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The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent anyone else's view in any way, including those of my employer.
© Copyright 2009
The Arsta ladys real name was Märta Helena Reenstierna (1753-1841) and she lived here (1775-1841) with her husband Henrik Christian von Schnell (1733-1814. They were mainly growing tobacco on the land area belonging to the residence. It says the founder of Stockholm, Birger Jarl (1210-1266) has also lived here. Märta Helena were riting a diary which has been a great source of documentation from that time. Her diary is now kept at the Nordic Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.
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[...] The trees surrounding the graveyard was donated to the church by Märta Helena Reenstierna (The Årsta lady). She was a frequent visitor of the church and a good friend of the priest in that time. She was very concerned about the pigs walking freely around near the church since they could destroy the tree plants. She wrote three letters to the priest about the plants to make sure of they were taken care of and didn’t get damaged. [...]
[...] This is the family grave of Märta Helena Reenstierna and her husband Henrik Christian von Schnell and their children. The family grave had its place inside Brännkyrka church from the beginning but was moved with their buried children in 1802 to its present position. It was quite hard to locate the grave but I had some help from visitors at the cemetery with knowledge about the history and the family grave. [...]
[...] If you follow Göta country road crossing The Årsta field you will walk over this bridge from the 18′th century. The bridge crosses Valla stream. There’s not much water in it nowadays but for about 100 years ago it was quite a good stream. There were even plans transporting timber in the stream but Märta Helena Reenstierna (the Årsta lady) didn’t like those plans so she stopped them. [...]