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Yttermalung

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Country
  
Sweden

County
  
Dalarna County

Area
  
77 ha

Population
  
216 (31 Dec 2005)

Province
  
Dalarna

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Local time
  
Sunday 2:12 AM

Yttermalung

Municipality
  
Malung-Sälen Municipality

Weather
  
-1°C, Wind NW at 3 km/h, 92% Humidity

Yttermalung is a village situated in Malung-Sälen Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden with 216 inhabitants in 2005.

Map of 782 91 Yttermalung, Sweden

The village has a church, Yttermalungs kapell. There has been a chapel or church in Yttermalung since the 16th century, and the current church building was built in the late 19th century.

In 1974, the largest collection of plate money in Sweden was found in Yttermalung. The collection consists of 240 plate coins, all in all weighing more than 234 kg. According to local tradition, the plate coins had been hidden in the mid-18th century by a powerful woman in the village who had become rich by selling timber to the copper mine in Falun, and who had died without telling anybody where she had hidden her riches.

The Swedish politician Marit Paulsen, who is a former Member of the European Parliament, lives in Yttermalung.

References

Yttermalung Wikipedia