Linde

Linde grew around a church and market on a ridge beside Lindessjön, serving the mines and furnaces of its Bergslagen district. The parish is recorded in the fourteenth century, and the settlement became known as Lindesås. In 1643 it received town privileges and the name Lindesberg. Fire devastated the new town the next year, though the church survived; another fire damaged its tower in 1688. Mining and ironworking continued to draw people to the lake and its trading place.