or is a mountain village in

Røros Municipality ( Norwegian) or is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Røros. Some of the villages in Røros include Brekken, Glåmos, Feragen, Galåa, and Hitterdalen. The municip ...

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county,

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. The village is located along the river

Glåma The Glomma or Glåma is Norway's longest and most voluminous river. With a total length of , it has a drainage basin that covers 13% of Norway's surface area, all in the southern part of the country. Geography At its fullest length, the river r ...

, just west of the lake Aursunden, and about north of the town of Røros. It is the location of the

Glåmos Church Glåmos Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Røros Municipality, Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the village of Glåmos. It is the church for the Glåmos parish which is part of the Gauldal prosti (deanery) in th ...

and the Glåmos Station which sits along the Rørosbanen railway. The village had a population (2000) of 202 and a

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of . Since 2000, the population and area data for this village area has not been separately tracked by

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Name

The first element of the name is the name of the river

and the last element is ''os'' meaning the 'starting point of a river'. The river Glåma is considered to start near here at the end of the lake Aursunden.

History

The village has several old

copper mine Copper extraction is the multi-stage process of obtaining copper from its ores. The conversion of copper ores consists of a series of physical, chemical, and electrochemical processes. Methods have evolved and vary with country depending on the ...

s located nearby that used to supply the Røros Copper Works in the town of Røros. In the hills immediately north-west of the village lies Nordgruvefeltet ("the North Mine Field"), one of two principal mining districts that supplied Røros Copper Works for more than three centuries. The Arvedal Mine opened in 1657, and by the late 1800s the adjoining Kongens Gruve ("King’s Mine") employed almost 350 men, complete with its own post office, shops and a mountainside school. Output shifted from copper pyrite to massive

pyrite The mineral pyrite ( ), or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula Fe S2 (iron (II) disulfide). Pyrite is the most abundant sulfide mineral. Pyrite's metallic luster and pale brass-yellow hue ...

ore once the

Røros Line The Røros Line () is a rail transport, railway line which runs through the districts of Norway, districts of Hedmarken, Østerdalen, and Gauldalen in Innlandet and Trøndelag, Norway. The line branches off from the Dovre Line at Hamar Station ...

(1877) and a

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industrial line (1886) allowed bulk transport. Operations declined after the First World War and were finally abandoned in 1945, but the shafts,

barracks Barracks are buildings used to accommodate military personnel and quasi-military personnel such as police. The English word originates from the 17th century via French and Italian from an old Spanish word 'soldier's tent', but today barracks ar ...

and tramway traces around Glåmos remain visible reminders of an industrial community carved out of the high plateau. The village was the

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of the old Glåmos Municipality which existed from 1926 until 1964.

Infrastructure

The headwaters of the Glåma are exploited for

hydropower Hydropower (from Ancient Greek -, "water"), also known as water power or water energy, is the use of falling or fast-running water to Electricity generation, produce electricity or to power machines. This is achieved by energy transformation, ...

. Kuråsfossen kraftverk, built at the river's outlet from Aursunden, entered service in 1896 and is regarded as Norway's oldest preserved generating station. Its pioneering three-phase

transmission line In electrical engineering, a transmission line is a specialized cable or other structure designed to conduct electromagnetic waves in a contained manner. The term applies when the conductors are long enough that the wave nature of the transmis ...

carried electricity 24 km to the King's and Christianus Sextus mines, enabling early electrification of underground drilling and ore-hoisting. A major extension completed in 1952 now harnesses a 48 m drop and produces around 60 GWh annually. To support the plant and reduce downstream flooding,

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approved regulation of Aursunden in 1921; the finished dam (1924) raised the lake by nearly 6 m and created a 215 million cubic metres storage

reservoir A reservoir (; ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to water storage, store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation. Reservoirs are created by controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of wa ...

, making Glåmos a key node in the

Glomma The Glomma or Glåma is Norway's longest and most voluminous river. With a total length of , it has a drainage basin that covers 13% of Norway's surface area, all in the southern part of the country. Geography At its fullest length, the river r ...

water-management scheme.

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Glåmos include: * Monicha Nergaard (born 1968), an archer

References

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