About living in an old school / Gamla skola Sjöbygget

In the middle of the woods and near the lake Flyxen you will found this building. It is a former school, Stegaryd Sjöbygget west from Vittaryd. We bought it in 2015. It is a very old building. It was build around 1876. The children from the houses and farms in the neighborhood went to this school  from 1876 till around 1950. Sometimes people are looking at our house, looking for memories, because a long time time ago they went to school in this building. It was only a small school, they only had one classroom, for all ages. We know the teacher was living upstairs. That's why you will find an old days woodoven to cook on (på Svenska: "vedspis") and 4 tiled stoves (på Svenska: kakelugnar) to warm the rooms. They are still there 😃

Downstairs the former classroom

The old entrance of the school

Wood oven / Vedspis upstairs

One of the kakelugnar

As far as we know now, the school was closed around 1950, when they build a new school in the middel of Vittaryd. The old school was sold to a lady who lived there for a long time, nearly more than 50 years. . The classroom was kept in the way it was for a long time. As far as we know now they were only living upstairs. We are told she liked to garden. She was always outside in the garden. Today we still can find traces of that times. We found already the old times compost place and some of grandmothers plants. We were told she was also a writer with the name Elsa Lindström. But we are not sure about that. Her husband was creating concrete sculptures. Today we still find three fisher man at the lake, an old man watching the gate, a hair, some flowers and some frogs in the garden.

Around 2008 the building was sold again. From that time the building was completely renovated. They saved some old details, but also some disappeared. They changed the classroom to a living room, made a kitchen downstairs and sleeping rooms upstairs. We, Peter and Brun, bought it in 2015.

We should like to find out more about the history and this building. Like plans, stories or pictures.
So when you know more? Please tell us or send us more information. Thanks!