Kyrkö Mosse
Kyrkö Mosse is the name of a bog near the Swedish town of Ryd in the municipality of Tingsryd . Here is a big junkyard (Swedish: Bilkyrkogården på Kyrkö Mosse ) in the middle of a forest.
Åke Danielsson (1914–2000), who initially only extracted peat here , later devoted himself to recycling cars. He left the cannibalized wrecks in the forest. He ran the business until the late 1980s and also lived on its premises in a small house before moving to a retirement home in 1992.
In the course of tightening environmental legislation, the subsequent owners of the site received requests from the authorities to evacuate the cars and renovate the ground. But there were also advocates. TV and press reported nationwide, and eventually the case even bothered the government. Unlike in similar cases, such as in the Swiss Kaufdorf or in the Belgian Châtillon , the Swedish authorities recognized the cultural and historical value of end-of-life vehicles and placed them under protection until 2050. By then, it is believed, the cars will have naturally decayed.
The car cemetery has become a popular destination for tourists. However, not all visitors behave according to its cultural and historical value. Vandalism increased sharply with the popularity , so that most of the car wrecks, which were still halfway intact a few years ago, have since been robbed of their attachments or have been trampled on their roofs and hoods out of sheer destructiveness. The area is accessible and unguarded at all times.
Web links
- The story and photos of Kyrkö Mosse at Spurensammler.de , accessed on October 3, 2009
- www.jasifil.se (Swedish)
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the car cemetery, German translation of an original Swedish text , accessed on October 3, 2009
- ^ Report of the Berliner Zeitung on Kyrkö Mosse , accessed on October 3, 2009
Coordinates: 56 ° 27 '59.8 " N , 14 ° 39' 2.5" E