Västmanlands län
You are now standing near the ridge that gave Arboga its name. Arbughi or åbåge as the word åkrök comes from. On the northern side of the ridge, today's memorial grove, trade was conducted with goods and slaves and councils were also held there. In connecti…
**Council House The Town Hall was originally built in the 1470s as a church, the Church of the Holy Spirit, Helgeandskyrkan. The Reformation Diet of 1527 in Västerås made the state the owner of the church. In 1531 Gustav Vasa handed over Helgeandskyrkan to…
Halvarsborgen is an ancient castle consisting of a stone rampart. The Stone Age map shows that it was possible to travel here on several waterways from Lake Hjälmaren and a connection to Lake Mälaren made it possible to get out to sea. Arboga did not exist…
Västerlånggatan Arboga is regarded as one of the most beautiful wooden towns in Sweden. And if you walk along Västerlånggatan, on it's cobblestone street, which is one of the oldest in Sweden, and behold the history-filled houses it's not hard to understand…
När du står på parkeringen vid badet med ryggen vänd mot entrén så ser du ut över den viktigaste platsen i Arboga under asatrons tid. Den är ett landmärke såväl i Arbogas forntid som idag. Här sammanstrålar åsar, slätter och vattenvägar. Till vänster om åk…
The large pink building you see here was built in the second half of the 19th century, it is the last building left that has a direct connection to the blacksmithing activities that were carried out at Jädersbruk until the 1920s. The workshop is built in a…
You are now standing at Hammarsmedsgården, the home of the mill's hammermasters and their families. The property was built around 1870 and the building material is an unusual standing brick called half-stone brick with air channels between the bricks and ci…
On a map from 1766 this place is mentioned as Mäster Olof Rosendahls gårdsplats. Master Olof was a master blacksmith who lived here with his family, which consisted of his wife Maria Olsdotter Broberg and their 5 children, 3 sons and 2 daughters. The farmst…
Denna mycket vackra Kraftstation uppfördes 1914, då elektrifieringen av Sverige pågick som mest intensivt. Tegelfasaden med dess välvda rödmålade fönster utgör ett smycke i kulturlandskapet. Redan 1943 hade behovet av el ökat så att en höjning av dammen sam…
This very beautiful so-called "Overflow Building" was probably built sometime in the 18th century and has a unique and very unusual construction with a gigantic floor and an unusual wall construction that holds up the roof with the broken gable ends. East o…
15 m high water tower which, as far as we know, was built in the 1880s. It is built in so-called slag brick made from slag, which is a residual product from iron production. Many old houses in Bergslagen have this building material. Even in the past, it was…
Concrete foundations in front of you have been the foundation of the whole forge and the support for the shaft that held the big Water Wheel in the river. At the other end, it drove the Mumbling Hammer that worked the iron in the forge. Listen carefully and…
The farm forge you see here symbolizes the place where it all began when Gustav Vasa decided that a weapons factory should be built on Jäders holme to provide the Swedish armed forces with a uniform arsenal according to the European model. In 1551, Gustav V…
This water-powered mill was built in the 1880s when the mill was very active. Here, local farmers queued to grind their grain into flour. This flour was then sold in the village shop across the road. Listen carefully and you can hear impatient horses waitin…
