Elvenes (Finnmark)
Elvenes (also Elvnes ) is a place in the municipality of Sør-Varanger in Troms og Finnmark , the northernmost province of Norway .
geography
Elvenes is about 10 km south of Kirkenes at the mouth of the Pasvikelva . The village has about 300 inhabitants. The place is connected to the Norwegian road network via the European route 105 Trifontunnelen . The Norwegian-Russian border is about 1.5 km from Elvenes.
From 1941 until the end of the Second World War , Stalag 322 was located in Elvenes, to which , among other things, around 600 teachers from all over Norway were brought in 1942. They refused to take part in the Nazification of the lessons.
Web links
Commons : Elvenes - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Elvenes in the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gjenstander fra lærerfange Ingebrigt Beinnes. In: Varanger Museum. Retrieved November 24, 2019 (Norwegian Bokmål).
Coordinates: 69 ° 40 ′ 45 ″ N , 30 ° 6 ′ 18 ″ E