Agriculture and ownership in Viby

Agriculture in Viby has developed at an increasingly rapid pace since the first farmers immigrated. I have chosen to follow the development up to 1688 when the first map of all the farms in Viby was drawn.

The ownership of the land has always been an important influencing factor for the development of agriculture. Ownership has been special in Viby since the Middle Ages. The owners have been people close to the royal power who did not live in Viby but ran the farms via trustees.