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The ruins of the Riseberga nunnery	Parishes in Närke A quick guide to places worth seeing or visiting and some local history. By communities. The province of Närke and the website A brief introduction.	Iron mills, manors and big farms The king and his councel supported from the 16th century and onwards large scale business in metal mining and production as well as in farming. This part of the site is about the growth of such units in the province of Närke.	The manor of Skyllberg
Hällabrottet and Yxhult Mining and working-up of limestone took place on different locations in Närke already in the middle ages but most prominently in Hällabrottet in the parish of Kumla. Yxhultbygdens Kultur- och hembygdsförening, which is a society for preserving the relics from the old days and for documenting the local history, started out a few years ago. Yxhult AB is a company founded back in the late 1800's and operating primarily in Hällabrottet.		Lekebergslagen The northwestern part of Närke (Lekebergslagen) was in ancient times an important player in Swedish iron ore mining and milling. The business was carried out in small units owned and operated by local people on a cooperative basis.	Typical farm building from the late 1700's and 1800's
The Bergöö House in Hallsberg	Karin Bergöö Larsson The society Karin Larsson Bergöö's friends is preserves the memory of Karin, wife of the famous Swedish painter Carl Larsson. Karin, herself a painter, grew up in Hallsberg in Närke.	Communities and tourist bureaus in the county of Örebro Närke and a corner of Västergötland constitute the southern part of the county of Örebro. The northern part is located in the landscape of Västmanland.	The castle of Örebro
The explotation of the woods of Tiveden In the early 1600's Tiveden was a large area of woods and modest mountains with very few permanent inhabitants. The main road, or rather path, from Stockholm via the province of Närke down to the province of Västergötland led through the region where the only shelter was a small monastery operated by the orden of Saint Anthony. Anders Boij, scotsman by origin but then citizen of Stockholm, started several iron mills in the region.		Links to a number of socities for localhistory in the province of Närke as well as private people publishing information on local history.	The parish church of Edsberg
Emigration to North America The emigration from Närke was on a large scale during some years in the late 1800's. To some extent it offered an alternative when the old small iron mills in a short period of time closed down due to new technology and largescale production units. August Eriksson, born 1866, however came from Asker i eastern Närke. For more than 30 years did he maintain correspondence with his brother in Sweden, who was a shoemaker. In his first letter back to Sweden August tells about his prosperous journey. In a later letter he describes his work as factory worker 1902.