Dombås

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Dombås

Basic data

Country

Norway

Province (fylke)

Domestic

Municipality (commune) :

Dovre

Coordinates :

62 ° 5 ' N , 9 ° 8' E Coordinates: 62 ° 5 ' N , 9 ° 8' E

Residents :

1,185 (January 1, 2012)

Area :

1.81 km²

Population density :

655 inhabitants per km²

Height :

659 moh.

traffic

Railway connection:

Dovrebanen

The train station in Dombås

Dombås is a small town with 1,185 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2012) in the Norwegian inland . 659 moh. situated high up, it is a major transport hub. To the south the path leads over the E6 through the fertile Gudbrandsdalen towards Oslo , to the north the E6 climbs over the Dovrefjell to Trondheim and to the west the E136 branches off to follow the further course of the Gudbrandsdal along the river Lågen , and then into Romsdalen to descend to Åndalsnes .

During the campaign in Norway in 1940 the first paratroopers landed between Dombås and Dovre. These were beaten in an initial success by the regiment of Garden og Møre. This defeat was the first German setback on Norwegian territory.

Dombås is the starting point of the Raumabanen , which ends in Åndalsnes . Here you can change to the Dovrebahn . Dombås is connected to the Norwegian long-distance bus network with two lines (Bergen – Trondheim and Oslo – Trondheim).

In addition to a few hotels and souvenir shops, a small church forms the center of the village, which was built in 1939 with slate from the Dovre region.

climate

Dombås is located in the cold temperate climate zone ( Köppen : Dfc ). The long-term mean, the average annual temperature is 0.60 ° C, the average monthly temperatures over the course of the year are between -9.65 ° C and 12.21 ° C.

Well-known people from Dombås

The center of Dombås

Lars Berger (biathlete)
Tora Berger (biathlete)
Ivar Ulekleiv (biathlete)
Syver Berg Domås (three-time biathlon junior world champion 1999)

Individual evidence

↑ Population and area information. SSB, accessed August 28, 2013 (Norwegian).
^ Memorial Day and Captain Losey. wral.com, accessed August 28, 2013 .
↑ Peel, MC and Finlayson, BL and McMahon, TA: Updated world map of the Köppen – Geiger climate classification . In: Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. . 11, 2007, ISSN 1027-5606 , pp. 1633-1644. (direct: Final Revised Paper ; PDF; 1.7 MB)

Web links

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

Dovre Municipality - accessed August 28, 2013

[1] Population and area information. SSB, accessed August 28, 2013 (Norwegian).

[2] Memorial Day and Captain Losey. wral.com, accessed August 28, 2013 .

[Peel-3] Peel, MC and Finlayson, BL and McMahon, TA: Updated world map of the Köppen – Geiger climate classification . In: Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. . 11, 2007, ISSN 1027-5606 , pp. 1633-1644. (direct: Final Revised Paper ; PDF; 1.7 MB)