Orebro Castle

Orebro Castle is a medieval fort fortification in Örebro, Närke, Sweden. It was extended for the duration of the reign of the royal family Vasa and subsequently rebuilt about 1900. The fortress lies on an island in river Svartan. Some of the rooms are used as lecture rooms for pupils from Karolinska Skolan. For over seven-hundred years, Orebro Castle has kept a watchful eye on all of us crossing the bridge on the River Svartan. The oldest part of the citadel, a defence tower, become erected within the latter half of the 13th century.

This tower changed into added to inside the 14th century to make a larger stronghold, and toward the quit of the sixteenth century maximum of the fantastic castle we see nowadays turned into constructed. The name of Orebro comes from the small stones, known as "ör" in Swedish, that a river transports. The second a part of the word comes from the bridge that became built over this fjord. Important roads surpassed via this strategic region because from right here one may want to manipulate the visitors and the exchange in the internal components of Sweden.