Oppunda

Oppunda is a district of inland Södermanland, among lakes, fields and wooded ridges. At Julita, beside Lake Öljaren, Cistercian monks established an abbey whose estates extended across the surrounding countryside. The monastery became a notable religious and landholding centre in medieval Sweden. Following the Reformation, its monastic property passed to the crown, and the former abbey lands became an estate. Its history joins the rural district to the wider changes in Swedish church and royal authority.