Hängengården

[John Ostrom]

One of the old family farms of my ancestors was in the north of Sweden and called Hängengården.
I belive Hängen refers to the leafy stem pattern of a willow or birch flower. Is this what they were naming their farm after? What is the closet meaning of the term Hängengården? This farm would have been built around the year 1800 in Åbyn, Byske and was the Hemgård of member of parliament, riksdagsman Per Lundström and was also known as Hängna.

[berit nightingale]

Hi John,
Hängen is the plural form of catkin, the scaly  
spike of flowers on poplars, walnuts and birches  
and I doubt the name refered to that.
The word hängna means fence or surround with a  
fence which seems more like it.
Berit

[John Ostrom]

Thanks Berit, the large property was indeed surrounded by a long wooden picket fence with a wagon wheel type spoke pattern on it's gates.