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Andrarum Alum Works Ruins

Andrarum Alum Works Ruins

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Andrarum Alum Works Ruins

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Location: Tomelilla, Skåne, Sweden

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Caro "Bandit"

November 10, 2020

Where you are standing in front of these ruins there was once an active industry. Several hundred people were employed with the production of alum at Andrarum Alum Works. Yellow smoke, smelling of sulphur, lay thick over the hill. In 1640 alum was manufactured for the first time in Andrarum and produced until 1929 when the Alum Works were shut down.

If you asked yourself now, what alum is: the scientific name is Potassium aluminium sulfate. It was used for dying yarn, tanning leather as well as for water purification and as a blood clotting agent. Today, alum is produced artificially.

👟Pamph🥾

September 1, 2019

The alum that was mined here earlier has stained parts of the river Verkeån.

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Sascha

September 8, 2023

No special skills required.

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Andrarum Alum Works Ruins

1. Hiking trail along the Verkaån – Hallamölla Waterfall loop from Lövestad

2. Alaunwerk Andrarum Slag Heaps – Hiking trail along the Verkaån loop from Brösarp

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