Second Church

Church with meter-thick walls from the 1100th century is the most engaged church of marriage in the contract. The church is probably one of the first churches in eastern Smaland.
The name Tveta is believed to derive from the ancient Swedish word thve, which means unclaimed place or carvings in the forest. The site of the church has since the heathen times been a cult site where people sacrificed and blotted. In all likelihood, a sacrificial church was in honor of Oden here during the heathen times. In the vicinity of the church there are two sources of sacrifice: the source of Odens and Thor.

The church was a gathering place for sailors at the time Emån was sailable. When our country was Christianized, they came all the way from Öland and Östergötland to baptize their children here.

The church is a towerless simple Romanesque building. Of the church that was erected in the 1100th century remains the longhouse, built of meter-thick stone walls. The church was destroyed by the Danes in 1567, after which the church was expanded, even this time in stone. The gun house in knot timber was probably built in the 1600th century. In 1726 extensions were made, a sacristy in stone and a five-sided choir in reclining timber. The stately gothic belfry was erected in 1662, probably a copy of the medieval belfry which had stood there before.

The church's oldest furniture consists of two wooden saint figures: St Mikael from the 1200th century and St Mary with the child from the 1400th century. A primeval bell and a processional cross from the 1400th century are preserved, as is the iron-clad church door from the 1200th century, now as a door to the sacristy. The remains of the old baptismal font from the 1200th century are also preserved.

During the renovation of the church's facade in 1993, strange ship carvings were discovered. They represent two cogs from the 1200th century. Similar ship carvings have previously only been found on Gotland and Öland. None of the carvings are completely complete. Because of the plaster waste, the mast is missing from one ship while the other lacks the front part of the stiffener and probably the upper part of the rudder.

In the trimming of the facade, the medieval method of sanding the plaster has been used. Then the facade has regained the plaster character that the church probably had 700 years ago. In Linköping diocese, Tveta church and Törnfall church are the only remaining medieval churches that are still in use in northern Kalmar county.