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Bäckaby

Coordinates: 57°16′04″N 14°55′33″E / 57.26778°N 14.92583°E / 57.26778; 14.92583
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Bäckaby
village
Photo of the stone church, date unknown
Photo of the stone church, date unknown
Bäckaby is located in Sweden
Bäckaby
Bäckaby
Coordinates: 57°16′04″N 14°55′33″E / 57.26778°N 14.92583°E / 57.26778; 14.92583
Country Sweden
ProvinceSmåland
CountiesJönköping
Population
 • Total
232
Time zoneCET
 • Summer (DST)CEDT

Bäckaby is a small village south of Vetlanda in the southern Swedish province of Småland. Bäckaby has a stone church, a kindergarten, a summer café and a small hostel called Plymska Huset. Bäckaby's old church was a wooden church which was moved to Jönköping in 1902. Its oldest parts were from the 14th century. The church was burnt to the ground in 2000.