Kjerkeberget
| Kjerkeberget | ||
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 The Kjerkeberget with a refuge on the summit |
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| height | 630.8 moh. | |
| location | Oslo Province , Norway | |
| Mountains | Nordmarka | |
| Dominance | 2.7 km | |
| Notch height | 37.8 m | |
| Coordinates | 60 ° 8 ′ 7 ″ N , 10 ° 37 ′ 9 ″ E | |
| Topo map | 1815 II Oppkuven | |
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| particularities | Highest mountain in the province of Oslo | |
The Kjerkeberget (also Kirkeberget and Kyrkjeberget ) is a 630.8 moh. high hill in Norway .
It is the highest point in the province of Oslo and lies on the border between the municipalities of Oslo and Lunner in the province of Viken . Store Sandungen Lake extends south of the mountain, and Katnosa Lake in the northwest. The saddle height of the Kjerkeberget is 37.8 m, the dominance over the next higher mountain is about 2.7 km. At the top of the mountain there is a refuge that can be seen from afar.
The name of the hill can be translated as Kirchberg . The first part of the name, kjerke , stands for church . Its spelling and pronunciation comes from the local dialect. In Bokmål the correct name would be kirke and in Nynorsk kyrkje . The second part of the word represents the indefinite form of the word mountain . The Kjerkeberget therefore joins several other mountains in Norway, which all have names like Die Kirche or Kirchberg , due to their visual similarity to churches .
During the Second World War , the hill was used by the Milorg resistance organization as a landing point for parachute jumps . On October 4, 1942, the first landing took place by Milorg members Tor Helliesen, Jan Allan, Ruben Larsen and Johannes S. Andersen .
Web links
- Tour description on Fjellsjøkampen , published by DNT (Norwegian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Høyeste fjelltopp i hver kommune ( Norwegian ) Kartverket. December 3, 2015. Accessed December 29, 2015.
- ↑ Høyeste fjelltopp i hver kommune ( Norwegian ) Kartverket. December 3, 2015. Archived from the original on October 15, 2014. Retrieved on December 29, 2015.
- ↑ Odd Øyen (Ed.): Milorg D13 i kamp. Fra det hemmelige militære motstandsarbeidet i Oslo og omegn 1940–1945 ( Norwegian ), 2nd edition, Orion Verlag, Oslo 2007, ISBN 978-82-458-0839-1 , p. 235.