Kristineberg (Lycksele)
Kristine Berg is a place ( tätort ) in the Swedish province of Västerbotten County, in the historical province of Lapland.
Location
Kristine Berg is a member of Lycksele. The village is located about 160 km as the crow northwest of the provincial capital of Umeå and well 50 km north of the main town of the municipality, Lycksele, near the river Vormbäcken, a left tributary of the Vindelälven. Kristine Berg to Lycksele is the second largest Tätort the community.
Road access is from the south on a road that in Björksele from the provincial road 363 Umeå - Ammarnäs branches, as well as from the east of the provincial highway 370 which leads from bolide Malå after Holmfors.
History and Sights
Kristine Berg owes its existence to the discovery of significant ore deposits in the 1930s. The Kristine Berg Pit (Swedish Kristinebergsgruvan ) of Boliden AB Gruv be promoted in the zinc, copper, lead, silver and gold ore at the time, went into operation in 1940. During this time, the place was built as a mining camp. In 1943, an aerial cableway operation on which the ore was transported in the few years earlier cars west of Skellefteå for further processing, with 96 kilometers, the longest in the world.
As of 1941, the major Rävlidmyran - pit lake also produced a few kilometers from the other smaller Rävliden Pit, from 1950 Sörsjön, later joined by others, such as Hornträsket and Kimheden. The mined ore was enriched in a row in Kristine Berg. From the late 1970s, the importance of this development area declined. 1988 Rävliden, 1991 Rävlidmyran pit was closed. In 1987 the cable car had ceased operations; the transport of the ore by Boliden was taken over by trucks. The enrichment factory in Kristine Berg is now also closed, but the Kristine Berg- pit as still important of the area continues to operate. The ore is now mined at depths greater than 1000 meters, more than 500,000 tons in exploring inventories that range for at least ten more years. The population of the mining town Kristine Berg, who was up in the second half of the 1970s, at about 1000, but went back today to a quarter.
From the cable car to cars today is a good 13 kilometer section as a tourist attraction in operation, although not at Kristine Berg, but in the eastern neighboring community Norsjö at the middle portion of the former Erztransportbahn. In the Kristinebergs pit the St. Anne 's Church was in 1990 in 90 feet of water consecrated, far from the place had been discovered at the 1946 miner Albert Jönsson a reminiscent of a Christ portrait rock formation, which can be seen today in the church.
Cableway Kristine Berg bolide (1943 )