Short visual history of Uthammar
(Picture license: PDM)
Back in the days, Uthammar used to be a stone quarry run by Carl J. Schylander’s Granite Joint Stock Company. The granite was transported 3 km on a small railway from the quarry down to the harbor, which is nowadays the marina in Uthammar. From there, ships would pick up the granite and carry it to its destinations. (https://digitaltmuseum.se/021018112606/stenbrottet-i-uthammar).
Some Uthammar granite was erected in Berlin, Germany.
Although the rails nowadays are long gone, the area is marked out and you can still see where the railway used to be. A couple of underground storerooms, where the stone masons and laborers in the quarry used to keep the dynamite and the pilsner, and the old blacksmith forge, are still standing today.
Nowadays the forge is mainly used for the Uthammar Association meetings, and its members can also use it for private gatherings. Some old photographs from that era can be found in the forge and are descriptive of its history:
The railway system carrying the granite blocks from the quarrry down to the harbor in Uthammar.
Granite blocks being loaded onto ships in the Uthammar harbor.
The main loading dock in Uthammars harbor. Today the loading dock is replaced by the popular bathing bridge.
Another view of the loading dock. The harbor manager’s villa can also bee seen in the picture. It is still standing today and has been renovated by its present owner, who has taken meticulous care to keep every original detail, from the carpentry down to the potty under the bed!
This monument in Berlin, Germany, was made from Uthammar granite.
The oven inside the blacksmith forge, in its present state.
The old tool or parts cabinet nowadays serve as the Association’s makeshift public library. Someone came up with the idea that we could have an unmanned book-trading place there: if you have a book that you’re done with, put it there so someone else can read it, instead of just throwing it away.
Most interior details of the forge are preserved.
The old blacksmith forge today.