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HARGS BRUK
(THE HARG WORKS.)
Export agents: Carl Setterwall & Co. A. B., Stockholm.
Works produce Dannemora Walloon Iron, branded; low-phosphorous
Dannemora Lancashire Rough bars, branded, and timber. They
are situated about 120 kms. (72 english miles) north of Stockholm at Harg station
on the Dannemora-Harg Railway. - The nearest export harbour is Hargshamn,
close to the works. Shipments can also be made from Stockholm and Gothenburg.
The Works consist of 2 hearths for Walloon-iron, 1 bar-iron forge, 4 Lancashire
hearths, one welding furnace, 6 hammers and heavy rollings mills, one saw mill with
two frames, one edging bench, one shingles saw, one planing-mill, one dairy, one flour
mill and a farm. They are also part owners of the Dannemora mines.
The history of Harg dates from the middle of the seventeenth century, when it is
first mentioned. Count Gustaf Otto Stenbock, the Lord, then High Admiral, received
permission from the Board of Mines in 1668 to erect forges and blast-furnaces, the licence being in all perpetuity for himself and his heirs. The Works were built by Isak Mackey, an ironmaster, who rented them for the six years during whieh freedom from taxation was stipulated. They were then let to Henrik Insen, a Stockholm-merchant, who was afterwards made a nobleman under the name of Instenstjerna, and, after his death, to his son-in-law Karl Broman, a judge, who, at the beginning of the eighteenth century,
became the owner of Harg by gradually buying shares in the estates from Count
Stenbock’s children. The heirs of Judge Broman sold the works in 1729 to Baron Erik
Oxenstierna, an official in the Swedish War Office, who was the real founder of Harg as
it is to-day. He went to great expense in organising the Works and made Harg an entailed
estate. Baron C. J. Beck-Friis, Oxenstierna’s great-great grandson, is now owner of
the Harg Works, which have lately been extended, rebuilt and partly electrified. -
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