Steinstolpen på Grodås
Stone Stolpen på Grodås is a monument in the Norwegian municipality Volda belonging site Grodås in the province of Møre og Romsdal . It commemorates the establishment of the region's first telephone connection in 1893.
location
The memorial is located in the center of Grodås immediately west of the European route 39 , not far from the eastern bank of the Hornindalsvatnet .
history
It was erected on July 9, 1993 and is a copy of a stone telephone pole built in Grodås in 1893. In the 1890s, private telephone companies built the Eid - Hornindal - Sunnylven - Stryn - Innvik route . A head office was set up in Grodås. At this point a stone mast in the form of a building stone was set. On the stone there were five insulators intended for the lines. As an inscription on the upper end of the stone 17 de May 1893 was written. May 17th is Norwegian National Day as Constitutional Day . Later the mast and its facilities disappeared again.
On the 100th anniversary, a copy of the old stone was then erected in cooperation with the Norsk Telemuseum at roughly the same location. The municipality bought the stone from Nergård Steinindustri AS in Eide. The museum organized the installation, copies of the technical equipment and the memorial plaque attached to the front of the stone. Representatives of the communities that worked together in the 1890s, from Televerket , the Norsk Telemuseum and the oldest employees of the provincial telephone companies who were still alive at the time were present for the inauguration .
layout
Like the original stone, today's stone has five insulators on its tip. Immediately below is the inscription:
17th May
1893
In the lower part of the stone there is a plaque with the Norwegian inscription:
TELEPHONES I NORDFJORD 100 ÅR
NORDFJORDS TELEFONSELSKAB
1893–1908
Gjenreist av Hornindal kommune
and Norsk Telemuseum 1993
( German : 100 years telephone in Nordfjord, Nordfjords Telefonesellschaft 1893–1908; rebuilt by the Hornindal municipality and the Norwegian Telemuseum in 1993 )
The mast is surrounded by four small stone pillars connected with chains.
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Coordinates: 61 ° 58 ′ 7.2 ″ N , 6 ° 31 ′ 31.5 ″ E