Hellmobotn

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Coordinates: 67 ° 49 '  N , 16 ° 31'  E

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Hellmobotn ( Lule : Vuodnabahta ) is a village in the municipality of Hamarøy in the Norwegian province of Nordland .

geography

The place is located on Hellmofjord , part of the Tysfjord , which is in the province (Norwegian: Fylke ) Nordland. There are only 6330 meters as the crow flies between the fjord and the Swedish border. This makes the area around Hellmobotn, together with two valleys in Finnmark near the Russian border, one of the narrowest parts of mainland Norway.

Until the state- wide municipal reform, Hellmobotn belonged to the municipality of Tysfjord , which was partially incorporated into the municipality of Hamarøy on January 1, 2020.

history

Hellmobotn and the Hellmofjord, 2011

In the area around the Hellmofjord arrived on June 7, 1940 German Wehrmacht soldiers who were on their way north to Narvik . Due to its special location, there were several escape routes in the area during World War II that were used by people who wanted to get to Sweden . The first group, consisting of 34 people, migrated from Hellmobotn to the Swedish community of Jokkmokk at the end of May 1940 . Over time, most of the refugees were Norwegians, and a few foreigners also used the routes. The local escape workers were sometimes arrested by the Swedish border police.

One of the escape helpers was the pastor of Tysfjord, Kolbjørn Varmann, who was convinced that the refugees had to be helped after a group suffered frost damage on their way to Sweden. Most of the pilots were seeds . Varmann later stated that around 3,000 people had fled to Sweden through the area. When the German occupiers found out about the escape routes, they deployed guards in Hellmobotn from 1942/43. At peak times that should have been up to 150 soldiers. This shifted the escape routes further to the north.

Web links

Commons : Vuodnabahta  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Factaark: Hellmobotn. Kartverket, accessed May 15, 2020 (Norwegian).
  2. ↑ Geir Thorsnæs: Hellmobotn . In: Store norske leksikon . January 3, 2020 ( snl.no [accessed on May 14, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Geir Thorsnæs: Tysfjord - tidligere commune . In: Store norske leksikon . January 22, 2020 ( snl.no [accessed May 15, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Forskrift on the gathering of Hamarøy commune and the Tysfjord commune (sørvestsiden) to Hamarøy commune, Nordland. Lovdata, accessed May 15, 2020 (Norwegian).
  5. ↑ a b Marianne Neerland Soleim, Jens-Ivar Nergård, Oddmund Andersen: Grenselos i Grenseland . 2nd Edition. Orkane Akademisk, Stammsund 2019, p. 30 ( orkana.no [PDF]).
  6. ↑ Marianne Neerland Soleim, Jens-Ivar Nergård, Oddmund Andersen: Grenselos i Grenseland . 2nd Edition. Orkane Akademisk, Stammsund 2019, p. 54-56 ( orkana.no [PDF]).
  7. ↑ Marianne Neerland Soleim, Jens-Ivar Nergård, Oddmund Andersen: Grenselos i Grenseland . 2nd Edition. Orkane Akademisk, Stammsund 2019, p. 35 ( orkana.no [PDF]).
  8. ↑ Marianne Neerland Soleim: Grenseloser i Nord-Norge under other verdenskrig . In: Store norske leksikon . May 31, 2017 ( snl.no [accessed May 15, 2020]).
  9. ↑ Oddmund Andersen: Vaktbunkere og Finnetelt. Tysk vakthold grensen til Sverige under 2. Verdenskrig. (PDF) In: arran.no. 2018, accessed May 15, 2020 (Norwegian).
  10. ↑ Grenselosing i Tysfjord under andre verdenskrig. (PDF) In: arran.no. Retrieved May 15, 2020 (Norwegian).