Döda Fallet, Ragunda, Sweden in 1966
Döda Fallet (The Dead Waterfall) is a former waterfall, in a now dried up riverbed in the former route of the river Indalsälven about 10 km southeast of Hammarstrand, along Highway 87, between Hammarstrand and Bispgården.
Here was Gedungsen, also called the Grand Rapids , which was an approximately 35-meter waterfall in Indalsälven and represented the exit of the lake Ragundasjön. For the emerging forest industry, which wanted to float timber on Indalsälven, it was a problem that most of the timber was smashed in the high, steep and rocky waterfall.
In the spring of 1796 Magnus Huss dug a timber chute past the rapids. However, this came to be catastrophic, the chute was dug through a gravel ridge, and when the spring floods came, the water flow increased so much that the entire ridge was eroded away. In four hours during the night between 6 and 7 June 1796 the lake was emptied almost completely. A new waterfall - Hammarforsen - arose and the now much smaller lake remains upstream of the new waterfall. Indalsälven took a new route and Gedungsen fell silent. Thus, had the Dead Falls occurred.
For his part in this, Magnus Huss is now referred to as Vild-Hussen (Wild Huss).
Döda Fallet became a nature reserve in 1964 and is considered one of Ragunda Municipality's major tourist attractions. A theatre with revolving seating has also been built nearby. On this revolving seating popular plays are set up in the summer.
The signatures are of King Oscar II and Princess Thérèse (with the accents not quite right).
Döda Fallet, Ragunda, Sweden in 1966
Döda Fallet (The Dead Waterfall) is a former waterfall, in a now dried up riverbed in the former route of the river Indalsälven about 10 km southeast of Hammarstrand, along Highway 87, between Hammarstrand and Bispgården.
Here was Gedungsen, also called the Grand Rapids , which was an approximately 35-meter waterfall in Indalsälven and represented the exit of the lake Ragundasjön. For the emerging forest industry, which wanted to float timber on Indalsälven, it was a problem that most of the timber was smashed in the high, steep and rocky waterfall.
In the spring of 1796 Magnus Huss dug a timber chute past the rapids. However, this came to be catastrophic, the chute was dug through a gravel ridge, and when the spring floods came, the water flow increased so much that the entire ridge was eroded away. In four hours during the night between 6 and 7 June 1796 the lake was emptied almost completely. A new waterfall - Hammarforsen - arose and the now much smaller lake remains upstream of the new waterfall. Indalsälven took a new route and Gedungsen fell silent. Thus, had the Dead Falls occurred.
For his part in this, Magnus Huss is now referred to as Vild-Hussen (Wild Huss).
Döda Fallet became a nature reserve in 1964 and is considered one of Ragunda Municipality's major tourist attractions. A theatre with revolving seating has also been built nearby. On this revolving seating popular plays are set up in the summer.
The signatures are of King Oscar II and Princess Thérèse (with the accents not quite right).