Bushmans Wild Hiking: Uskavi

Uskavi – Hammarby 17 km

SWEDEN: Bergslagsleden Stage 5

Uskavi – Hammarby 17 km

stage 5 starts at Uskavi friluftsgård

The ruins at Southern Brunnsjön

Difficulty:

Height:

17 km

Estimated time:

4 hr

Surface:

Forest road and redwoods. The milestone Hammarby will find the nature reserve Järleån.

This stage starts with a hike uphill. After one kilometer trail passes an electric box that gave power to the mining devices in Pouring mine. Pouring mine, which is nearby, was in operation from the year 1910 to the year 1959, when it was filled with water and pit cast again.

From Pouring Mine, located approximately 2 km south of Uskavi, and until South Brunnsjön, the trail follows the old church paths. Church paths have been worn by farmers and miners who were on their way to church in Lindesberg. Before the trail was built, the paths largely overgrown, since the 1900s has been replaced by a modern road network.

See how the miners lived

Instead of continuing on the trail are able to follow the road south from Uskavi to enjoy the grand Siggebohyttans mining estate. From there you back on the trail as it crosses the road between Siggebohyttan and Lindesberg.Siggebohyttan is one of the most magnificent estates from Bergslagen mining heyday. The manor house was built around 1790 and has 14 rooms and three kitchens.

As a visitor, you get to walk around in the rooms and with all your senses to experience how a wealthy bergsmanshem looked around the year 1860. In other words, you can step right into the story, without any rope or stands. It is also looking into the barn to see the wagons and kolslädarna or visit the shop's loft storehouse where the ceiling is decorated with fårfioler.

Mysterious Ruins

Shortly before South Brunnsjön trail passes the ruins of two buildings. The first building is assumed to be some sort of storage building, probably belonging to the copper smelting which were 200 meters north of the highway. Maybe stored the valuable copper behind these sturdy stone walls. The second building is the remains of a cellar. On top of the basement are the remains of a house, which probably served as a shelter for hikers church.

At Southern Brunnsjön is a swimming area with a fireplace. Then the trail continues to follow the Southern Wells eastern shore on a natural boundary moraine formed by the ice.

Hiking on Flymossen

The trail then leaves the traces of the iron industry and continues south into a more magnificent wilderness party. There are remnants of old-growth forest with really thick pine trees that are over 300 years old. The trail passes several large bogs, including Stora Aborrtjärnsmossen and Flymossen. Between the great marshes is the small Aborrtjärnen like a black pearl.

Strange pines

Between Aborrtjärn and Great Lake, at an approximately 2 km long stretch, the trail goes through a sparse stands of old pine tree, which grows in poor, dry soil. The pines are not more than 12-15 feet high.

Adjacent to the trail are several copies of the Central European species mountain pine, which has a partially creeping growth habit. In many mining forests, there are occasional pines of this particular species. The reason for this is that afforestation by planting occurred on use forests already 100 years ago when pine seeds were often imported from Germany. The seeds from the growing mountain pine had then accidentally brought from the seeds of the usual pine.

The fact that the mountain pine occurs so abundantly in the Great Lake may also be due to Hammarby use for a long time been owned by Norwegian companies. In Norway, often used mountain pine starter to plain pine Afforestation of kalmarker.

Rest Great Lake

At the northern shores of the Great Lake is a picnic area with shelter, fire, and toilet. The nearest cold spring located at the trail about 1 km south of the rest area. However, the waters of the Great Lake so clean it after cooking can be used for cooking. For ease of management if we ask you to take your rubbish when you leave the rest.

From the rest area, the route continues south on a well-trodden part and go over small woodlots and occasional young forest to the little black tarn. Here, the trail up a steep Towards a paved channel. This paved and very well laid channel, which reaches to the Black Pond, is one of Bergslagen Trail mysteries.It is still not entirely clear why the canal built, when it was built and by whom.The probable explanation is below.

