Dröstorp's deserted village

The area does not belong to the extreme barren alvar land, but here there is a more or less thick moraine blanket, together with wet areas. The area is also higher than the gravity in general and constitutes an altitude plateau. The village was built at the end of the 1600th century or the beginning of the 1700th century and can thus be said to be a historical neo-colonization of a marginal area. It was then abandoned at the end of the 1800th century and the village was left to decay. Two of the village's single cabins have been moved and are preserved in the neighboring villages of Smedsgärde and Skarpa Alby. The last person to live in the village at the end of the 1800th century was "Boman på Dröstorp", a former convict who, according to the rumor, was a "serious thief", that is, a cattle thief. Today, house grounds, alleyways, stone walls and a continuous field fence with plot boundaries remain. A strong string of stones stretches like a crescent out into the Dröstorpsmossen. The stone string was a fenced feedlot. Just southwest of the village site there are prehistoric graves in the form of stone deposits and mounds. They testify that people have also lived here during parts of the Iron Age. It is likely that the economy was also then based on livestock farming.