Nyrud (Finnmark)
Nyrud is a cleared island at the end of Riksvei 885 in the southern Pasviktal in the Norwegian municipality of Sør-Varanger , 108 kilometers south of Kirkenes . Today it houses Norway's smallest police station, which is operated by two border police officers during the summer months. Nyrud is the southernmost town of the Pasvik valley and is located in the Pasvik nature reserve on the west bank of the Norwegian-Russian border river Pasvikelva , the east bank belongs to Russia . The Øvre-Pasvik National Park is located about 10 km southwest of Nyrud .
history
Nyrud was created in the course of the Norwegian inland colonization , with which the Norwegian government tried after the dissolution of the union in 1905 to limit emigration from Norway and to bring settlers to the sparsely populated northern Norway . Ingvald Eriksen from Nordland and his Finnish wife Marie started clearing the forest in 1918 and built the first house in 1920. The farm grew and developed into the wealthiest farm in the Pasvik Valley. A larger residential building was completed in 1936 and also served as accommodation for passing state employees and as a telegraph station .
During the Second World War , Nyrud was occupied by German soldiers. Traces of 20 barracks and two blown bridges can still be seen in the area today. The courtyard was one of the few buildings to survive the devastation of Finnmark's infrastructure as part of the Northern Lights operation . In 1953, the Eriksen couple sold Nyrud to the Ministry of Justice, which set up the police station from 1965. The original house burned down in 1995, the house from 1936 is now a listed building and is still in use.
Web links
- Nyrud on Norgeskart.no
Individual evidence
- ↑ Savnet kjæresten på Norges minste politistasjon , NRK, accessed on May 26, 2020 (Norwegian)
- ↑ a b Kompleks 720 Nyrud Politistasjon , regjeringen.no, accessed on May 26, 2020 (Norwegian)
Coordinates: 69 ° 8 ′ 50 ″ N , 29 ° 14 ′ 38.1 ″ E