In 1876 built the ironmaster CH Wedberg at Hammarby use a peat factory at Svarttjärn. On the site there as an eyewitness, a "lokomotifbil" ranking, that is a kind of steam engine that drove two peat mills. There was also a newly built peat magazines and hundreds of "torvhässjor" with peat drying. Stumps mined from bog used by blacksmiths as wood in the mill forges. The finding concludes: "Everything organized by the taste, nothing neglected. A good way to get there was already made." Probably was built canal to drain the high-lying bog to thus make it easier to extract peat.

At the trail from the trail up to the canal, you can see the red earth, which is a ferruginous earth. Even centuries before Christ present in the Bergslagen mining of iron from red earth. Such iron was recovered in small simple cottage industry into the ground. To get up to the temperature required for the iron in the earth would melt used blaster (or bellows) operated by hand or foot.

The last bit

After the channel will trail up on a hill, where you are treated to great views of the surroundings. South of Black Pond, where the trail crosses the power line, seen also some clear shingle banks. These were formed by lapping a precursor to the Baltic Sea for some 10 000 years ago, when the country was still depressed by the away melting ice sheet. These dykes marks not the highest shoreline, then the sea in these parts as most reached another 30 yards up the hills.

This stage ends at Hyttfallet, which is the upper case in Järleån downstream Norasjön. Hyttfallet, and the facilities that have been built up around water power there, has been instrumental in the development of the iron industry in the region as well as throughout Nora mining.

Even before 1544 there were a miner's hut and the same year began the so-called King Hammer will be constructed on the orders of King Gustav Vasa. The business was completed only in 1923, when the newly restored ironworks were closed.

Långforsen

Interim Hammarby

Interim Hammarby bordering Järleåns Nature Reserve, which has land on both sides of the river and extends from Hyttfallet and about 4 km downstream to Järle mill . reserve has been established to protect the river and valley with its rapids, canyon formations and cultural history from the iron industry's heyday.Most notable is perhaps the completely unaffected Långforsen, which has a vertical drop of more than 20 yards during his approximately 1,200-meter races.

Overnight Camping in Hammarby

Throughout the reserve at an approximately 6 km long walking path from Hyttfallet to Järle mill. Along the trail are several undeveloped picnic areas with shelters. In several places, including at Hyttfallet, there is also detailed information boards. At Hammarby community center are also tent facilities and an outdoor faucet for filling the fresh water.

Overview map:

What to See Along the Way:

1. The Church Paths

From Hällagruvan, about 2 km south of Uskavi, all the way to S. Brunnsjön, the

trail follows old church paths. Farmers and miners from Siggebohyttan and Öskevik have worn down these paths as they traveled to their parish church in Lindesberg.

Before the Bergslag Trail was formed, these paths were overgrown for the most part, as the 1900s saw the introduction of a modern road system.

2. Siggebohyttan

The old mining estate in Siggebohyttan is owned by the Örebro County Museum.

To get to Siggebohyttan from the trail, exit the path where it crosses the highway (about 2.5 km south of Uskavi) and then follow the highway west about 1.5 km.

3. The ruins at Southern Brunnsjön

Immediately north of S. Brunnsjön, the trail passes the ruins of two buildings. These might be the remains of an old croft, or are remnants of old mining-related buildings.

Next to the stream Kopparbäcken, about 200 m north of the highway, there are ruins of an old copper smelt house.

4. The dam at Southern Brunnsjön

South of the swimming area, the trail jogs up a low bank next to the lake. This bank was likely built by the miners who had their smelt houses on the little stream that runs from the lake, crossing the trail. The purpose was to have the possibility of damming up the lake in order to save water for those few

days during the year when the smelt houses were to be used.

5. Mountain Pine area

For a 2 km stretch between Abborrtjärnen and Storsjön, the trail passes through a sparse area of old pine trees, growing on bare ground and not more than 12-15 m tall. In this area by the trail there are examples of Central European mountain pines that have a somewhat creeping growth style.

Occasional examples of this species occur in many mining forests. Plantation of forests using seeds existed in the industry forests of 100 years ago, and pine tree seeds were often imported from Germany. Mountain pine seeds were inadvertently brought along with common pine tree seeds.

