19/7 2010: Train to Hässleholm. Walk Första avenyen past the town square, where the spring is ever present as a statue, Hotel Statt, and up to the church at the top. A bright and spacious brick church built in 1914. Go in and light a candle.

At the edge of the Historical Park, behind the church, is the local museum. There is a temporary exhibition of paintings of farms. Permanent is Skåne's history, with Neolithic findings at the settlement of Mölleröd. Tools and equipment, craft workshops. Rooms with everyday utensils and furniture. And more, as it is usually in a local museum. On my previous visit was with delight a penis baton shown, made of penises from executed criminals. Can not find it, the man at the front desk know nothing about it. Or was it the penis of bulls? Or a made-up memory? It was forty years ago I was in here.

Walk down into the park past the statue Snapphanen, made by Axel Ebbe. Snapphanar was a guerilla band when Sweden conquered Skåne from Denmark in the second half of the 17th century. To the park has been moved a number of old houses. At the duck pond stands the Verum saw and a small water mill. A constructed brook is babbling down the hill on which there is a windmill from Öland. At the duck pond is a playground. Below the museum is a lawn with a stage. Here and there are copies of ancient tombs. Once the coffee house was in the beautiful Läredagården, which somebody put on fire. In 1991 one moved one of the city's oldest house here, which now is the coffee house. Upstairs is an art exhibition and second hand bookshop. The bookshop consists of a few boxes of books. Selects raspberry pie and coffee and sit down outside the house.

Of old trees (dead elms) have been made pieces of art. Among the houses is a watchmaker's workshop, Hovdala Cottage from the 1600s, Sörby rectory, and Vannaröd cottage from the 1600s. On a ridge lies a stone with a cross on, and millstones. Wonder where they come from? Below the ridge is a stable, this had once animals. On the other side of Kristianstadsvägen is a relatively newly built pond. Thereafter, the city's pleasure palace, Björksäter, Björket called. Nothing there right now so I go to the railway station to take the train home.

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