Stårheim

Stårheim
Stårheim
Basic data
Country	Norway
Province  (fylke)	Vestland
Municipality  (commune) :	City
Coordinates :	61 ° 55 '  N , 5 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 61 ° 55 '  N , 5 ° 45'  E
Residents :	439 (2001)
Height :	2  moh.
traffic
Street:	Rv15 , Fv661
Next international airport :	Bergen Airport

Stårheim is a village in the Norwegian municipality of Stad in the province of Vestland . It is located at the edge of the Stårheimdalen valley, on the north bank of the Eidsfjord . It is one of the oldest settlements on the Nordfjord and is about twelve kilometers from Nordfjordeid .

history

Stårheim Church

The place has about 700 inhabitants and a history that goes back to the Middle Ages.

Culture and sights

music

• Stårheim Skulekorps

Around 30 members of the Stårheim Skule wind orchestra, organized as a music corps with uniform, similar to a military music corps.

Buildings

• Starheim Church

Listed wooden hall church from 1864 with attached cemetery , built by Christian Heinrich Grosch .

Sports

With Stårheim Idrettslag, the village has its own sports club, founded in 1935 with the sections football , handball , athletics , cross-country skiing , ski jumping and biathlon . The club's biathlon section in particular is very successful and known through the biathlete and cross-country skier Ronny Hafsås , who was born in Stårheim and still competes for Stårheim IL.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Riksvei 15 and Fylkesvei 661 run through the village . A regular ferry connects Stårheim across the north fjord with Isane in Bremanger municipality .

education

• Stårheim Barnehage

Kindergarten , built in 1989, for children between one and six years. Most of the children come directly from Stårheim, some also from Kjølsdalen and Haugen as well as from Nordfjordeid .

• Stårheim skule:

Primary school with classes from the first to the seventh grade. A total of nine teachers currently teach around 50 students per year.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Ronny Hafsås (* 1985), biathlete and cross-country skier

Web links

• Jarle Åsebø: Stålheimen bygdehistoria. Retrieved February 19, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} om skulen , starheim.skule.no, accessed on February 17, 2015 (Norwegian)
2. ↑ Stårheim Skulekorps ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , starheimsbygda.no, accessed February 17, 2015 (Norwegian) 
3. ↑ Stårheim kyrkje , kirkesok.no, accessed on February 17, 2015 (Norwegian)
4. ↑ Skiskyttarane frå Stårheim , nrk.no, accessed on February 17, 2015 (Norwegian)
5. ↑ Ronny HAFSAS. In: Datacenter. International Biathlon Union, accessed February 19, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Topographic map of Norway (section with Stårheim) , ut.no, accessed on February 17, 2015.
7. ↑ Rutetider for Stårheim-Isane (Lokalrute 14-814) ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Reise2.fjord1.no, accessed February 17, 2015 (Norwegian) 
8. ↑ Om barnehagen ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , starheim.barnehageside.no, accessed February 17, 2015 (Norwegian)