6. Stone canal

This well-laid stone canal runs from the slope west of the Bergslag Trail down towards Svarttjärnen.

It is unclear as to why, when or by whom the canal was built.

An early suggestion is that it was meant to drain the overlying peat bog and therefore facilitate the mining of the bog’s limonite. This appears, however, to be impossible.

On the path from the trail up to the canal, one can find traces of red soil, that is, iron-rich soil. In the centuries before Christ, iron was being extracted from red soil.

This type of iron is obtained by using small, simple ovens in the ground.

To raise the temperature so that the iron in the ground melted, bellows driven by hand or foot were utilized.

Pygmy owl is the smallest owl Sweden and shouts at dawn and dusk during the spring.

7. Shingle banks Svarttjärn

At the point south of Svarttjärn where the trail crosses power lines, it also passes over several distinct shingle banks.

These were created about 10,000 years ago by the splashing of waves in the early stages of the Baltic Sea, when the land was still depressed from melted inland ice.

The banks do not mark the highest coastline, since the sea, at its highest, reached up to heights of an additional 30 meters.

Fyrfläckig dragonfly

8. Hyttfallet, Hammarby

Stage 5 ends at Hyttfallet, which are the topmost falls of Järleån downstream of Norasjön. Hyttfallet, and the buildings that have been built here, played a huge role in the development of iron refinement in the area and in all of Nora. A smelt house existed here as early as 1544.

During that year, the so-called Kungshammaren (King’s Hammer) was established by the order of Gustav Vasa.

Production ended in 1923 when the then newly restored ironworks was closed.

Interim Hammarby should ring Järlans nature reserve, wich has land on both sides of the river and extends from hyttfallet and about 4 km downstream to Järle mill.

Do not miss it completely unaffected Långforsen, which has a vertical drop of more than 20 yards during his approximately 1200- meter races.

This stage ends at Hyttfallet, which is the upper case in Järleån downstream Norasjön. Hyttfallet, and the facilities that have been built up around water power there, has been instrumental in the development of the iron industry in the region as well as throughout Nora mining.

Important to know

● Make fires only where designated fire rings/circles are present.

● Make sure that your fire is completely out before you continue hiking.

● Refrain from starting fires during the dry periods of summer when risk of forest fire is high.

● Do not break off limbs or branches from living trees.

● You may pitch tents along the trail, but preferably near the rest areas and

not more that one night in the same place.

● Do not stray from the trail when near built-up areas, cultivated fields or planted forests.

● Do not litter.

● If hiking with a dog, be aware that you must always have the dog on a lead/leash in the forests/fields during the period from March 1 - August 20.

● So as to avoid conflicting with moose hunting season, you shouldn’t use the trail during the most intensive hunting period - the second week in October and several weeks forward.

Facts about the Bergslag Trail

(Bergslagsleden)

The Bergslag Trail is a 280 km hiking trail

passing through the entire county of Örebro. It is divided into 17 stages. The agency responsible for the trail is Regionförbundet Örebro. The Bergslag Trail is identified by orange markings on trees or on posts. At

road crossings or when the trail branches, directional arrows with the Bergslag Trail symbol appear. The Bergslag Trail forms part of European walking route E1, which extends from southern Italy to the Swedish

mountains. www.stfturist.se

Bus Connections

There is no regular bus traffic to Kloten.

Information on bus schedules: +46 771-22 40 00 Suggested reading (Swedish)

Esbjörnsson, Estrid, Värt att se i Örebro Län; Lindstén Carl Anders, Sevärt i Södra Kilsbergen; Hellström, Lena, Utsikt från Bergslagsleden.

For further information

Kopparberg Tourist Office: +46 580-805 55,

http://www.ljusnarsberg.se; Örebro County Regional

Development Council, +46 (0)19-602 63 00,

http://www.regionorebro.se

Home page for outdoor life

At http://www.regionorebro.se you can find a collection of information on nature and outdoor life in the Örebro region. It contains