Hammerdal

Hammerdal lies beside Hammerdalssjön in northern Jämtland. A church stood here in the Middle Ages, and a stone church was built on a promontory by the lake in 1590. Its parish served a wide countryside of forests, lakes and scattered farms. At the time Jämtland belonged to the Norwegian crown; the Treaty of Brömsebro transferred the province to Sweden in 1645, changing the frontier around this northern parish.