{"id":1915,"date":"2021-10-29T11:26:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T09:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tjamstan.anydaynow.se\/information\/history-of-tjamstan-and-laven\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T09:50:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T08:50:21","slug":"history-of-tjamstan-and-laven","status":"publish","type":"information","link":"https:\/\/tjamstan.anydaynow.se\/en\/information\/history-of-tjamstan-and-laven\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Tjamstan and Laven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The story began in 1943 when a decision was made to build a slalom hill on Tjamstanin the middle of Mal\u00e5. There used to be a sports hut there, built sometime between 1940-1941. The originator of the cabin was Hjalmar Bask and together with many volunteers and 1500 SEK he made the construction of the sports cabin possible. The cottage was handed over to the sports club in 1943 in connection with the construction of the slalom slope.<\/p>\n\n

The slalom slope led to a boost for alpine sports in Mal\u00e5! Rune Fallander moved to the municipality and devoted a lot of effort to developing the sport. Other profiles to be mentioned from the slalom in the middle of the 20th century were Erik Holm- lund, Folke Marklund, K.G. Sundin, P.O. Eriksson, G\u00f6sta Westling, Gunnar Bergstr\u00f6m and Gunnar Nor\u00e9n. <\/p>\n\n

In 1948 a starting tower was built on the hill. In 1958 the first ski lift was installed. <\/p>\n\n

The peak of the slalom era was reached in 1949 when DM competitions were held in Mal\u00e5. The winner was Hasse Olofsson, Fj\u00e4llvinden.<\/p>\n

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The pictures show Mal\u00e5’s first lift, 1958. The picture to the right was taken before the lift existed.<\/p>\n\n

A long time ago, the mine was moved from the Rackejaur mine to the foot of the Tjamstan. A lava is a feed mill used at a mine. Inside the lava at Tjamstan is an artwork by Tor Gunderssen depicting a tree made up of drill cores, symbolising the plant power that exists within Mal\u00e5 for generations to come. For many years, Mal\u00e5 Municipality wooed all newborns in the municipality and each child who was born received a leaf with a personal rune sign attached to the tree. <\/p>\n\n

It is V\u00e4sterbotten’s only remaining mining slave built in wood!<\/p>\n\n

Today there is a warming hut, garage, conference rooms, rental apartment, rental of alpine equipment and more in Laven. <\/p>\n\n

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The information about this history is taken both from old pictures, but also from a thorough documentation that Egon Ebbest\u00e5hl, then chairman of MAL\u00c5 IF carried out for MAL\u00c5 IF’s 60th anniversary in 1996. Egon designed a brochure based on film clips in which Martin Marklunds told about his research on association life in the district and then completed the story based on saved meeting minutes.<\/p>\n\n

What about the hotel? When did Mal\u00e5 get a hotel at the foot of the mountain? Construction of the older part of the hotel began in 1961 and was completed in 1962. <\/p>\n\n

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The story of the old mine slave<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

“I remember that Boliden was going to demolish the old mine in the 1990s and Mal\u00e5 municipality was asked if we wanted to take care of it and preserve it”, says Sture Hedstr\u00f6m, then head of services at Mal\u00e5 municipality.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

“We discussed locations such as N\u00f6lviken and Sj\u00f6parken, but ended up at the foot of Tjamstan. It was a great finish, one might think in retrospect.<\/strong>“<\/p>\n\n

But Sture Hedstr\u00f6m points out that the driving force in Laven’s development at this time was \u00d6sten Renstr\u00f6m, for many years the operations manager at Mal\u00e5 Tourism and one of the initiators of the move of Laven from the Rakkejaur mine. <\/p>\n\n

Once the municipality decided to take care of the old mining lava, project money was sought. The move cost around SEK 10 million.<\/p>\n\n

“If I remember correctly, the municipality only had to pay SEK 1 million of these, the rest was paid for by EU money”, says Sture Hedstr\u00f6m. <\/p>\n\n

Said and done. The lava was dismantled in parts and moved from Rakkejaur to the foot of Tjamstan in Mal\u00e5, a journey of almost 3 miles.<\/p>\n\n

It took a few years to renovate the building, which was converted into a conference room, a lookout point, a geo museum and offices. It was built together with the existing building, which included a tourist office and restaurant.<\/p>\n\n

Britta Stenberg, journalist and author, printed a letter to the municipality with the following proposal: that Mal\u00e5 municipality should plant a tree for every child born and place it in the Sj\u00f6parken in central Mal\u00e5. <\/p>\n\n

