Hedesunda

Hedesunda lies beside the lower Dalälven, where the river spreads into broad reaches among islands and wooded shores. Its medieval stone church replaced an earlier wooden building in the thirteenth century and was dedicated to St Michael. In the sixteenth century a brick star vault replaced its wooden ceiling; the church was enlarged in the seventeenth century. Continued structural difficulties and lack of space led the parish to build a new church around the old one in 1775.