Söderfors bruk

Timeline

1. 1690

   Manor house

   The manor house of the works was raised as a two-storey timbered building in Carolean style, roofed with shingle over a säteri profile. The log body stayed when the house was rebuilt in the 1750s, a campaign that panelled the walls and… Read more

2. 1749-1756

   Facade

   The manor house was remodelled to Carl Hårleman's design. The walls were panelled, the roof was replaced with a mansard roof carrying eleven dormers, and a bell tower was set on it. Two wings were added and stood finished before 1753. The… Read more

   Carl Hårleman

3. 1776

   Widows' house

   A house for the widows of the works' labourers was built under Anna Johanna Grill the elder. It kept that use until 1916 and then held archives until 1993, so the building stayed in service for more than two centuries under two quite… Read more

4. 1784-1797

   English park and Greek temple

   An English park was laid out from 1784 under Adolf Ulric Grill, with canals, gravel walks, the Rundbron bridge and garden pavilions. A Greek temple modelled on the temple of Theseus in Athens was raised between 1795 and 1797 and closed the… Read more

5. 1786

   Anchor forge and Grillska huset

   The smaller anchor forge, built in slag stone, and the building for the natural history cabinet were raised in the same year. The forge worked anchor iron on the site, while the cabinet building, later known as Grillska huset, held the… Read more

6. 1802

   Gamla Värdshuset

   A rendered slag stone building with marked quoins was put up on Stallgatan to Gustaf af Sillén's design and served as the inn of the works. A carriage shed in the same material followed on the site in 1814 and repeated the material of the… Read more

   Gustaf af Sillén

7. 1803-1804

   Restoration

   The temple in the English park was repaired. Its earlier wooden posts were taken down and replaced with columns laid up in brick and rendered, which gave the building a more durable colonnade less than a decade after it was finished.

   Gustaf af Sillén

8. 1807-1808

   Wing of Grillska huset

   The building of the natural history cabinet was extended with a wing set at an angle to the original block. The addition enlarged the house later known as Grillska huset, which had been raised two decades earlier in the same year as the… Read more

9. 1992

   Conversion

   The anchor forge was restored and reopened. The slag stone building of 1786 was given a new use and has since held an exhibition on the history and work of the ironworks instead of a working smithy.