Gösslunda

In the middle of the Stora Alvaret

Gösslunda is a village belonging to the municipality of Mörbylånga on the Swedish island of Öland in the Baltic Sea .

The village with fewer than 50 inhabitants (as of 2005) is located in the middle of the Stora Alvaret in the southern part of the island. Gösslunda can only be reached via a dead end road from the road that crosses the Alvar between Bårby and Alby north of the village .

Gösslunda is one of the oldest villages in Öland. It is believed that Gösslunda has been continuously inhabited for 2000 years.

South of the village is from the Bronze Age dating Roese (cairn) Gösslunda röjr . To the west of the village is the Gösslunda nature reserve .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Thorsten Jansson, Welcome to Stora Alvaret, Kalmar 1999, ISBN 91-973802-1-0 , page 19

Web links

• Runestone on the church
• Information about the nature reserve and map of the area (Swedish)

Coordinates: 56 ° 29 '  N , 16 ° 32'  E