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Vist parish
Vist parish was under Hanekind administrative county district and has been a parish to 1961, when it jointed with Vårdsnäs parish. There has been a church in Vist since the Middle Age, but the old one was taken down during the 18th century. A new church was consecrated in 1745. That church burnt completely down in 1961 and only the walls were left. In 1965 was present church consecrated. Vist parish is in the middle of the big landscape of oaks south of Linköping. In former times, the way along the water-system of Stångån river, which have its source in the highland of Småland and flows into Roxen lake north of Linköping,, was very important for the communication between Linköping and Kalmar. Here have in the old times, several kings and bodies of troops passed through on their way to the south of Sweden and further to the Continent.
 Kinda canal was ready in 1871 and the Stångån water system could with that be used for transport of both wood and timber, but also passenger traffic. The waterway is about 80 kilometres in length, 6 of it is excavated canal with 14 locks.
Vist is bear the stamp of two superior giant manors, Sturefors and Bjärka Säby. Sturefors was mentioned in about 1333 under the name of Kabbafors, which later became Forsa and further on Sturefors. The palace building is on a point at Lake Ärlången. In the end of the 16th century, the Bielke family, one of our oldest noble families, owned the manor. After the member of the Kings council, Carl Piper, and his wife Christina i 1699 became owners of Sturefors, many changes where made. While Carl served in the wars, Christina Piper gave her time to the manor. The old stone building was taken down and replaced by a baroque palace. Architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, who also designed the Royal Palace in Stockholm, designed that. The new palace building was ready in 1705. Unfortunately died Carl Piper as a war captive in Russia. After also Christina Piper was dead in 1752, Sturefors reverted to the Bielke family and so it is also in present time. On the part of Kinda canal, between Sturefors lock and Lake Regnen, there are two locks at Hamra and four locks at Hovetorp. That part has a difference in level of 25 meter. Arrived to the Lake Regnen, the palace of Bjärka Säby will appear. In 1902 the railway between Linköping and Hultsfred was ready. With technological advances, Kinda canal was gradually driven out of competition. Today it is only a waterway for the tourists. Seeing that many of my ancestors lived at Bjärka Säby in Vist parish, I give that manor an extra attention and describe it in a separate page. Below I describe the places where my ancestors lived.
The crofts Tomta, Brommetorp and the soldier crofts on Göttorp and Skälstorp lands
My grandfather, David Ström, was born in Brommetorp in 1893. He grew up here together with his mother Klara Ström and his grandparents, Ander Gustaf Ström and Maja Stina Fredriksdotter. Also Klara's ten brothers and sisters lived here. At the time, that family was the biggest one at Bjärka Säby lands. Anders Gustaf's father, Gustaf Ström, was born in 1805 in Ulrika parish and had in 1825 moved to Bjärka Säby lands. Then he had become the solder of file (rote) no 31, Skälstorp. Gustaf got married to the widow of a soldier from Nykil parish, Maja Nilsdotter. The married couple got five children at Skälstorp. In 1836 the family moved to the miliary file nr 30, Göttorp. A short time after that, the two youngest children died. At Göttorp another two children were born and one of them was Anders Gustaf.
After that Gustaf Ström had built up the croft Tomta and had retired from the military services, he moved to that croft. When Gustaf died in 1862, his son, Anders Gustaf, moved back home to his mother and became a crofter. He got married to Maja Stina Fredriksdotter and they got six children at Tomta, the oldest of them was Klara, David's mother. In 1878 Anders Gustaf made a barter transaction and moved to Brommetorp. At that place the family increased with another five children. After my grandfather David was born, he became one child among the other children.
 The crot Brommetorp how it look like in present time Anders Gustaf Ström became a butcher and his son Seth took over and start out a pork-butcher's on his own. Seth's son Åke took over the business and it grew and during the 50th and 60th became the pork butcher's company Ström & Svensson. Nils Adolf Ström was one of Anders Gustaf's older brothers. He was a crofter and lived at various places in Vist, among others at Oxhagen on Stavsätter lands and Kvarnen on Sturefors lands. He also worked on different railway construction sites in northern Sweden. Nils Adolf became a widower in 1882. After his youngest daughter Clara Olivia was confirmed and was 15 years old, he and Clara Olivia emigrated to North America in 1887. Nils Adolf. Nils returned to Sweden, but Clara Olivia stayed and has at the present time descendants in Boston, Massachusetts, and other places in U.S.A.
The crofts Hybbeln, Wässentorp, Nydahl and Gatan on Göttorp lands Anders Gustaf Ström's wife, Maja Stina Fredriksdotter, was born in 1844 at the croft Hybbeln. Her father, Fredrik Wässer, was a crofter and cultivated a forest meadow in point of land at the lake Regnen. This point point of land is still called after him, "Wessers udde", which is a nature reserve in present time. Fredik's mother, Christina Jonsdotter, lived as a widow together with her son's family at Hybbeln until her death in 1864. Fredrik's father, Peter Wässer, was a soldier and served for "rote" no. 20, Wässentorp. Peter's son Fredrik was born here in 1815. In the war in Pommern 1805-1807, he shared Sven Planck Wallpol's fate as a war captive in four years in France, see my separate story about that. After Peter had retired from the services, he and his wife moved into a new cottage in Wässentorp and then moved to the cottage Gatan on Göttorp lands, where Peter died in 1842. Maja Stina Fredriksdotter's mother, Lena Catharina Engström, was born in 1819 in the croft Nydahl. Her father, Anders Persson Engström, had become a crofter in Lilla Brommetorp, where he built up a new croft, called Nydahl. One of Lena Catarina's brothers, Johannes Engström, becomes a forest warden at Bjärka Säby lands. Lena Catharina died in 1862, only 42 years old. Maja Stina got married to Anders Gustaf Ström the year after her mother's death and moved to the croft Tomta. Fredrik Wässer lived in Hybbeln to his death in 1890.
Interna länkar:
Bjärka Säby Externa länkar:
Kinda Kanal
Bjärka Säby projektet
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