Gränge

Gränge belongs to the iron-bearing country of southern Dalarna, near the mining district of Grängesberg. Ore was worked here from the sixteenth century, and the locality appeared under the name Nyberget in a seventeenth-century record. The mines formed part of Bergslagen, where the extraction and smelting of iron drew on the surrounding forests and watercourses. Small workings in this inland landscape preceded the much larger mining settlement that would grow in later times.