Hamarøy

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Hamarøy municipality coat of arms
Hamarøy (Norway)
Hamarøy
Hamarøy
Basic data
Commune number : 1875
Province  (county) : North country
Administrative headquarters: Oppeid
Coordinates : 68 ° 4 ′  N , 15 ° 46 ′  E Coordinates: 68 ° 4 ′  N , 15 ° 46 ′  E
Surface: 2,020.45 km²
Residents: 2,766  (Feb 27, 2020)
Population density : 1 inhabitant per km²
Language form : neutral
Website:
politics
Mayor : Britt Kristoffersen  ( Sp ) (2019)
Location in the province of Nordland
Location of the municipality in the province of Nordland

Hamarøy ( Lule Hábmer ) is a municipality in the northern Norwegian province of Nordland . Their administrative center is called Oppeid. As part of the municipal reform in Norway , the southwestern part of Tysfjord was merged with Hamarøy on January 1, 2020. The population of 1747 refers to the municipality before the incorporation of Tysfjord.

Culture

In the district of Hamsund is the homonymous farm, which Knut Hamsun's parents had lived in since 1862 and where the poet, who chose his surname after the farm, received formative childhood impressions. The residential building, at that time only consisting of the three northern axes, was later extended twice to the south to a total of seven axes and in 2007, along with the outbuildings, were placed under monument protection. Today it houses a branch of the Salten Museum.

The Skogheim farm, which Hamsun lived in from 1911 to 1917, is located in the Oppeid district. In the 1920s, the main building was extended by two axes to the north and heightened. Today it contains a Hamsun memorial room.

The Hamsun Center is a literature house and documentation center about the writer Knut Hamsun. It is located on the Presteidstraumen, through which sea ​​water flows into and out of the Glimma Bay when the tides change . The award-winning tower building was designed by the American architect Steven Holl and has been open to the public since summer 2010.

coat of arms

Description: In blue a standing and looking silver lynx .

Famous pepole

  • Knut Hamsun , winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, spent his childhood in Hamarøy
  • Horst Tappert , German actor, owned a holiday home here with his third wife Ursula from 1990 to 2008

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistisk sentralbyrå - Befolkning
  2. ↑ Navn på nye kommuner. February 19, 2019, accessed January 25, 2020 (Norwegian).