Nymåla
Fallhult Nymåla is the place name of a former so-called Backstuga in the Fallhult district, which belongs to Hultsfred. Hultsfred is located in the Swedish province of Kalmar län (historical province of Småland ). The house, built around 1870 at this location, has been preserved to this day and is currently used as a holiday home. In Swedish, a house of this size is called a stuga , which literally means hut.
The house is registered as a historic house by the Hultsfreds Hembygdsförening under number 132.
Backstuga
Originally Nymåla was a so-called "Backstuga". In Swedish history, a backstuga denotes a dwelling for the landless in the rural community. Some of these were relatively wealthy artisans, slave laborers , but sometimes also poor old people. In German there is the term Häusler as the most apt description for the residents of such a backstuga. Backstugas did not exist for tax purposes and were usually a bit out of the way on the property of another landowner or on general property. The residents often had a small piece of land to grow potatoes and usually had a few pigs and chickens for their own needs. However, they usually made a living from handicrafts, wage labor on farms, etc.
history
The name "Nymåla Backstuga under Fallhult" appears for the first time in the birth register of 1803 when a Jonas Petter was born in Nymåla on November 27th. From the following years there are always entries in various registers in which Nymåla is mentioned as a place of residence. It is known that between 1804 and 1808 a Lars Dahlgren lived there with his wife Anna Jonsdotter and that in 1810 their daughter Ingeborg was born there. In 1823 a Stina Karin, daughter of Nils Nilsson and his 25-year-old wife, Wendy Eriksdotter, was born in Nymåla. The widow Lena Johansdotter lived in Nymåla probably in the period around 1840-1850. According to HFL (Husförhörslängd) 1847-1853 lived in Nymåla Nils Gustav Pettersson with his wife Stina Lisa Persdotter. They had two children. In the HFL from 1860, a Johannes Jonsson with his wife Maja Lena Persdotter and their four children is mentioned as a resident of Nymåla.
Afterwards, the house that has been preserved to this day was rebuilt in Nymåla by the worker Anders Jonsson. He lived there with his wife Catharina Jonsdotter and died in 1868. The last person to live permanently in Nymåla was the worker August Hägg, who died in 1942. The house was bought by the pharmacist Gunnar Ehrby from Hultsfred, later transferred to a third party, and has since been used as a summer house. In November 2009, the German Peter Reuter bought the house as a holiday home Nymåla from the owners at the time, Håkan and Magnus Fahleryd. They are the sons of an elderly couple from Stockholm who had also used the house as a summer home until then.
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Coordinates: 57 ° 30 ′ 2.5 ″ N , 15 ° 55 ′ 14 ″ E