Örebro Things to Do

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It is a rebuilt water tower and today it is a café, restaurant and they have daily exhibitions. It is 58 meters high and was built 1957. There is one copy in Saudi Arabia. It is free entrance to the tower. You have a very good view from here over Örebro. Outside it is a free parking place if you come with your car or motorcycle.

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This is a very famous and beautiful open air museum in Örebro. One of the tourist attractions you have to visit. In Wadköping you have some exciting musuems as Kungsstugan anad Cajsa Warg´s house from the 1700th century. you can find a place here which sell old books, and also a bakery

In the Middle Ages the castle was involved in warfare repeatedly, and up to 1568 it was besieged in all nine times. However, there was no question of any major alterations until the latter part of the 16th century.

In 1560, King Gustav Vasa’s youngest son, Karl (later King Karl IX of Sweden) began an ambitious extension- and rebuilding programme of the castle. The old stone stronghold was transformed into a magnificent Renaissance castle.
Even before the castle was finished, it was often used by both Karl IX and his son Gustav II Adolf. When the buiding work was finally completed in 1627, the state did not have any real use for it. The new monarchs preferred other residences, and slowly but surely Örebro Castle began to fall into disrepair.

It was not until 1758 that it was finally decided to begin repairs on the much decayed and almost uninhabitable castle.
Since an attack against the castle was no longer to be feared, all of the defences were removed. Instead, courtyards and terraces were laid out, and new stone bridges replaced the old wooden ones. Finally, the old caps on the towers were replaced with almost completely flat tin roofs. Inside, a beautiful apartment was fitted out which has ever since been the official residence of the County Governor of Örebro.

In 1897-1900 the castle was again renovated. Historical romanticism held sway in Sweden and the architect strove to create a synthesis of all the epochs of the castle. Here would indeed be recreated a castle worthy of having been the residence of such great men in Swedish history as Engelbrekt, Gustav Vasa and Gustav II Adolf.
Örebro Castle is one of several Vasa castles in Sweden. In a number of them the interiors have been better preserved, while Örebro was continually renovated to suit the times, which has been both good and bad. The successive rebuildings mean of course that there are few interiors preserved from bygone days, but on the other hand, Duke Karl’s old stone castle in the heart of Örebro is today a truly living and open castle.

This is the "Svarvarehuset" or the woodworker's house. You can go in here and see him at work, and also have and also browse around in the little shop where you can buy his work. Woodworking is not the only craft you can see here. You can also see blacksmith, painting and the silversmith and of course buy their work.

Mmmmm, doesn't it look mouth-watering delicious!! And I can tell you it tastes just as good as it looks! The bakery is not only a 'must see' visit, but also a 'must taste'! The cookies I tasted were fantastic!!! Hahaha, I even would consider driving all the way back to Örebro to try out some more delicious cookies and cakes that they sell here :-)

Not that far from the phone booth, there is a little road on the left hand side. This is where you can find the bakery of Wadköping. It looks very picturesque from the outside, but mmmm, wait until you get inside! See my next tip for all the mouth-watering things you can buy here!

This is a close up picture of the Cajsa Warg Hus. When you take a closer look like this you can see how crooked it is. I love that though, it looks so picturesque!

When I visited Wadköping the thing that questioned me most was why they moved all these houses to this area. But moving houses is nothing new. Old timbered houses have been moved ever since the middle Ages, but a project as big as Wadköping was something new.

In a part of Örebro there was an almost untouched timber quarter with narrow streets and twisting alleys. But the houses fell in decay over time and had little or no sanitation. They area was not very attractive to live in, and with the need of Örebro to have new housing and shopping areas, they decided that everything old was to be knocked down.
Luckily a campaign was started by the County Antiquarian, Bertil Waldén, to save at least some of the better old buildings. And that is how Waldköping started, a small quarter behind the city park on the banks of the River Svartån.

Wadköping is quite new, and at the same time very old. The open air museum of Wadköping exists since 1965, but the buildings are much older. In the village of Wadköping you can see a collection of ancient buildings from Örebro and the surrounding countryside. There are many 18th-century wooden houses in the traditional red colour, which you can still see a lot around in Sweden. Besides the red houses there are also lovely bright 19th-century wooden houses. They all have been moved to this site in the City Park, together with two museum buildings – the King’s House (16th century) and Cajsa Warg’s House (17th century).