The Municipal Board gave the management team in the municipality the task of handling Britta Stenberg’s proposal, which the Municipal Board found interesting in the light of the forthcoming millennium change. Each member of the management team was asked to go into his or her chamber, think and come up with a proposal. Sture thought, and gave the following suggestion based on Britta’s idea:<\/p>\n\n

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“A work of art in the form of a tree with a sturdy trunk and tree branches that will symbolise the growth power of Mal\u00e5 for generations to come. Drill cores are used for the construction of the artwork. Every newborn Mal\u00e5bo gets his name and birth number on a drill core. The artwork will be placed in Laven.”<\/p>\n\n

The management group presented the proposal to the City Council, which instructed Sture Hedstr\u00f6m to implement it. The artist Tor Gundersen, then living in Mal\u00e5, was contacted and agreed to the commission. Tor expanded on the proposal and added another dimension: that a unique runic character should be carved on the leaves to replace the names and a register should be established so that each newborn could recognise his or her own leaf in the future.<\/p>\n\n

SGU provided old drill cores and access to a rock saw. Sture sawed the stones and assisted Tor with the assembly.<\/p>\n\n

The tree was inaugurated at the turn of the millennium (2000) and the following year the non-profit association Georange was founded and set up its office in Laven. <\/p>\n\n

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Britta Stenberg and Sture Hedstr\u00f6m in the old mine lava in Mal\u00e5, in 2022. Photo: Anna Israelsson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

The original idea behind the Georange association was that the mining and minerals industry in northern Sweden needed an independent arena where different efforts and interests could be brought together and coordinated. Since then, Georange has been working to create partnerships and networks linked to the mining industry. During the years Georange’s office was stationed in Laven, many scientists visited the building for conferences and meetings. \u00d6sten Renstr\u00f6m set up a geomuseum in the basement, which was then moved to SGU’s basement premises in Mal\u00e5. <\/p>\n\n

“I was a finance officer for a few years in Georange, so I’ve worked for many years under Lava’s roof. By the way, the acoustics in the building are fantastic,” Sture says and continues:<\/p>\n\n

“It’s just a very unique building.”<\/p>\n\n

But everything has its time. In 2010 Georange moved out (today Georange is based in Skellefte\u00e5) and the Tourist Office was moved to the library. The leaves for the newborns stopped being made, but the tree still stands today inside Laven in the pillared hall that now serves as a conference room. The hotel owner at the time was given the lease of Laven and converted the office part into an apartment. Today it serves as a rental apartment and is rented out by Hotel Tjamstan.<\/p>\n\n

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Facts about mining and the Gold Kingdom<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

*Strax before the turn of the century 1900, the young Petrus Jonsson from Murpejaure found a golden shimmering stone at Kristineberg. He put it in a sack and took it to Cederlund’s shuttle station in Mal\u00e5-V\u00e4nn\u00e4s where he showed it to some travellers, among them an agronomist named H\u00e4ggbom. The agronomist, who also had some knowledge of geology, examined the find at length before throwing it into the fire and concluding, “Sulphur biscuits!” Petrus Jonsson’s find had no value that time. But in the early 1900s there was a shortage of metals, and old finds were sometimes re-examined, including Kristineberg. <\/p>\n\n

*In Adak (later the Adak mine was built) the ore was found by chance. It was in the summer of 1921 during a road construction near Kourbevare. <\/p>\n\n

*1924 The large ore body is found in Boliden, which became the start of the Boliden area.<\/p>\n\n

It was thus the local population that found the first finds, but quite soon, at the end of the First World War, the search was taken over by exploration companies, especially the privately owned Centralgruppens Emisisonsbolag, which later became Boliden AB and the Swedish Geological Survey (SGU), which from 1933 had offices in Norsj\u00f6. But in the early 1980s, over 200 people worked at SGU’s office in Mal\u00e5, when a major expansion of their premises in Mal\u00e5 was also made. In 2022, 5 people will work at the SGU office in Mal\u00e5.<\/p>\n\n

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Facts about LAVEN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Before it was moved to Mal\u00e5 from Rackejaur, it served as a forwarding slave with a tailor’s house at the Rakkejaur mine. Moved to Mal\u00e5 in the 90s. In Mal\u00e5 it has served as a project office, base for Georange, geo museum, party room, office for “Mal\u00e5 Turism”, conference room, restaurant, caf\u00e9 and more.<\/p>\n\n

Source: the magazine Guldriket, SGU, Sture Hedstr\u00f6m<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Written by: Anna Israelsson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tjamstan.anydaynow.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/information\/1915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tjamstan.anydaynow.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/information"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tjamstan.anydaynow.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/information"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tjamstan.anydaynow.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}