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Engelsberg Ironworks - World Heritage Site

October 30th 2014
Engelsberg - one of Sweden's World Heritage Sites Sweden's World Heritage sites includes marvelous architecture, such as the Hanseatic Town of Visby and Drottningholm Palace, wonderful nature, such as the High Coast and Laponia, and historical sites, such as the Viking Town Birka and Tanum Rock Carvings. This blog entry however is about one of the lesser known and consequently als ... read more

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A military power during the 17th century, Sweden has not participated in any war in almost two centuries. An armed neutrality was preserved in both World Wars. Sweden's long-successful economic formula of a capitalist system interlarded with substant... ... read more

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Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

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We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden. We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them. Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are Angel Falls in Ven... full info

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11th November 2014

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Tara Cloud

Great old machinery!
First, I love that you are exploring and blogging about your own Sweden--and this is such an interesting look into the past. Second, I really love that the owner recognized the historical importance of the site and preserved things for a museum instead of selling the land for money--what a hero! Interesting buildings in a beautiful setting. Incidentally, I wonder if the washing house and bakery may have been together because they both used heat, which maybe wasn't used in all the other buildings (just a guess).

12th November 2014

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Washing house + bakery
Having the washing house and bakery in the same house because they both needed heat makes sense. In those two businesses only women worked. When the businesses used the same building the women could have their own little women club there /Ake

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