Lillehammer

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coat of arms map
Coat of arms of the municipality of Lillehammer
Lillehammer (Norway)
Lillehammer
Lillehammer
Basic data
Commune number : 3405
Province  (county) : Domestic
Administrative headquarters: Lillehammer
Coordinates : 61 ° 7 '  N , 10 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 61 ° 7 '  N , 10 ° 28'  E
Height : 440 moh.
Surface: 478.16 km²
Residents: 28,345  (Feb 27, 2020)
Population density : 59 inhabitants per km²
Language form : Bokmål
Postal code : N-2600
Structure: Centrum, Fåberg , Nordre Ål, Søre Ål, Roterud, Rudsbygd, Saksumdal, Vingar and Vingrom
Website:
traffic
Railway connection: Dovrebanen
politics
Mayor : Ingunn Trosholmen  ( Ap ) (2019)
Located in the province of Innlandet
Location of the municipality in the province of Innlandet

Lillehammer ( Klein Hamar ) is a city in Norway . It is located around 180 kilometers north of Oslo , on the north shore of Lake Mjøsa in the Gudbrandsdalen mountain valley . It was created by hosting the XVII. 1994 Winter Olympics known worldwide. As a result, the city was also the venue for a number of other important sporting events such as the 2008 European handball championship . In 2016, Lillehammer hosted the Winter Youth Olympic Games .

history

The first mention of Lillehammer is in the saga about Håkon Håkonsson , according to which the Birkebeiners stayed there in the winter of 1204/1205 before moving over the mountains to Østerdalen. The national sporting events Birkebeinerløypet ( cross-country skiing from Storåsen to Lillehammer, 21.3 kilometers, annually in September, for the first time in 1998) and Birkebeinerrennet (cross-country skiing between Rena and Lillehammer, 54 kilometers in classic style, annually in March, for the first time ) commemorate this great feat today 1932) and Birkebeinerrittet (bike race terrain from Rena to Mål, 88 kilometers, annually in August, for the first time in 2000). There is also a parchment in which a Thing (court) from 1390 with the name "Lithlæ Hamars kirku garde" (Lithlæ Hamars Church Cemetery) is mentioned.

The real history of the city of Lillehammer begins in 1827 when the small settlement was granted trading rights. The aim was to have a stopping point for travelers and a transhipment point for goods in a strategically favorable location at the northern end of Lake Mjøsa and at the southern end of the transport corridor in Gudbrandsdales. About 50 people lived here at the time. Two years later there were already 360. The place developed around the Hof Hammer (literally "mountain slope"), near today's town church. In 1842 Lillehammer received city rights. The merchant Ludvig Wiese acquired special services for the further development of the place.

In 1856 the steamship Skibladner was put into operation. It still runs between Lillehammer and Eidsvoll at the southern end of Mjøsa, from where travelers could take the train to Christiania (Oslo). This meant that the city could be reached quickly and easily at an early stage and, thanks to the favorable, dry internal climate, it developed into a recreation center for people with lung disease. The first tourists soon followed, who knew how to appreciate the guaranteed snow, and the artists who liked the special light. Furthermore, the first companies settled in, u. a. a cotton mill. The foundation of the open-air museum Maihaugen by the dentist Anders Sandvig in 1904 was important for the city's tourism. He collected old buildings from the region based on the example of the open-air museum in Stockholm and saved them from decay.

The first small hydropower plants were built along the Mesnaelva River around 1900, including an electricity plant, the fourth in the country. In the course of this, further industrial companies were able to establish themselves.

Hosting the 1994 Winter Olympics was important for the city.

politics

coat of arms

Blazon (description of the coat of arms): “Over blue and silver , split obliquely on the left, a historically dressed warrior with golden boots, red skirt and stockings on silver skis with red headgear, in his right hand a silver-tipped red lance and on the left a triangular shield in white and red, split each with a round symbol in mixed up colors , holding. On the shield the three-towered golden wall crown . "

Town twinning

Lillehammer has the following towns twinning closed:

There is also a friendly relationship with:

Attractions

Maihaugen Open Air Museum, Lillehammer, Garmo Stave Church

In addition to the Olympic centers, Lysgårds Ski Jump and the Norwegian Olympic Museum, there are a number of other attractions:

  • The Storgata is the city's pedestrian zone, known for its colorful wooden houses
  • The Lillehammer Art Museum was created as an official art contribution to the XVII. Olympic Winter Games 1994 (design by Snøhetta architects )
  • With over 200 buildings, Maihaugen is the largest open-air museum in Norway
  • There are several ski areas in the immediate vicinity of the city, such as Hafjell, Nordseter and Sjusjøen
  • Norwegian Olympic Museum (part of the Maihaugen Open Air Museum)
  • Norwegian Road Museum (Norwegian: Norsk Vegmuseum ) in the northern district of Fåberg
  • Hunderfossen Family Park is one of Norway's biggest tourist attractions and has a fairytale castle, a high ropes course, the fairy tale grotto Ivo Caprino and a race track

The municipality of Lillehammer is 477 square kilometers, has a north-south extension of 25.6 kilometers and an east-west extension of 37.9 kilometers. In addition to the city of Lillehammer, other larger settlements can be found in the municipality of Lillehammer with Fåberg and Jørstadmoen. The highest point in this municipality is the mountain Nevel fjell with a height of 1089 meters.

media

The Norwegian private radio station P4 Radio Hele Norge is headquartered in Lillehammer.

The Norwegian-American TV series " Lilyhammer " is set in Lillehammer. It is about the American mafioso Frank Tagliano / Giovanni "Johnny" Henriksen, who comes to Lillehammer in the witness protection program of the FBI and quickly gets involved in criminal activities again. The series has been broadcast in Germany since April 2013 on TNT Serie, since October 2014 on Arte and since July 2015 on Netflix.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Associated with Lillehammer

See also

Web links

Commons : Lillehammer  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Lillehammer  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistisk sentralbyrå - Befolkning
  2. ↑ a b Lillehammer communes vennskapsbysamarbeid og annen internasjonal contact. (PDF; 3.4 MB) Lillehammer kommune, January 8, 2012, accessed on January 9, 2012 (Norwegian).
  3. ↑ programm.ard.de: Lilyhammer (1/8) . Retrieved October 30, 2014.
  4. ↑ All three seasons Lilyhammer on Netflix tvdigital.de from July 29, 2015. Retrieved September 17, 2015.