In the middle of the woods and near the lake Flyxen you will find this building with a barn. It is a former school, Sjöbygget Skola. It is a very old building. It was build around 1876 by Vittaryd Kyrka.
They needed to build a school because of a new Swedish law. Every one in the village had to pay partly. The teacher got a parttime job in Sjöbygget and Dörärp. He also got a horse and granes to store in the barn.
Later they renovated the building. They put up an extra floor, so the teacher could live upstairs. We think the building is changed around 1928 (we found little information about it in Vadstena Riksarchiv) because it is bigger now as it looks on the earlier pictures. The children from the houses and farms in the neighborhood went to this school from 1876 till around 1950. They walked there every day.
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| The old entrance of the school |
Sometimes people are looking at our house, looking for memories, because a long time time ago they (or one of their parents) went to school in this building. It was only a small school, they only had one classroom, for all ages. Some one has told us they could play outside in the corner towards the roads or take a swim in lunchtime in the lake. There was a vegetables and fruitgarden (köksland) in the back. We know the teacher was living upstairs. That's why you will find an old days wood stove upstairs to cook on (på Svenska: "vedspis") and 4 tiled stoves (på Svenska: kakelugnar) to warm the rooms. They are still there 😃. As far as we know now, the school was closed around 1950, when they build a new school near the church in Vittaryd.
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| Downstairs the former classroom |