Engelsberg Ironworks

"This site is the best preserved and most complete example of a Swedish ironworks, which produced the superior grades of iron that made Sweden a leader in this field in the 17th and 18th centuries." (source: UNESCO)

   

The Blast Furnace in Engelsberg is one of the few preserved furnaces of this kind in Sweden. The furnace stack was insulated with earth surrounded by a timber construction. A furnace on this site is known since the end of the 16th century. The present furnace was rebuilt in 1778-79, but received its present shape at the end of the 19th century.

An ore crusher was built in the middle of the 19th century.

Production was closed down in 1919.

The so called Manor Forge was first built on this site in 1624 and was rebuilt in 1840-45 when it received its present appearance

The pig iron was refined in Lancashire hearths. The charges were broken into pieces using the smelting hammer. After further heating, the smelt ingots were forged into bar iron in the stretching hammer.

Tools were manufactured and repaired in the small smithy.

   
A big scale that were used to weigh the iron. The manor house was built 1746 on the site of an an older house.
   
The eastern wing contained the kitchen