The Rademacher forges were built in the 1650s. The buildings are well preserved and various craftsmen are still working here.

The Swedish king Karl X Gustaf founded Swedish industry when, during the 1650s he built the Rademacher forges, the oldest industrial area in Sweden where craftsmen still are at work.

Try a guided tour, where you might meet the chain blacksmith Sundin himself, more often known as "Shout-Sundin". He loved to tease the authorities and he made the first wizard chain. He used it to fool different people who dared to challenge him. Do you dare?

The life in the Rademacher forges has not always been easy. With promises of riches and all sorts of privileges the king Karl X Gustaf enticed the business man Reinhold Rademacher from Livland to the forges.

Life was so hard for the people working there that many of them fled the sometimes inhuman conditions.

Reinhold Rademacher died disappointed and not very rich. The Rademacher forges however survived and are today a very popular tourist attraction in Eskilstuna.