Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun - UNESCO ...

Eric Geisler and Notary Carl Halldin invented different techniques for
constructing buildings with slag for the first time in Sweden.
4 Store.
5 Storage buildings.
6 Garage.
7 Workshop building of cast slag blocks.
8 Konstmästaregården - formerly living quarters for the engineer. Inmates
included Christopher Polhem at the beginning of the 18th century. This
homestead was several times moved and reconstructed in the 19th century and,
most recently, in 1920, when the mine and copper mill offices were transferred
here.
9 Hutments.
10 Hutments.
11 Hutments.
12 Winch house.
13 Single headframe.
14 “The Tally Chamber” - a kind of office where the lavfogde (“headframe bailiff”),
together with two stigare (“walkers”) and the skräbas (“picking boss”), kept
accounts of all stackrum (“quarter cords”) at the “picking hills” by incising
marks on sticks - tallies. The building probably dates from the first half of the
19th century.
15 Adolf Fredrik’s Headframe, a shaft superstructure from 1845, designed and built
by chief engineer C.G. Husberg and moved to its present location because of the
mine’s expansion, which left it without a natural shaft under the floor. The
headframe burnt down on 2nd May 1999, but is to be re-erected.
16 Stores.
17 Fredrik’s Wheelhouse - designed by chief engineer Carl Gustaf Husberg in 1853.
The building was moved to its present location because of the mine’s expansion
and no longer has a waterwheel.
18 Mine office extension.
19 The Gamla Gruvstugan mine office was built as a workers’ hut and storage
building towards the end of the 19th century, using cast blocks of slag from the
extraction plant in Falun. It is now a centre for art studies.
20 Nya Gruvstugan, added at an angle to the old building.
21 Workshop.
22. (Missing numbers means no longer existing buildings).
23. Workshop.
24. Oscar’s Headframe - the youngest headframe at the mine, built of concrete in
1970 above the modern mine shaft, which has a maximum depth of 600 metres.
26. Drill core archives.
27. Wooden store shed.
28. Transformer building.
29. Powder magazine.
32. Creutz’s Winch House - an in-built waterwheel, 14 metres in diameter, which
powered pump-rod systems and winches in the mine shafts. This building,
constructed by Håkan Steffansson in 1855, remained in use until 1916. The
winch house is the only one surviving in Sweden.
33. Store shed.
34. Former employee housing, built of timber.
35. Husberg’s Pivot - a turntable capstan for cables to four different kibble shafts,
constructed by chief engineer C.G. Husberg in 1845.
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