Nordfjordeid
Nordfjordeid is a place on the Norwegian Eidsfjord , the north-eastern arm of the Nordfjord . It is the administrative seat of the municipality of Stad and belongs to the province of Vestland . In 2017 the place had 2938 inhabitants.
location
Nordfjordeid is located at the eastern end of the Eidsfjord. The European route 39 , which leads from Aalborg in Denmark via Bergen to Trondheim , runs through the village . The Presteelva stream flows north of the town center and the Eidselva river to the south , both of which flow into the fjord in the locality. The island of Storøya lies in the Eidselva .
history
As early as the first half of the 17th century, the parade ground Nordfjordeid was built south of the village and is now a listed building. The military shaped the development of Nordfjordeid for a long time.
On December 12, 1944, the ship Wartheland sank after an aircraft attack in the port of Nordfjordeid. The sunken wreck is listed as a cultural monument.
Nordfjordeid is the center of the breeding of Norwegian fjord horses . The Norwegian Fjord Horse Center is also located there.
Buildings and cultural institutions
The town center is designated as a monument area Eidsgata og Tverrgata and is characterized by historic white wooden houses. In the village there is the listed church of Eid , built in 1849, and the Bedehuset Betania, built in 1905 . Although Nordfjordeid is a rather smaller place, it has had the Nordfjordeid Opera House since 2009 . In addition, the Kulturhuset Gamlebanken cultural center is located in the center of town .
In the southern part of the town center is the listed former Hotel Yris .
Norway's largest Viking ship, over 30 meters long, was found in the municipality. A reconstruction of the ship, the My Klebustskipet , is in a museum that opened in 2019.
Since 2002, the Malakoff Rock Festival has taken place in Nordfjordeid once a year .
Personalities
In 1842 the mathematician Sophus Lie (1842–1899) was born in Nordfjordeid. The congress center bears his name. The Langeland memorial was erected on the parade ground in Nordfjordeid for the Norwegian major Oliver H. Langeland (1887–1958) . Another monument, the Maurstad Memorial , commemorates the actor Alfred Maurstad (1896–1967). In Eidsgata there is a memorial plaque for the sailor Ernst Martin Totland (1905–1943) who died in World War II . The Norwegian soccer player Azar Karadaş (* 1981) also comes from here. Other personalities associated with the location are:
- Harald Aabrekk (* 1956), soccer player and coach
- Marianne Kjørstad (* 1970), skier
- Kari Standal Pavelich , opera director
- Michael Pavelich , conductor
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in kulturminnesok.no (Norwegian)
- ^ The Norwegian Fjord Horse Center . Visit Norway website.
- ↑ site of Sagastad Drift AS and Stiftinga Sagastad (accessed on April 9, 2019)
- ↑ Sophus Lie Conference Center (Engl.) ( Memento of 26 November 2009 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 17, 2016.
Coordinates: 61 ° 54 ' N , 5 ° 59' E