Nora

Nora lies beside Lake Norasjön in the mining district of Bergslagen. Its church village became a trading centre for iron and supplies, drawing on ore deposits and forests that furnished charcoal for the furnaces. The crown sought to organise the region's trade through new towns and waterways in the seventeenth century.

A plan to move the people of Nora and Linde to a new town at Järle met resistance, and the proposed network of canals and locks was never completed. Instead Nora received town privileges in 1643 and a regular street plan the following year. A fire in 1731 destroyed almost the whole wooden town, leaving the church damaged but standing. The inhabitants rebuilt, and a revised plan was approved in 1733 around the buildings already rising again.