Notodden

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Coat of arms of the Notodden commune
Notodden (Norway)
Notodden
Notodden
Basic data
Commune number : 3808
Province  (county) : Vestfold and Telemark
Administrative headquarters: Notodden
Coordinates : 59 ° 38 '  N , 9 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 59 ° 38 '  N , 9 ° 11'  E
Height : 36 moh.
Surface: 983.89 km²
Residents: 13,049  (Feb 27, 2020)
Population density : 13 inhabitants per km²
Language form : neutral
Postal code : 3672
Website:
politics
Mayor : Gry Fuglestveit  ( Ap ) (2015)
Located in the province of Vestfold og Telemark
Location of the municipality in the province of Vestfold og Telemark

Notodden is a municipality in the province of Vestfold og Telemark ( Norway ). The capital, 120 km southwest of Oslo on Heddalsvann, was granted city rights in 1913. The highest point in the municipality is Tverrgrønut, 1306 meters high .

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coat of arms

Blazon : "Azure, a silver waves pile on both sides accompanied by two united at the base flash couples , above shield all Windwärts , down schildfußwärts ."

economy

Sawmills and wood processing factories were established on the Tinnelva River in the first third of the 19th century. In 1905 the Norsk Hydro group, founded by Sam Eyde and Kristian Birkeland , started producing artificial saltpeter and fertilizer salt . For a few years the tranquil place turned into a kind of Norwegian Klondike . The prerequisite for this hectic industrial boom was the intensive use of hydropower in Telemark, both for the chemical industry, as in the case of Norsk Hydro, and for wood and iron processing at Tinfos .

Fertilizer production in Notodden was scaled back in the course of the 20th century and later stopped completely. In the chemical industry, Notodden is still a production site for plastics and foils. There are also suppliers for the armaments industry in Kongsberg and for unmanned submarines for use, for example, on oil drilling platforms.

The 2018 resulting from the College Southeast Norway University Southeast Norway has a campus in Notodden, are formed on the teacher since 1895 and has been teaching since 1938 art and design. A special feature is the offer of online courses for students from all over Norway. With five other departments, the university offers a total of more than 18,000 students training places, making it the fourth largest university in Norway.

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The city has a train station on the Bratsbergbane .

Culture and sights

Heddal stave church

A few kilometers to the west is the city of the famous, originally built in the 13th century stave church of Heddal . With a length of 25 meters and a height of 29 meters, it is the largest preserved stave church in Norway. The Heddal bygdetun open-air museum is located about 300 m from the stave church .

In 2015, the almost completely preserved industrial sites of the early 20th century were added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites together with neighboring Rjukan as sites of industrial culture in Rjukan and Notodden .

With the Notodden Blues Festival, Notodden annually organizes one of the largest blues festivals in Europe.

Burial mound

There are two Iron Age burial mounds in the village . The bigger one is called Semhaugen. It has a diameter of 20 meters and a height of 3 meters. The other has a diameter of 15 meters and a height of 2.5 meters. It has a large crater at the top.

Personalities

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistisk sentralbyrå - Befolkning
  2. ↑ About USN , Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge, accessed on April 22, 2020 (English)
  3. ↑ Heddal Stave Church Stavechurch.com, accessed April 22, 2020 (Norwegian)
  4. ↑ Sites in Norway, Germany, Israel, UK and USA inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List Unesco.org, accessed April 22, 2020