Christmas Market at the Bosjökloster
A large number of exhibitors show their handicraft in a beautiful and carefully preserved castle environment during the weekend November 30 – December 3.
No one knows exactly when Bosjökloster was founded, but most of those who have investigated its history assume that it was about 1080 A. D. It was the Benedictine Order that built this nunnery on the shore of Lake Ringsjön
During the Christmas Market Days you can find Christmas specialties in the food court and visit the Christmas shop in the “Red House”. Exhibitors will be in the castle, stables and vaults. Everyday there will be Christmas Music Performance in the nearby church. Join in the Christmas gift hunt and take a ride in a pony-drawn cart.
The oldest document in which Bosjökloster is mentioned is a bull from Pope Lucius in 1181, in which he confirms the convent’s privileges. When the Reformation in the 16th century came to Skåne, which then was Danish, the nunnery was closed down. But even today there are many relics from the time of the nuns at Bosjökloster, among them the original vaults – once the nun’s refectory-, the church, which is still attended by the local population, ruins of the penitential chapel, the little churchyard where the nuns lie buried under simple stones, and the Thousand Year Old Oak, which still comes into leaf every year in the park.
Link to weekend package in this area.