Enkoping Attractions

50km/30mi southwest of Uppsala and 34km/21mi east of Västerås, on the Enköpingså, is Enköping (pop. 34,000), whose economy depended until the middle of the 19th century on craft production and the growing of herbs and spices (earning it the name of the "horse-radish town"). From the 1880s onwards some of the craft workshops developed into small industrial firms and new firms were established, mainly in the engineering field. As a result a large proportion of the population is now employed in industry. After a great fire in 1799 the town was rebuilt on a rectangular plan, which is still preserved in the town center. Most of the buildings are relatively low. The Church of Our Lady (Vårfrukyrkan), built of gray stone, was a bishop's church in the 12th century, but has been much altered and restored since then. On the Minksund are the ruins of a Franciscan friary (restored), the ground-plan of which can still be recognized.

Around Enköping there are large numbers of rock carvings from the Bronze Age, particularly at Boglösa, to the south of the town.