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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)

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Uploaded on August 24, 2020
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