Korså Bruk is an interesting excursion destination with a rich history that today is an industrial monument. Work at the mill ceased in 1930 and the environments were preserved with gigantic water wheels. Today there is a small museum, a café open in the summer and a B&B.
Today there is a small museum that shows models of what it looked like in Korsån when the mill was in operation. There are also a number of tools and objects. Watch the fantastic film that rolls in the old laundry room, in the same building as the museum, about what Korså Ironworks looked like in the early 1900s. Also, don't miss out on visiting the cool water wheels with their large hammers and the old power station that is located nearby.
Korså Manor, where the ironmaster lived, has today been transformed into a bed and breakfast with a summer café. Korså Bruk is close to good swimming and fishing waters.
Pig iron was transported to the Korså ironworks where it was processed into malleable bar iron. From the 1840s and almost a hundred years on, blacksmiths in long white shirts did the heavy work. To this day, the hammers and the blower with large water wheels are preserved on the site.
This is what teacher Greta Möller describes growing up at the ironworks:
"We children used to sit in rows on the bench of the forge and watch the whole production as a wonderful spectacle. We saw charcoal and pig iron under the action of fire, and the spitting and breaking of the blacksmith turned into molten iron, which was forged under hammer after hammer into fine iron. We walked there on the blacksmith's hill among piles of bar iron and spelled out the strange addresses of Turkey and England."
Today there is a small museum that shows models of what it looked like in Korsån when the mill was in operation. There are also a number of tools and objects. Watch the fantastic film that rolls in the old laundry room, in the same building as the museum, about what Korså Ironworks looked like in the early 1900s. Also, don't miss out on visiting the cool water wheels with their large hammers and the old power station that is located nearby.
Korså Manor, where the ironmaster lived, has today been transformed into a bed and breakfast with a summer café. Korså Bruk is close to good swimming and fishing waters.
Pig iron was transported to the Korså ironworks where it was processed into malleable bar iron. From the 1840s and almost a hundred years on, blacksmiths in long white shirts did the heavy work. To this day, the hammers and the blower with large water wheels are preserved on the site.
This is what teacher Greta Möller describes growing up at the ironworks:
"We children used to sit in rows on the bench of the forge and watch the whole production as a wonderful spectacle. We saw charcoal and pig iron under the action of fire, and the spitting and breaking of the blacksmith turned into molten iron, which was forged under hammer after hammer into fine iron. We walked there on the blacksmith's hill among piles of bar iron and spelled out the strange addresses of Turkey and England."
