Bjarkøy

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Bjarkøy
Bjarkøy coat of arms
Bjarkøy (Norway)
Bjarkøy
Bjarkøy
Basic data
Country Norway
Province  (fylke) Troms and Finnmark
Municipality  (commune) : Harstad
Coordinates : 68 ° 59 ′  N , 16 ° 29 ′  E Coordinates: 68 ° 59 ′  N , 16 ° 29 ′  E
Situation map

Bjarkøy was a municipality in the northern Norwegian province ( Fylke ) Troms og Finnmark until it was incorporated into the municipality of Harstad on January 1, 2013 .

history

The area of ​​the municipality was spread over several small islands in the North Sea and on the northern half of the island of Grytøya , the southern half of which belonged to the municipality of Harstad . The residents live in a few small coastal settlements. The administrative seat was the settlement Nergården on the eponymous island Bjarkøya .

Bjarkøy is an old Viking settlement. Tore Hund , who killed King Olav the Saint , the patron saint of Norway, in the battle of Stiklestad in 1030 came from here . The Norwegian trader Ottar (Othere), who traveled to Haithabu to sell walrus ivory, may have lived here. Cultural traces of the Vikings are the round burial mounds of the burial ground, on which there is also a building stone , and the boat houses .

Bjarkøya remained the political center of the area in the Middle Ages .

The saga game "when?" is performed every summer.

traffic

A car ferry goes from Stornes on Hinnøya to Bjørnå on Grytøya, and from Vikran in the north of Grytøya there are ferry connections north to Sandsøya and Bjarkøya.

A 3250 m long submarine tunnel between Grytøya and Bjarkøya and a bridge-and-dam connection from Grytøya to Sandsøya (900 m dam, 300 m main bridge, and three low side bridges 46, 66 and 66 m in length) were built from August 2014 to December Built in 2018.

Sons and daughters of the church

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Facta om Harstad. Harstad Kommune, December 27, 2012, accessed January 1, 2013 (Norwegian).