Directors first villa at Furulund in Sulitjelma

The Sulitjelma Hotel ( no, Sulitjelma Hotell) is a hotel located near the mines in

Sulitjelma , , or is a village in the municipality of Fauske in Nordland county, Norway. Sulitjelma is situated in a lush inland valley at an elevation of above mean sea level, above sea level. It is located on the shore of Langvatnet (Fauske), Langvatnet ...

in the municipality of

Fauske or is a municipality located in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Fauske. Some of the villages in Fauske include Nystad, Venset, Straumsn ...

Nordland Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, the least populous of all 11 counties, bordering Troms og Finnmark in the north, Trøndelag in the south, N ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. The building served as the former residence for the director of the

Sulitjelma Mines Sulitjelma Mines ( no, Sulitjelma gruber) was a Norwegian mining company that extracted copper, pyrite, and zinc at Sulitjelma in the municipality of Fauske, Norway. Operations started with a test mine in 1887. From 1891 to 1933, the business wa ...

after it was moved to Sulitjelma from

Badderen Badderen ( fkv, Paattari) is a village in the municipality of Kvænangen in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. It lies at the head of the Badderfjord, about south of the municipal seat of Burfjord. European route E6 passes through the village. Th ...

on the

Badderfjord The or is a small fjord that branches off of the main Kvænangen fjord in Kvænangen Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The fjord is long and wide and it extends from its mouth between Steinnes and Nordnes eastward to the hea ...

. In 1903 or 1906, the villa was disassembled and moved from Badderen to be rebuilt in Sulitjelma as the new director's residence for the company Sulitjelma Aktiebolag. In 1982 the structure was converted into a hotel with 50 beds, and in 1993 the hotel was renovated and expanded so that it can now accommodate 60 people. The hotel was closed with a deficit before the Skagen Hotel took it over in 2001. The hotel was later reopened with its own spa department and improved profitability. In early summer 2015 the hotel was put up for sale. In the fall of 2015 it was announced that the hotel was to be used as a reception center for Syrian refugees. In December 2016, the hotel was acquired by the Nordnorsk Reception Center, which stated to the media that the company plans to conduct asylum reception at the site. In the autumn of 2019 the hotel was purchased by Salten Hotell AS with a view to reopening the hotel to guests. Hotel operations were resumed in early 2020.

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Links

Sulitjelma Hotel Website
Hotels in Nordland Fauske