Engelsberg Ironworks
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How it came to be
At Engelsberg in central Sweden, farmers mined and smelted iron ore as a sideline. Waterwheels to drive furnaces, bellows and forge hammers made the Swedish iron industry grow fast, and a forge was working here by the late 16th century. In 1681 the county sheriff Per Larsson Gyllenhöök built a blast furnace for pig iron.
The present blast furnace was built in 1778-1779, together with an ore crusher and a large charcoal store. A new blowing engine in 1836 raised output sharply, and a gas-fired kiln for roasting ore followed in 1848. In the 17th and 18th centuries Sweden's high-grade iron made it a world leader in iron production.
Axel Ax:son Johnson bought the works in 1916, found them uneconomic and closed them in 1919. More than 50 buildings survive, from the main house of about 1750 to a barn of slag stone from 1872. Engelsberg became a national monument in 1974 and was inscribed in 1993.
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