Bjørnevatn

Bjørnevatntunnelen (2000)

Bjørnevatn is a place in the municipality of Sør-Varanger in Troms og Finnmark , Norway . On January 1, 2019, the place had 2543 inhabitants.

geography

Bjørnevatn is located on Lake Bjørnevatnet , about ten kilometers south of Kirkenes . The place is connected to the Norwegian road network via Fylkesvei 8850 .

On the south-eastern edge of Bjørnevatn is the disused iron ore mine Sydvaranger Gruve . From 1909 to 1997 and from 2009 to 2016 the mine and the site were connected to the port of Kirkenes by the Sydvarangerbane .

history

In 1944, around 3,500 people lived in the commune's pits, who were forcibly evacuated from the fighting over the liberation of Finnmark . On October 25, 1944, they were liberated by the Red Army and the then Fylkesmann Peder Holt from Bjørnevatn ruled the liberated Eastern Finland until the German occupation was completely withdrawn on May 8, 1945.

Web links

Commons : Bjørnevatn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bjørnevatn in the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tettsteders following og areal. Statistisk sentralbyrå, November 4, 2019, accessed February 26, 2020 (Norwegian). 
2. ↑ Vegkart. Vegvesen, accessed February 26, 2020 (Norwegian). 
3. ↑ Inghild Eriksen: Tusenvis av mennesker gjemte seg i tunnelen. NRK, October 25, 2014, accessed on February 26, 2020 (Bokmål in Norwegian). 
4. ↑ Stian Bones: Frigjort av Den røde armé. University of Tromsø, November 27, 2010, accessed February 26, 2020 (Norwegian). 
5. ↑ Frigjøring and gjenreisning in Troms and Finnmark. Arkivverket, May 18, 2017, accessed February 26, 2020 (Norwegian). 

Coordinates: 69 ° 39 ′ 58.9 ″  N , 29 ° 59 ′ 9.8 ″  E