Cultural hike in Bissjön
A nice hike in historical environment, approximately 3,5 kilometres.
If you start your hike where Ersnäsvägen connects to nowadays main road, east of the road, you can see a sawmill operated from 1930 to the middle of 1970. Besides typical settlements of the region, some as old as 200 years, following sights can be seen in turn during the tour:
1. Brooding hen. A big flat rock on smaller rocks (eggs). The ancient monument is in sight from a sign at Ersnäsvägen. Science does not know the original function of this type of monument. District court and/or a site where chiefs were appointed thrills the imagination. Three cairns and a brooding hen inside a circle with 500 m radius must signify something.
2. Cairns. Two big cairns in the junction Ersnäsvägen/Gammvallsvägen and one close to Gammvallsvägen. Those are as other cairns in the region situated about 30-40 m above sea level meaning they were built 3000-4000 years ago in the Bronze Age period of Scandinavia.
3. Water powered mills/sawmills/chipboard machine. The rapids in the Bissjö stream have been exploited since time immemorial. Even today channels and foundations of sawmills and mills can be investigated. Recommended halting place.
4. Community centre. Village school from 1906-1956 when the building was transformed to a village chapel. 2002 the building was acquired by the village community and holds today a library from the 1930s and the oldest maps of the village.
5. Millennium monument. A pyramid built of 20 rocks from village ground is situated about 20 m north of the community centre. The 20 rocks represent a century each. Inside the pyramid is a case made of acid-proof plate and filled with inert gas. It contains drawings made by children of the village, a map, coins and bills from groceries etc. All supposed to mirror the last decades of 1900.
6. Flora. Along the trail signs are pointing out mostly typical plants of the area - did you know them and their names?
Have a nice hike in a village of great natural beauty and historically intreresting sights, which we together manage with carefulness! The hike is arranged by Bissjöns citizens committee.