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Meadow map
Pehr Widring1798
Nordiska Museet
Stockholm, Sweden
Tockenön (Tåkenön) Meadow map, 1798.
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- Title: Meadow map
- Creator: Pehr Widring
- Date Created: 1798
- Use: Tåkenön, Hjälmaren, Sweden
- More Information: Map describing division of hay-making duties on the island of Tockenön (Tåkenön). The map was produced in 1798 by Pehr Widring for the owner of Julita manor, Adam Palbitzki. The island is located in Lake Hjälmaren in southern Sweden. It was part of Julita manor from the 1180s and was used for pasture and meadow. The map shows how most of the island was hay meadow, and how homesteads that formed part of the manor were obliged to work for the main Julita manor cutting and gathering hay. The small reddish squares on the middle and left part of the map are the hay barns where the hay was stored until winter. When the ice formed on Lake Hjälmaren, it was possible to use sleds to fetch the hay for animal feed. Hay was used as winter fodder for the stabled animals, so it was this that determined how many animals a farm could have. The stabled animals' manure was collected during the winter and was later used to fertilise the fields in order to increase the yield of the cultivated crop. This gave rise to the Swedish expression “Äng är åkers moder” (the meadow is mother to the field), which illustrates that nutrition was taken from the meadows to feed the animals, which in turn gave manure required to cultivate the fields. The text on the map reads (in translation) Heading: Division map of Tockenön located in the parish of Julita, Södermanland. Measured in 1796 by the undersigned Pehr Widring at the request of the honourable Baron Adam Palbitzki. Description: Homestead name Section: 1. Hult with Låppasand, Tallmon and Kulan crofts. 2. Ramsnås 3. Gimmjöl 4. Påsbo 5. Kårtorp 6. Lilla Gamrå 7. Stora Gamrå 8. Brynstorp 9. Stockholm 10. Gertorp 11. Wäsby northern farm 12. Ib. Millangården 13. Wäsby eastern farm 14. Nybble western farm 15. Ibidem eastern farm 16. Berga southern farm 17. Ibidem central farm 18. Ibidem northern farm 19. Skendla 20. Kihl eastern farm 21. Kihl western farm 22. Djupanbo 23. Hellarå and Dagsjön 24. Hyttan and Engellbräktstugan 25. Knecktstugan and Kåhlstugan 26. An enclosed plot Croft fields Paddock Båtfålle
- Type: Agriculture
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