Lojsta

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Lojsta is a parish (Swedish socken ) on the Swedish island of Gotland . Lojsta is best known for the 150 km² "Lojsta hajd" (heather) and the semi-tame soot horses kept there in "Russparken" . Lojsta is historically interesting due to the Iron Age house Lojsta hall , the remains of the medieval fortress Castle of Lojsta from the 13th century, the church of Lojsta with nave and choir from the 13th century and a 1000-year-old oak , the oldest tree on Gotland . The name Lojsta is first mentioned as Løstum in 1422.

nature

In the vicinity of Lojsta is with 83  m ö.h. the highest point on Gotland Island. In the course of the post-glacial uplift, the first headland of Gotland emerged from the Baltic ice lake here 12,000 years ago . The area around Lojsta forms a hilly landscape that is untypical for Gotland and is characterized by small lakes, called Lojstasjöar , which represent the remainder of a large lake that disappeared due to the uplift of the land.

Lojsta hall

The Iron Age house Lojsta hall dates from around 0–500 AD. Gerda Boëthius and John Nilén dug the foundations of the Lojstahallen and dated the find, especially on the basis of the ceramics, to the younger Iron Age . Under the direction of Gerda Boëthius and John Minien, a hall was reconstructed in 1932. Its high canopy of reed grass that reaches to the ground is modeled on it. The rows of posts, the worn threshold stone and the hearth stones are original. All elements that assign the Iron Age hall to a central square . Despite its name, Lojsta hall is located in the neighboring parish of Stånga .

Lojsta slott

The dates found for the remains of the medieval fortifications Castle of Lojsta ( Swedish Lojsta slott ) go back to the 13th century. However, the strategic conditions were so favorable that predecessor systems are also possible here. The place is associated with the vitality brothers . Despite the name, you are in the neighboring parish of Stånga .

Lojsta Church

The church of Lojsta with nave and choir from the 13th century is of cultural and historical importance because of the wall and especially the glass paintings , the carved altar (reredos), the badly damaged baptismal font and the triumphal cross .

literature

  • Ulrich Quack: Gotland: the largest island in the Baltic Sea . DuMont, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7701-2415-4 .
  • Claus Ahrens: Reconstructed prehistoric times . Wachholtz, 1990.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Svenskt local dictionary . Språk- och folkminnesinstitutet, Uppsala 2003, ISBN 91-7229-020-X , p. 197.

Coordinates: 57 ° 19 '  N , 18 ° 22'  E