Håby Church and Cemetery, Munkedal, Sweden

I made a stop at Håby Church and Cemetery in Munkedal in Västra Götaland county in Sweden on my way home from Svenska Släktforskardagarna (the Swedish Genealogy Convention) in Borås in August 2019. I have passed the church several times before, but it is not always easy to make stops/detours like this, especially when you have other people in the car who might not share your interest in cemeteries and genealogy or think that is more important to reach the planned destination as soon as possible. But this time I was driving on my own and could do whatever I wanted! I still got back in time to spend some quality time with my daughter before she had to go to bed.

Håby Church (kyrka) is situated in the Foss parish in the diocese of Göteborg (Gothenburg). The present church building was finished in 1731, but there has been a church at the same spot since the 12th century. Some changes have been made under renovation work, among others in 1939. You can find more details on Wikipedia (Swedish version), which includes a photo of the interior (the altar).

Grave of riksdagsman (Member of Parliament) Johannes Andersson of Knarrevik (1821–1898). The Wikipedia article (in Swedish) has a portrait of him.

Smith family grave.

Grave of Hans J. Bryngelsson (1837–1919) and his nearest family.

Family grave of Olof Engelbrektsson and in front 3 Hallin graves.

All 12 photos: © 2019 Dag Trygsland Hoelseth.

It was a sunny day when I made the stop. A bit too sunny, perhaps, because it made it impossible to take photos of all angles of the church. It was well worth stopping by, though.

Rönnäng Church and Cemetery, Tjörn, Sweden

(1) Rönnäng Church and Cemetery.

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(4) The sea became their grave / Erected 1960 in memory of their deed / Then the sea gave up its dead/ Rev 20:13

(5) Seamen lost at see. More names at the other side of the memorial, but the the sun "destroyed" the photo opportunity.

(6) Fishermen, sea captains, pilots etc. and their wives seem to form the majority of the people buried at Rönnäng Cemetery. Not too surprising when they lived in a fishing village.

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(16) Gravestone of J. Gulbrandsson (1760-1856).

(17) Only the gravestone left...

(18) The backside of the church, and at this time of the day one had to go to the other side of the church to see the sun. Naturally it made the photo a bit dark.

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(23) Anders Emanuel Berg (1795-1842) (top inscription) was a "lots-fördelningschef", which I guess could be translated into something like "division head of the harbour pilots".

(24) A great view of the church and the area.

Rönnäng Church was built in 1795 and is situated in the locality of Rönnäng at the island and municipality of Tjörn (map) in Västra Götaland county in the province of Bohuslän at the Swedish westcoast. If you follow E6 northwards from Gothenburg, you should follow the signs to Stenungsund and then cross the bridge. Tjörn is the 6th largest island in Sweden (after Gotland, Öland, Orust, Hisingen and Värmdö), and is a most charming place where many Swedes own a summer cottage.

I will come back with more photos from Tjörn in later blog articles.

Updated on 5 June 2012 at 20.40 (typo corrected, link added).