Fjällsätern is a minor mountain in southern

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. Its summit reaches above sea level according to one 1950 estimate (an earlier one from 1903 put it at 300 Swedish feet), making it the area's second highest. There the local politician and publicist Ture Malmgren (1851–1922) began building his grand Tureborg Castle, today a ruin, in 1899. Along its slopes Malmgren constructed several other structures, among them the likewise faux-medieval summer residence Fjällhyddan, and his own would-be

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. The area was once completely barren, but Malmgren – who was engaged in the tree-planting movement of that time – promised his wife Hilma that she would one day be able to walk beneath trees on Fjällsätern, and set about planting the thick forest of today. A nature reserve named after him,

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, is situated on the mountain's eastern side. During the

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, Fjällsätern was used by the

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for the town's air defence, as a lookout post. When Tureborg Castle burned down in 1950, the height of the mountain made it difficult for the firemen to reach the fire. No historical remains pre-dating Ture Malmgren's use of the area are known on Fjällsätern, but several

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sites sit by its foot, and the "-säter" suffix often indicates the area was historically used for forest-based livestock grazing.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fjallsatern Landforms of Västra Götaland County Mountains of Sweden Geography of Uddevalla

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