Hello!
I hope someone with knowledge wants to look at my concern.
I plan to remove some walls to make the kitchen (which will be torn out and replaced with a new one at the same time) larger and achieve a more open floor plan. But I started to wonder if the walls are load-bearing since they cross the roof trusses? But maybe the house still holds even if something I remove/shorten is load-bearing?
A picture says more than 1000 words so I am linking to a few.

Walls that will be added and removed
https://www.bredbandsbolaget.se/portlet-b2-serviceportal/storage/b379122/Hus/Hus förändring plan.jpg
(The small room in the middle is a WC)

Floor joists
https://www.bredbandsbolaget.se/portlet-b2-serviceportal/storage/b379122/Hus/IMG_5557.JPG

Roof structure
https://www.bredbandsbolaget.se/portlet-b2-serviceportal/storage/b379122/Hus/IMG_5584.JPG

Roof truss
https://www.bredbandsbolaget.se/portlet-b2-serviceportal/storage/b379122/Hus/IMG_5585.JPG
 
None of the walls should be load-bearing, the truss from the front door to the toilet probably has no support, but it's hard to say since it's unclear how the trusses were calculated.

Protte
 
You're right about that. The house is from '65, could it be that the rafters only rest on the outer walls? The house is only about 8.5×12.5m.
 
I would not demolish without shoring up the ceiling and then reinforcing with, for example, a glulam beam. Those walls that go across the rafters support the ceiling.
 
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