Lövstabruk

Lövstabruk
Lövstabruk
State :	Sweden
Province  (län):	Uppsala län
Historical Province (landskap):	Uppland
Municipality  :	Animal p
Coordinates :	60 ° 24 '  N , 17 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 60 ° 24 '  N , 17 ° 53'  E
SCB code :	S1001
Status:	Småort
Residents :	96 (December 31, 2015)
Area :	0.33 km²
Population density :	291 inhabitants / km²

Lövstabruks manor house

Lövstabruk

Lövstabruk (formerly Leufsta bruk ) is a place ( småort ) in Österlövsta socken in the municipality of Tierp with around 100 inhabitants. Lövstabruk has an internationally known Walloon hut - an ironworks in which, in the past, mostly Walloons were employed. The village has, among other things, the Lövstabruk manor house and church. There is a famous Cahman organ in the church .

In earlier times Lövstabruk was known to a large extent for iron processing. The ironworks was located where Risforsån is today and already had two smelting furnaces and three large forge hammers (Walloon forge) in 1660 . During the De Geers era , Lövstabruk was the largest ironworks in the country.

history

The Lövstabruk manor consists of a two-storey main building with two attached side wings. At some distance from these there are two semicircular wings. The buildings are made entirely of stone, in contrast to the wooden construction that is otherwise common in Sweden.

Where Lövstabruk is today, there was an iron processing industry in earlier times. The operators were farmers from the surrounding farms. These ironworks were called farmers' huts , in contrast to the Krono hut , which was a little further up the river. The Krono-Hütte was founded in 1601 and worked mainly for the Swedish krona. In 1626 Willem de Besche leased Olands härad (Härad = an old administrative and geographical division) including Lövsta and “Hållnäs socken”, Österbybruk and the hut of Lövstabruk from the Swedish state. In 1627 this contract was extended for six years for De Besche and Louis De Geer . In 1633 De Geer took over the lease of the ironworks from the Swedish crown alone. This was extended in 1636, 1639 and 1642. In 1643 he bought the Krono hut in Lövsta, Österby and the Gymo hut including many houses in Uppland from the property of the Krone. In 1646 the purchase contract was confirmed by Princess Christina when she came of age.

Louis de Geer's son, Emanuel De Geer , bought the above-mentioned farmer's hut in 1668 and built a furnace in Tobo . He put his grandson Charles De Geer (1660-1730) as heir over his entire fortune.

On July 25 and 26, 1719, the Russian fleet burned down Lövstabruk, including the church and pastor's house, as well as the nearest parishes in the course of the Russian devastation . Charles De Geer rebuilt both the ironworks and the manor and church. In his will he ordered that Lövstabruk, Åkerbys-Hütte and Karlholms-Hütte should go to his grandson, the future baron , Charles De Geer , and then always pass to his male descendants, similar to the ancestral right. In the time of Charles de Geer, Hillebolas , Strömsbergs , Västlands and Ullfors were combined with the parent company.

The company complex was held together at this time by his son, Chamberlain Charles De Geer (The Younger) (1747-1805). Since his son Carl De Geer (1781–1861) had no male offspring, the iron company and several other goods passed to his only daughter Charlotta (1813–1888), who was married to Count B.JE von Platen . However, the right of inheritance passed to Karl Emanuel De Geer (died unmarried in 1877). He handed over the successor from his brother Hofmarschall Freiherr Louis De Geer (d. 1887) to his son Freiherr Karl De Geer. The last forge in Lövstabruk was built in 1887 and was in operation until November 5, 1926.

railroad

On December 23, 1926, the northernmost stretch of the Roslagsbanan to Lövstabruk was opened. This happened about a month after the last forge closed. The northernmost stop of the railway was on the Risforsån river . Construction of a bridge began there, but it was never completed. You can still see the stone foundations from that time today. From the beginning it was planned that the station building should be north of Lövstabruk, from where a dead track led to the forge about a kilometer away.

A post office was also planned in this station building. The railway line should later be extended by 10 kilometers and lead to Fagerviken in Lövsta Bay. But because of the closure of the iron and steel works, these plans were never carried out. The dead track remained in its condition for 30 years and was demolished in 1956. The remains of the old embankment can still be seen today.

monument

The Lövstabruk manor and the adjacent park have been declared a monument and are managed by the State Real Estate Association ( Statens fastighetsverk in Swedish ).

Population development

year	Residents	Area in hectares
1900	783	unknown
1990	127	18th
2000	118	20th
2005	107	20th
2010	96	20th
2015	96	33

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Statistiska centralbyrån : Småorter 2015, byggnader, areal, överlapp tatorter, coordinater (Excel file)
2. ↑ Lövstabruk organ (Swedish)
3. ↑ Walloon forge - see p. 2 (Swedish, English, French) (PDF; 5.5 MB)
4. ↑ Lövstabruk Manor (Swedish)
5. ↑ Lövstabruk Ironworks (Swedish) ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Russian devastation - see p. 4 (Swedish, English, French) (PDF; 5.5 MB)
7. ↑ Monument - see p. 4 (Swedish, English, French) (PDF; 5.5 MB)