Forsvik Factories VIII
(Swedish: Forsviks Bruk) The Worker's lodge, then 23 rooms (built in 1861). Nowadays a youth hostel. The traditional red paint contains pigment from the copper-mine in Falun, Dalecarlia.
600 years of industrial history: In 1410 Cecilia Jonsdotter Roos donated the Forsvik farm to the convent in Vadstena and when the monastery took it over there was already a flour mill on the farm.
The buildings in the factory area are listed buildings (Swedish: byggnadsminnen) and enjoy the strongest legal cultural and historical protection available.
www.forsviksbruk.se/en/industrial-societys-cultural-herit... (website also in English and German)
Forsvik Factories VIII
(Swedish: Forsviks Bruk) The Worker's lodge, then 23 rooms (built in 1861). Nowadays a youth hostel. The traditional red paint contains pigment from the copper-mine in Falun, Dalecarlia.
600 years of industrial history: In 1410 Cecilia Jonsdotter Roos donated the Forsvik farm to the convent in Vadstena and when the monastery took it over there was already a flour mill on the farm.
The buildings in the factory area are listed buildings (Swedish: byggnadsminnen) and enjoy the strongest legal cultural and historical protection available.
www.forsviksbruk.se/en/industrial-societys-cultural-herit... (website also in English and German)