Haugesund

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coat of arms map
Coat of arms of the Haugesund municipality
Haugesund (Norway)
Haugesund
Haugesund
Basic data
Commune number : 1106
Province  (county) : Rogaland
Coordinates : 59 ° 25 '  N , 5 ° 16'  E Coordinates: 59 ° 25 '  N , 5 ° 16'  E
Surface: 72.68 km²
Residents: 37,357  (Feb 27, 2020)
Population density : 514 inhabitants per km²
Language form : Bokmål
Website:
politics
Mayor : Arne-Christian Mohn  ( Ap ) (2015)
Location in the province of Rogaland
Location of the municipality in the province of Rogaland
Haugesund between Hardanger and Boknafjord

Haugesund is a trading town and municipality on the southwest coast of Norway with 37,357 inhabitants (as of February 27, 2020). The city is located on the North Sea coast, roughly halfway between Bergen and Stavanger . It is a major commercial center with shopping opportunities and a catchment area of ​​around 200,000 people. Haugesund is located on Karmsund , the historic "Nordvegen", which gave Norway its name. Since 1955, the 690 m long Karmsund Bridge has been leading across Karmsund to the neighboring municipality of Karmøy . Haugesund describes itself as a young city in an old shell . The name is made up of Haugen (German: hill ) and Sund (German: strait ).

geography

The municipality of Haugesund borders on the neighboring municipalities of Karmøy to the south and west , Sveio to the north and Tysvær to the east . The highest elevation in the community is the Klauv (German: Klaue) 246  moh. in the north of the commune. The community is spread over the mainland and several islands. Risøy and Hasseløy can only be reached by boat via bridges, Røvær , Vibrandsøy and others.

history

Haugesund was established as a transshipment point and post office for seafarers and fishermen at the time of the booming herring fishery at the end of the 19th century. The city received its town charter in 1854. The coat of arms shows three seagulls on a blue background, reflecting the history and geographic location.

According to legend , King Harald Hårfagre (Harald I called Fairhair ) is said to be buried near Haraldshaugen . A granite obelisk erected in 1872 with 29 smaller monuments from 29 parts of the country commemorates the founding of the empire in 872 and the founder of the empire, Harald Schönhaar . Nearby, at an old thing site in Krosshaugen, there is a stone cross from the Christianization period around the year 1000.

Haugesund was a Hurtigruten port from 1896 to 1919.

Population development

year 1769 1801 1815 1825 1835 1845 1855 1865 1875 1890 1900
Residents 843 917 1,058 1,243 1,500 1,830 2,668 5,037 6,192 7,813 10,664
year 1910 1920 1930 1946 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2001 2006
Residents 14,798 20,276 20,775 22,821 23,865 27,073 27,195 27,000 27,736 30,705 31,738

politics

Mayor ( Ordfører ) of Haugesund is Arne-Christian Mohn from the Labor Party ( Arbeiderpartiet ). The Social Democratic Party received 40.2% of the vote in the 2015 elections. After the election, a mandatory cooperation with the Progress Party was entered into. The other results of the election are shown in the table.

Votes in percent in local elections
year Workers' Party Progress party Right-wing party Chr. People's Party center Soc. left left Other parties
2015 40.2 14.0 22.3 5.3 1.9 3.5 4.9 x, x

Town twinning

Culture and sights

In Haugesund there is the Høgskolen Stord / Haugesund University of Applied Sciences with three faculties: for education and culture, for technology, economics and maritime education and for health care. There are courses in didactics and teacher training, in oil extraction at sea and in health education. The university is divided between the two campuses of Stord and Haugesund. An international film festival ( Den norske filmfestivalen ) and the Sildajazz jazz festival take place every year in August .

The city has several theaters, a town hall built in 1931, the Karmsund Folk Museum , the Haugesund picture gallery with a focus on contemporary art, the open-air museum ( Dokken ) on the island of Hasseløy, a symphony orchestra and its own daily newspaper ( Haugesunds Avis ). The local television station is called TV Haugaland , local radio stations are Radio102 and Radio Haugaland .

In the neighboring commune of Karmøy not far from Haugesund there are other monuments such as the prehistoric building stones at Ferkingstad, the sewing needle of Mary (Norw. Jomfru Marias synål) at the Olav Church in Avaldsnes and “ The five foolish virgins ”. At Avaldsnes there are also burial grounds from the Bronze and Iron Ages .

Lutheran churches are Vår Frelsers kirke (1900), ( Our Savior ), Skåre kirke (1856), Rossabø kirke (1974) and Udland kirke (2003), the only Catholic church is St. Joseph (1933), and there are several free churches .

The football club FK Haugesund is based in Haugesund .

  • Haugesund Town Hall

  • Vår Frelsers kirke, Haugesund

  • Haraldshaugen-Monument, memorial of the unification of the empire

Economy and Infrastructure

Karmsund Bridge

In addition to trading, fishing and a shipyard , the city lives economically from the canning industry and its deep-sea port .

traffic

Haugesund has the international airport Haugesund, Karmøy ( IATA airport code : HAU) on the island of Karmøy with scheduled flights to Oslo-Gardermoen , Bergen Flesland , Copenhagen and Gdansk . There is also charter and freight traffic.

Local ferries go to the nearby islands of Røvær and Feøy and to Utsira (Norway's smallest municipality) further out in the sea.

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Haugesund  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Haugesund  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistisk sentralbyrå - Befolkning
  2. ↑ Website of the Stord / Haugesund University of Applied Sciences (English), accessed on August 5, 2016