafts and shop. For the sports holiday, we participate in Light Night on Lake Hönsan with charcoal buns, coffee in the Storstugan and kicking and skating on the ice. You can rent our Baker's Cottage with a wood-burning oven all year round. Invite friends, family or your company for a cozy and fun experience together. Wood-burning oven for bread or pizza baking. You can rent yourself or book with a course leader who will introduce you to the cabin and teach you how to bake. Enjoy together after a fun day or evening. During the summer, you can rent other premises for larger and smaller groups.
We have 2 pitches for mobilehomes with electricity and access to toilet and shower from 15/4-15/9. No booking, first to be served. More information under Ställplats
Summercafé
We offer locally produced goods including classic waffles, gray waffles (waffle batter with grated potatoes from Roslund and cheese from the dairy at Skedvi Bröd), home-baked coffee bread, glasses from Skedvi.
Enjoy a cup of coffee with good bread or a freshly baked waffle with jam and whipped cream in a historic atmosphere, overlooking Lake Hönsan. On rainy days, you can cozy up in front of the fire in the Storstugan, furnished in an old-fashioned way with box beds. Visit our collections, take the opportunity to listen and look at objects.
Opening hours 2024
1 May - 19 June Thu-Sun at: 11am-5pm
20 June - 18 August all days 11-18
Contact details for the Café:
Karin and Pernilla
[email protected]
+4670-779 05 02
For more information visit our website or follow us on social media.
About Hedemora
Hedemora is Dalarna's oldest city and received city privileges as early as 1459. The city now had the right to a mayor, councilors and a court. Hedemora's history is mainly linked to trade and the markets that were held in the town, the most famous of which was the Pålsmässomarknaden, a market that existed until the beginning of the 20th century.
Two large urban fires have ravaged central Hedemora.
The first in 1754 and the next in 1849. Both fires were extensive and large parts of the city center burned down. Of the medieval town, only the church remains today, which was built at the end of the 13th century or the beginning of the 14th century. Therefore, most of Hedemora's current buildings were built after 1849.
The oldest parts of the city center are most clearly visible around Stora torget, the City Hall, the City Hotel, and the old apothecary farm, which now houses a café and building maintenance shop.
In the blocks south from Stora torget towards the church, there are several examples of old built-up commercial farms with shop premises facing the street. In addition to the medieval city center, Hedemora's centrumgata, Åsgatan is characterized by 50s apartment buildings with shops on the ground floor, and the further out from the city center you look, the more modern the buildings become.
The municipality also includes the larger villages of Vikmanshyttan, Långshyttan, Stjärnsund and Garpenberg, surrounded by smaller villages and cabins. Here there is a long tradition of mining, iron production and forestry, while at the same time extensive agriculture has been carried out in several places in the municipality.
Several larger ironworks have existed within the municipality, for example in Norn, Stjärnsund, Kloster and Långshyttan. Many of the municipality's villages have ancient origins and appeared in writing as early as the 14th century.
About Hedemora Gammelgård
In 1908, the Association Hedemora Gammelgård was formed after a youth meeting in 1905 and a homestead committee was appointed in 1907. Karl Trotzig was the one who got most involved in the project, which would show how life in the 18th century could be. The city of Hedemora donated a piece of land on Badelundaåsen's slope towards lake Hönsan in 1908, where a couple's cottage from Hedgården in Vikbyn was moved. The purchase and relocation of the cottage was largely financed by funds collected at the youth meeting in 1905. On June 12, 1915, the old farm was inaugurated and then consisted of eight buildings and a number of planted birch trees.
Karl Trotzig
He was the founder of Hedemora Gammelgård and co-founder of Dalarna's Ancient Heritage and Homeland Association. Karl Trotzig was a member of the city council between the years 1891 and 1921. He helped push through, among other things, a new VA system in 1894, where he also sat as chairman of the building committee and became director of the new waterworks from its completion in 1896 until 1935.
Trotzig was also involved and contributed to the electrification of the city. In 1899 he became chairman of the Belysningsföreningen and in 1901 it was decided that a coal-fired power plant would be built in Petersburg, at the present Gammelgården. This was completed in 1903 and a hydroelectric plant in Katrinedal was completed in 1906. In 1916, the power from Älvkarleby power station could be delivered to Hedemora, whereupon these two plants were replaced with a transformer station, Elkyrkan, at the northern end of lake Hönsan. Trotzig was Hedemora's electricity manager.
Karl Trotzig was active in the association De Diskuterande Vännerna, formed in 1886. The association pushed the issue of a reading room and lending library in Hedemora in 1887, and when the town appointed a library committee to investigate the issue, he became chairman.
In 1889, Karl Trotzig joined the Swedish Tourist Association and became an agent for Hedemora in 1899. Between 1908 and 1934, he contributed five editions of the Tourist Association's travel guide for Dalarna.
In 1908, Trotzig took the initiative to form the Association Hedemora Gammelgård, and the first house for the old farm was bought in the same year. Gammelgårdsparken was designed and planted in 1914, and in 1915 the old manor opened to visitors.A few weeks after the inauguration of the Hedemora old manor, a number of people interested in homesteads met in Älvdalen, for the inauguration of the old manor in Rots skans. This is the prelude to the formation of the Dalarna Antiquities and Homeland Association, which is formally formed at Gustaf Ankarcrona's home in Tällberg a few weeks later, where Karl Trotzig brought a ready-written proposal for statutes and was also elected vice chairman of the association.
Kerstin Hed
Kerstin Hed is a pseudonym for the writer and farmer's wife Hilda Olsson formed by Kersgården, which was her ancestral farm, and the hometown of Hedemora. Kerstin Hed was born in 1890 in Hamre in Hedemora parish and remained faithful to her home town for the rest of her life. She died in 1961. Her poetry is characterized by peasant life and the hard-working and poor population of the countryside. She was active in the public education, temperance and peasant movements. A memorial stone was erected by the landowner of Hedemora parish in 1990 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the author's birth and can be found outside the gate to Gammelgården.
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The free media repository Wikimedia Commons has a number of pictures of Hedemora Gammelgård, which is free to use, if information about photographer and license is provided.
Our Facebook page where you can take part of additional photos, events, etc. (in Swedish, though, but feel free to ask questions in English).
If you want you can become a member of the Association Hedemora Gammelgård. The membership fee for an individual member is SEK 250, or family SEK 400, paid into Swedish bank giro number 5132-0158. Please provide name, address and e-mail/phone number.