Rotegång ('walk the parish') or kringgång ('walk around') was a historical form of care for the poor in the history of Sweden to support the very poorest in the peasant community.
Rotegång was practiced in the Swedish countryside already in the Middle Ages to care for those of the community destitute who could not work.
[1] This method was a phenomenon of the countryside, as the city paupers were normally given shelter in the poor houses from at least circa 1300 onward.
[2] Those of the destitute fattighjon (pauper) who could not be placed in a backstuga or in a poor house, which did not always exist in rural communities, were referred to the rotegång.
The pauper was assigned a fattigklubba ('poor club') or fattigbricka ('poor badge') of wood as a sign of their status, where the schedule was described.