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Certainly, the Lubeckian investment secured some kind of Hanseatic influ-

ence at the copper mines, but this cannot be interpreted in the sense that the

Germans had initiated the Swedish copper-mining.146

From Falun the copper was exported via Stockholm and Lübeck to Bruges,

where for the most part, the trade laid in the hands of Hanseatic, Stockholmian

and Lubeckian merchants.147 It is not possible to estimate the quantity of cop-

per exported to the West in Hanseatic times.148 Generally, the Falun mines

boomed in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, even if their importance in

Hanseatic times is indisputable.149

146 B. Boëthius, Kopparbergslagen, 22.

147 W. Koppe, Handelsgeschichte, 21f.

148 Kjell Kumlien, “Staat, Kupfererzeugung und Kupferausfuhr in Schweden 1500–1650.”

In Schwerpunkte der Kupferproduktion und des Kupferhandels in Europa 1500–1630, ed.

Hermann Kellenbenz (Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 1973), 241–251, here 245f.

149 Björn Ivar Berg, “Krisen und Konjunkturen im skandinavischen Bergbau bis 1800.” In

Konjunkturen im europäischen Bergbau in vorindustrieller Zeit, ed. Christoph Bartels and

Markus A. Denzel, Festschrift für Ekkehard Westermann zum 60. Geburtstag (Stuttgart:

Steiner, 2000). vswg, Beihefte, 155, 85–101, here 87ff.

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Kupfererzeugung, 171.