Malmberget

Malmberget ( Sami: Málmmavárre ) is a place ( tätort ) in the Swedish province of Norrbotten County and the historic province of Lapland.

The village in the municipality of Gällivare is located on the iron ore railway and is mainly known for its iron ore mines. 1741 here ore was broken for the first time. After 1888 a railway line was completed to the pits, put a so-called " Erzrausch " one, similar to the gold rush in North America. In the first years of the miners in huts which they had cobbled together with empty crates of dynamite lived.

By Malmberget runs a 250 meter deep pit, which divides the city into two parts. Continuously building and ways to be demolished as they arrive in the area with danger of collapse. So a church was moved from the edge of the pit in the liberated from the ore inside the mine in 1974. In recent decades, the population has greatly decreased. Also, this is the extent of the danger zone of the main reasons. So they began to resettle the people into three kilometers south to Gällivare, which is now larger than the original capital Malmberget. Malmberget located about 70 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, where the sun in the summer not about three weeks under and as long in the winter does not work out (see also the polar night, polar day, midnight sun).

In Malmberget there is a mine museum where the history of the local ore mining is shown by the discovery of deposits up to the present time. Also, an extraordinary collection of minerals and a photo exhibition can be viewed here.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Harry Ahman, correspondence chess champion and a chess organizer
  • Kurt Andersson, ice hockey and soccer national team
  • January Boklöv, ski jumpers
  • Olle Martinsson, ski jumpers
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