Öijared Resort " About Öijared " A historic place
A historic place
Öijared manor dates back to the 16th century and history has left its mark. There are ancient monuments such as rock cists, prehistoric barrows and cathedral rings, some thirty small crofts from the 18th century, and pastures with fencing.
Öijared Manor
The farm buildings consist of a simple manor house from the 17th century, two wings, stables, outbuildings and the farm chapel in the extension of the avenue. The farm buildings are beautifully situated on the shores of Mjörn and the surrounding pastures. The history of the farm can be traced back to the early Middle Ages, at the time of King Stenkil (about 1065 AD).
The owner of the farm was the Pik family and it was called Pikenborg. At the beginning of the 16th century, the Ulfsparre family owned the farm. Öijared remained in the Ulfsparre family for almost 150 years. At the beginning of the 18th century, one of Charles XII's generals, Baron Georg Reinhold Pattkull, took over the estate, but he soon sold it to Sebastian Tham, a municipal councilor from Gothenburg. In 1749, the buildings at Öijared partially burned down and the manor house and the farm buildings that were still in use were restored.
Öijared Säteri became a fideikomiss through marriage in the early 1800s. This meant that the old law on the estate's statutory inheritance to the eldest son only ceased after the last fideikommissary had passed away, which happened when Sten-Gustav Adlerstierna-Adelskiöld's widow Ulla died childless in 1985. Only in that year could Öijared Säteri be acquired under Swedish law by anyone other than relatives of the previous owner, which is why the estate made it possible to acquire the "untitled" after more than 350 years of noble ownership.
In the 1980s, a new family moved into Öijared when the Brandström family bought the farm. Soon there was a desire to make changes to the land and environment. Öijared has been carefully restored, and alongside cultural conservation, forestry and hunting are practiced. There is also a strong commitment to creating opportunities for universities, businesses and public organizations to contribute to knowledge about the relationship between nature, culture and health.
A cultural jewel
A small wooden chapel was built on the chapel hill near Säteriet in the 16th century. For almost a hundred years the chapel stood on the same spot. At the end of the 17th century, Carin Bielke had the chapel moved from the chapel hill, where it stands today, to a place very close to the main building of the manor as a wing.
The chapel was moved back to its present location on the chapel hill in the 18th century, probably during the days of Major General Claes-Reinhold Patkull. Beautiful oil paintings from the early and middle 18th century adorn the walls and interior.
Carin Bielke
Carin Bielke (1599 - 1695) was the daughter of the councillor Clas Bielke and in 1623 she married into the Ulfsparre family and moved to Öijared, which she had received as a gift. After the death of both her husband and their 7 children, she made her hourglass-shaped bonad "Sorgekalk", a short story about her fate that became popular and was printed in several editions in the 18th and 19th centuries. Carin also spent a lot of time and money helping her relatives and the people on the farm. She also started teaching the children of the employees. At the age of 63, Carin married Harald Stake, who was governor of Bohus Fortress. Carin also survived Stake, and after his death she lived for another eighteen years before passing away herself.
Carin Bielke's small private pew is at the front of the chapel she once had built. On the bench is her coat of arms and the year 1631.
At the Säteriet
On the second floor of the Säteriet is the Gubb Hall, so called because all the family portraits used to sit there. During Sten-Gustaf's time, the old 19th century wallpaper was torn off and the original log walls with their beautiful paintings were revealed.
The floor consists of wide untreated planks and the doors still have their original fittings. Today, the floor is covered with a knotted carpet with the same pattern as the wall paintings. Among the furnishings is a pull-out bed from the 18th century.
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The crofters lived in the crofts, which ran their small plots of land and did day work for the landowner. They also used the forest and water for berries, mushrooms and fish. Today there are around thirty crofts from the 17th and 19th centuries that are now mainly summer crofts. They still have their cultural environment with pastures, fences with fencing and care trees.
Historical boundaries have partly changed over the years with ownership. Merged lands through marriage created an extensive land area in the 17th century all the way down to Lödöse during Carin Bielke's marriage to Harald Stake.