A trading center known as Bro had…

A trading center known as Bro had flourished as early as the fourteenh century, in the län (county) of Värmland in west-central Sweden, on Vänern (lake).

As the town and port of Kristinehamn, it had received a charter in 1582, when royal ironworks had been established there; it has lost both ironworks and charter within two years.