Saggrenda
Saggrenda is a small Norwegian village (Tettbygd) in the municipality of Kongsberg in Fylke Viken .
History and description
The village lies on the Kobberbergselva river and is about 7 km southwest of downtown Kongsberg. In Saggrenda, the main Norwegian road link runs through Haukelivegen , also known as European route 134 .
Saggrenda is one of the oldest working-class neighborhoods in Norway, also known as “Sakkerhusene”, and was built with several houses and workers' barracks. In the course of the silver mining around Kongsberg, which began in 1623, this settlement emerged near the pits. The settlement grew and developed independently through mining outside of the city center of Kongsberg. After the end of silver mining in Kongsberg, which was discontinued in 1958, the conversion of the former mining facilities resulted in the current Norwegian Mining Museum ( Norwegian Norsk Bergverksmuseum ) and the Kongsberg Silver Mine ( Norwegian Kongsberg Sølvverk ) with the former Kongens Gruve (King's Pit) as a tourist attraction as a show mine . The main building of the Norwegian Bergwerksmuseum in Kongsberg additionally provides a further permanent exhibition information mining is located in 3616 Kongsberg at the Hyttegata 3 59.67 ° N , 9.65 ° O . The former mines are managed by the Norwegian Mining Museum and are not actually a museum. The silver mine and a section of the mine railway of the silver mine can, however, be visited or driven by visitors to the mining museum under supervision and leads 2.3 kilometers deep into the mountain. The museum also offers special hikes and city tours on mining in Saggrenda and the post- mining landscape of Knutefjell and around Kongsberg and the surrounding area. Saggrenda and Kongsberg have benefited significantly from mining tourism in recent years, and several jobs have been created.
Saggrenda Asthma Sanatorium
From 1949 to 1979 the former Danish asthma sanatorium , which was founded by the Danish Red Cross , was in Saggrenda . It was used during this period for recreation, rehabilitation and healing for Danish and some Norwegian children suffering from asthma. In 1981 the building was used as the Saggrenda Turistsenter (Saggrenda Tourism Center) and was later sold to a Norwegian Seventh-day Adventist religious group. Since then it has been operated by them as a guest house and course facility in Fredheim .
school
Saggrenda also had a State Forestry School as a vocational school for forest and forest workers ( Statens skogskole ) from all over Norway . Today the school is the Agricultural and Building School Saggrenda ( Saggrenda Naturbruk og Byggfagsenterund ), as the municipal secondary school of Kongsberg. The school focuses on topics related to the forest, nature, wilderness, local recreation, hunting, fishing, nature and the environment. There is a lively cooperation and student exchange with schools from other Scandinavian and Baltic countries. The school also has a guest house and student dormitory as well as a boarding school with leisure rooms for all students coming from outside of Kongsberg.
Saggrenda train station
Saggrenda got on February 11, 1920 a connection to the Sørlandsbanen (dt. Südlandbahn) with a train station. Saggrenda station 59.63 ° N , 9.61 ° E was on the Sørlandsbane railway line between Kongsberg station and Hjuksebø station . In 1967 the station was shut down and initially served as a stop. Since May 28, 1989, the station is no longer used as a passenger stop, but is a remote-controlled crossing station.
Web links
- Saggrenda on snl.no in the store norske leksikon
- Saggrenda silver mine on visitblefjell.no
- Norsk Jernbaneklubbs Stasjonsdatabase with Saggrenda stasjon on forsk.njk.no
- Kongsberg videregående skole Undervisningssted Saggrenda on vilbli.no
- Web presence of the Norsk Bergverksmuseum in Soggrenda and Kongsberg on norsk-bergverksmuseum.no
Coordinates: 59 ° 37 ′ 58 " N , 9 ° 35 ′ 58" E