Mysinge

Windmills near Mysinge

prehistoric burial site near Mysinge

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

The less than 50 inhabitants (2005) counting village formed in the period from 2000 to 2005 together with the adjacent village just south Bengtstorp the Småort Mysinge och Bengtstorp . Together, the two villages had 50 inhabitants and an area of ​​39 hectares in 2000.

Road 136 leads through Mysinge. Mörbylånga is to the west of Mysinge and the barren Alvar landscape of Stora Alvaret extends to the east .

Mysinge is known for the Mysinge burial ground north of the village . The easternmost passage tombs in Europe are located here with the Resmo dolmen . The age of the four burial chambers is estimated to be around 5000 years. In addition to these Stone Age graves, there are many graves from the Bronze Age on the burial ground . The large burial mounds Mysinge Hög and Gynge Hög are particularly striking .

To the east of Mysinge, the Mysinge nature reserve stretches through the Stora Alvaret as a narrow band to the Möckelmossen wetland . South of the road that crosses Stora Alvaret from Resmo to Stenåsa is an Iron Age settlement. The foundations of houses originally standing here can still be seen.

literature

• Thorsten Jansson, Welcome to Stora Alvaret , Länsstyrelsen Kalmar län, Kalmar 1999, ISBN 91-973802-1-0 , page 18 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Småorternas areal, folkmängd och invånare ( Memento of the original dated November 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Coordinates: 56 ° 31 '  N , 16 ° 26'  E