Kolmården
The Kolmården is a wooded ridge in Sweden southwest of Nyköping . It is located in the Swedish landscapes of Östergötland , Närke and Södermanland and borders the Baltic Sea in the east . The highest point is 167 meters high.
In Kolmården lies the Kolmårdens djurpark (Kolmården's Zoo) and Tropicarium Kolmården .
geography
The wide and flattened mountain ridge rises southwest of Nyköping from the Baltic Sea. It is divided by several transverse valleys and swampy depressions. In the further course to the west, its height is 15 to 60 meters above the surrounding flatland, with the ridge falling steeply to the south to Bråviken Bay. The north side is less clearly demarcated and merges into the hilly lake landscape of Södermanland . In the north-west, Kolmården is connected to the Tylöskogen ridge. Geologically, Kolmården consists mainly of red gneiss . In some places thick layers of limestone and marble are enclosed in this. The latter is still being mined today (2009) under the name Kolmårdenmarmor .
archeology
In Kolmården there are a number of well-preserved finds from Swedish prehistory. In the Stone Age , today's mountain peaks were islands in the Baltic Sea, which the Stone Age people used as a place to live or rest. For example, ceramic pieces with prominent depressions were found near Säter, which were used in Scandinavia in the 4th millennium BC. Were typical. Tools made of quartz were mainly discovered from the Mesolithic period . The remains of metallurgical smelters and coal piles from the Middle Ages bear witness to the intensive iron ore processing in this era. Due to the relative inaccessibility of the site, many archaeological finds are surprisingly well preserved.
Varia
The Kolmården is in Chapter 22 of Selma Lagerlof's novel The Wonderful Adventures of Nils described.
