Tiondebod älvdalen

Tiondeboden i Ingatorp is at the same time the second oldest wooden building in Sweden and is only surpassed by the approximately ten years older Granhults Kyrka. The barn, in contrast to the church and all other similarly old wooden structures in Sweden, is the one that has hardly changed in the course of its existence and is still almost completely in its original medieval condition.

The tithe barn of Ingatorp

Although the medieval barn is considered a secular building, because it was not directly involved in the religious worship, it still had a close connection with the church. As a tithe barn, it was used to store the so-called "tithing" – the customary levy in the Middle Ages, in which the peasants paid a tenth of their income as a tax. In the case of Ingatorp, the charge served primarily to support the village pastor and the church, and to provide for the poor and the sick.

The barn, whose appearance has a certain similarity with similar old church buildings due to the height and the steep pitched roof, is built in log construction and completely covered with red painted wooden shingles from the outside. Normally, wood shingles only last about y