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Near Örebro

Nature reserves near Örebro

Örebro Municipality includes parts of 62 nature reserves. Within and just beyond the city, continuous woodland meets wetlands built or restored to give natural processes room again.

A substantial forest within the city

Varbergaskogen is unusually extensive for woodland enclosed by Örebro. Dark damp spruce alternates with tall pine and bright birch groves. A created pond at its centre now supports frogs and newts. These closely spaced habitats make the reserve more than a uniform patch of urban trees.

Boglundsängen illustrates nature designed around a practical task. Shallow basins beside the Lillån receive and clean runoff from farmland and surrounding development. The same wet surfaces now support numerous birds. Water treatment and wildlife habitat are two results of one functioning system.

From landfill to lakeshore habitats

Oset och Rynningeviken records the largest transformation. Long restoration converted former landfill and industrial land beside the Svartån and Lake Hjälmaren into pasture, shore woodland, meadow, reed-fringed bays and open wetland. The habitats differ on either side of the river but remain connected by water.

Together, the reserves show urban nature at three stages. Varbergaskogen retains an older forest mosaic, Boglundsängen was constructed to clean water, and the Oset och Rynningeviken reserve was recovered from heavily altered ground. The result is a choice between woodland, open wetland and Lake Hjälmaren’s shore within the same city landscape.

Three reserves near Örebro

Varbergaskogen

2.6 km in a straight line from the centre

Urban coniferous and birch woodland with wet ground
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Oset och Rynningeviken

3.5 km in a straight line from the centre

Shore meadows, wet woodland and reed-fringed bays
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Map of nature reserves near Örebro