Malm (Sweden)
Malm ( Swedish ; plural Malmar , from Old Swedish: Malmber ) denotes an area or ground made of sand or gravel and is the name of certain settlements in Sweden that have arisen outside of established localities.
etymology
There was often no possibility for the dispossessed to settle in established settlements. Therefore, simple houses were built just outside of settlements, in which day laborers and craftsmen settled. The first Malmar were built on Öland in the first half of the 18th century. The development reached its peak with population growth in the 1870s. The size of the Malmar varied from village to village. Some villages had hardly any such developments, while others had large numbers of dispossessed people. Originally the byalag , the association of the owners of a village, set conditions, so-called dagsverksskyldigheter, for the settlement in such a settlement. When emigration from Öland began in the 1870s , it was the Malmar who were left first. Even if the houses are now often used as summer houses, they are still characteristic of the Öland villages. The borders between the village and Malm are still clearly visible today. This meaning of the word should not be confused with that of “malm” which means “ore” in modern Swedish.
The suburbs of Stockholm were also referred to as Malm , such as oppa norra malm , Norrmalm . Even today the term is used in Swedish place names, for example in Malmö in the prefix. Other examples include a. Malmslätt , Malmköping and Malmbäck .
literature
- Markus Forslund: Nature and culture on Öland. Länsstyrelsen Kalmar län, 2001, ISBN 91-973802-4-5 , p. 119.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Elof Hellquist: malm . In: Svensk etymologisk ordbok . 1st edition. CWK Gleerups förlag, Berlingska boktryckerie, Lund 1922, p. 452 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- ↑ Malm In: Nationalencyklopedin (only via login).
- ↑ Svenskt local dictionary. Språk- och folkminnesinstitutet, Uppsala 2003, ISBN 91-7229-020-X , p. 217.