Örebro - St Nicholas's Church

In the center of the Örebro is the main square (Stortorget). At the west end of the square stands St Nicholas's Church (Nikolaikyrka; 18th C.), in which the French Marshal Bernadotte was chosen as heir to the throne in 1810. The church also contains the tomb of the legendary national hero Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, a bronze statue of whom (by Carl Gustav Qvamström, 1865) can be seen opposite the church in front of the neo-Gothic Town Hall (1856-62).