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Asby socken
Asby kyrka
Asby was a parish under the administrative county district of Ydre and was a parish into 1938, when it was put together with Torpa parish. The parish church is from the 13th century and was built enlarged in 1687 and 1733. The very beautiful detached belfry is from 1721. Inside the church you will among other things see a pulpit from 1709 and fresco from the 13th century. The geographical place of Asby is into the legendary countryside of Ydre in the borderland to the province Småland. That it is a district with many myths is emerge by e.g. the author Albert Engström's short story "Medan det Jäser". Here in abridgement: "…When I yesterday visited the shop to bay a brass wire for my pike trap, I met a farmer, who gave me his description and seriously wanted to inspire me and my host to turn round and go for an outing with guns and hounds. Because, an animal like that had never at all events been seen before in Ydre County. It is black and low-legged, has a tail as a fox, a inconceivable long neck pretty like the shape of a heron and on the opposite end carried a small cat's-head into it were two big eyes lightening as an ox. It arch its back like a cat and take the trees, when a person will approach. "It is so ugly that your nose will be bleeding, when you will see it"....." Ydre country really invites for wild imaginings. The neighbourhoods offer several beautiful places from which there is a view. The country has a broken ground. It is near the beautiful Sommen Lake and the wood is mixed up with arable land. Asby offer such a wonderful atmosphere of nature and culture. In the little church village of Asby, closed to the church, is a little school museum, worth seeing. Here you can follow the development from the first time of the Swedish elementary school to present-day. In a farm in Asby Udde (point of land), my great, great, grandfather, Sven, was born in 1777. You can read about my story about him, Soldaten Planck Wallpol. His grandparents, Hovrättsrådet (judge of appeal) Josua Planck, and his wife Birgitta Bulich, had bought the manor Briteberg. Sven's parents were the son to Josua and Birgitta, Martin Planck and the house maid, Annika Andersdotter, born in the neighbouring Torpa parish. The manor, Briteberg, was also called Södramålen. The farm had got its manor privilege in connection with the earlier owner Arvid Drake moved to the farm in the end of the 17th century. The manor house is still in existence and it is used as a summer cottage. Not far from Asby Udde and Briteberg is the farm Aspanäs. In the beginning of the 14th century lived here Katarina, the aunt to St. Birgitta. When Birgitta was 11 years old, her mother died. After her mother's death, Birgitta lived at Aspanäs a few summers at her aunt's farm. It was here that her religious gifts appeared. Birgitta, who was related to the reigning dynasty, "folkungarna", was married at the age of 13th or 14th to the knight Ulf Gudmarsson, who later became a chief judge in the province Närke. The married couple got eight children. After her husband died, Birgitta went to Rom and became one of the leading persons in Europe of that time. She founded the monastery foundation called Birgittinerorden and got the right to build a monastery in Vadstena. In 1999 the Pope appointed St. Birgitta as the patron saint of Europe.
External links:
The local authority of Ydre.
Asby Samhällsförening.
Bondens år (The year of the farmer)
The fabulous Sommen area
S.t Bridget of Sweden
Den Heliga Birgitta |
