enskiftet was initiated in the province of scania by carl gideon wadman at the estate svaneholm castle, owned by rutger macklean. in 1785, macklean had the 701 villagers of his estate evicted and forced to relocate their homes on the new land he divided to them. the experiment was deemed to successful, that the government enforced it in the entire province in 1803. in 1807, the reform was enforced in the entire sweden-finland. in practice, however, the reform was never as thoroughly enforced in other provinces as it was in scania, and in finland, the reform was not quite given the time to be introduced until the finnish war.