Fjällsätern is a minor mountain in southern
Uddevalla
Uddevalla is a Stad (Sweden), town in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It’s the seat of Uddevalla Municipality. In 2015, it had a population of 34,781, making it the largest town fully in Bohuslän. Uddevalla is located where the river Bäveån ...
,
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
. 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
tomb
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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,
Ture Valleys
Ture Valleys or Ture's Valleys ( and ''Tures dalar'') is a nature reserve in the town of Uddevalla, Sweden. Located by the foot of the mountain Fjällsätern, on which Tureborg Castle stands, close to the Tureborg district, the area is named fo ...
, is situated on the mountain's eastern side.
During the
Second World War
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, Fjällsätern was used by the
Swedish Armed Forces
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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
Stone Age
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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.
See also
*
Tureholm
References
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Landforms of Västra Götaland County
Mountains of Sweden
Geography of Uddevalla