History of Holidayescapes

In 2019 we found this farm that we felt we could develop into something amazing. We wanted to preserve as much of the old environment as possible, but unfortunately we had to demolish the old manor house because it was in such poor condition. We reused all the materials that were fresh for the other buildings. Our interest in the old and the history of Holidäyescäpe was also born here.

In 1861, the first farmhouse was built at Holidäyescäpes. It was a place of agriculture and livestock. We focus our story on 3 brothers and their mother who lived at Kläpphagen in the early 1900s, the great fisherman Rudolf, the thinker Hjalmar, the pious Reinhold and the pious mother Charlotta. In 1901, the ELIM Baptist congregation was formed, with the devout Charlotta playing the first violin. It was not only in the church that she was devoted, but she inspired faith in all the people around her. So much so that his son Oskar became a preacher and Reinhold a missionary. It is said that when Reinhold was plowing the field in the port marsh, he had a so-called revelation that he would become a missionary. So he left the plow and went home with his horse, and then he went to the mission school in Örebro. There he studied diligently and devotedly for a couple of years before going to the Belgian Congo in Africa and working as a missionary. After years of work and struggle with the so-called untamed savages, he came home for a visit. He brought with him various souvenirs such as crossbows with poisoned arrows, spears and jungle knives. The poison arrows and crossbow were immediately donated to the Strömstad Museum, as they were considered too dangerous to keep in the house with three resourceful boys. On Sundays, when the others on the farm were at church, the youngsters would take the opportunity to throw darts with the spear. A few years after his visit to Holidäyescäpes, Reinhold died of acute blood poisoning in the Belgian Congo.

Hjalmar, who was supposed to run the farm, was more interested in literature and music. He was an intellectual and wrote many magazine articles, and his sweet tones brought pleasure to the common man’s ear. Rudolf was the only one of the children who did not become religious, instead devoting his life to fishing on the boat Freden. Fortunately, Rudolf had found a good girl for a wife, Signe, who managed the farm in an exemplary manner with the help of Hjalmar and the children. When Rudolf could not cope with fishing, they continued to run the farm for a few years, but on a smaller and smaller scale until the end of the 1950s when the last animals were sold.

Evert Taube, who loved holidays, walked past Holidäyescäpes one day and was struck by its beauty and felt that he would like to live here. He wanted to buy the whole breed, but he couldn’t do it. So Holidäyescäpes remained in the hands of the brothers, which is perhaps fortunate, because otherwise we would not own the farm today.