At Filipstads eastern entrance stands a water turbine from Finnshyttan, erect on this site so that later generations will know that in Filipstad there once was an engineering technically prominent manufacture of water turbines.
The Turbine is of the type francis and was made in 1950 at Finshyttans Bruk just north of Filipstad. The wheel has been located in the Krokströmmen power plant in Härjedalen and was able to develop 23 00 kilowatts at 58 meters of fall height and the speed of 214 rpm.
In the late 1800s, when the electrification of Sweden began, the foresight patron Olof Bergström at Finshyttan started the production of turbines. Finshyttan could then live on with the new technology, which was gradually developed by skilled engineers. Notable among the more prominent are the head of the drawing office, Hjalmar O. Dahl and Magnus Oledal, who later became one of the country's only professors in the subject at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
Rudolf Wallertz was the manager and owner of Finshyttan Bruk when the wheel was manufactured. He had the knowledge that one would associate with old-fashioned cartridges. The wheel was designed by Torsten Wändell, who devoted one year to this work. He was one of the few in Sweden who knew the difficult art of constructing a world-class turbine wheel directly from theory, without practical tests.
Finhyttan's mill was closed down in 1965. John Fallgren, who was an installer there, continued the tradition with renovations of water turbines for many years.
Turbinhjul vid Filipstads enda rödljuskorsning
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Filipstads TuristinformationBox 308
68227 Filipstad
turism@filipstad.se+46 590 613 54
