utlandsbruk
Utlandsbruk is a historical term in Swedish agrarian history that refers to an outlying land unit linked to a larger farm or estate. The word combines utland, meaning “outland” or distant land, with bruk, meaning a farm, estate, or landholding. The concept appears in estate inventories, tax records, and historical studies as a way to describe land that was not situated on the main farmstead but remained under the ownership or administration of the same estate.
An utlandsbruk functioned as a separate farming unit within the broader estate system. It was often managed
Historically, utlandsbruk was more common in periods when large estates and rural economies required flexible use