Brätte
Coordinates: 58°20′45″N 12°18′16″E / 58.34583°N 12.30444°E
Brätte, originally known as Vassända, was a settlement on Vänern's southernmost bay, now Lake Vassbotten; it was a predecessor of today's Vänersborg, Sweden.
It is unclear when Brätte was founded, but it was a commercial center in the early 1500s. The name Brätte was first mentioned in 1556. Its site was important because the rapids and waterfalls on the Göta Älv at Rånnum (current Vargön) and Trollhättan barred navigation to shipping on Vänern and obliged traders to unload their cargoes here for portage on the Edsvägen. In addition, roads connected to the then Norwegian Bohuslän, Skara and Dalsland.
Sometime between 1580 and 1587 Brätte was granted town privileges.
During the Kalmar War (1611–1613), Nya Lödöse was taken by the Danes and some of its population moved to nearby market towns, principally Brätte, whose population increased from 200 to 450. While Nya Lödöse was Danish, Brätte became Sweden's only place of shipment to the west until 1619 when Sweden regained its lost areas in Älvsborg's second strike.
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