Strendur

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The pier in the center of Strendur. In the background the green grass roof of the church.
Strendur at the mouth of the Skálafjørður in the south of Eysturoy.

Strendur ( Danish name : Strænder ) is a place in the Faroe Islands in the south of the island of Eysturoy . It belongs to the Faroese lake community ( Sjóvar kommuna ). In 2014 the place had 762 inhabitants. The zip code is FO-490.

The place

The church from 1834.
Location of Strendur in the Faroe Islands

Strendur is the largest town in Sjóvar kommuna and is located on the southern tip of a headland at the entrance to Tangafjørður between Eysturoy and Streymoy in the west and the longest Faroese fjord, Skálafjørður in the east. The end of the headland between Tangafjørður and Skálafjørður is called Raktangi .

Strendur is mentioned for the first time under the name Raktangi together with Kollafjørður and Nólsoy in a document from the period between 1350 and 1400.

The typical Faroese wooden church with the grass roof dates from 1834 and is called Sjóvar Kirkja in Faroese , probably because of the field name Við Sjógv (= by the sea) in the town center. The church and the pier form the center of the village.

In Strendur there is not only a fish fillet factory, but with Snældan one of the wool-processing textile companies in the Faroe Islands that produces both traditional and contemporary wool fashion that is not only sold at home. The company has existed since 1949.

In Strendur, in addition to Runavík , one of the approaches to the planned Skálafjordtunnel / Eysturoytunnel is to be built under Tangafjørður, which will lead to Sund am Kaldbaksfjørður and from there to Tórshavn. The new tunnel would significantly reduce the travel time from the south of Eysturoy to the capital. In 2014 the Faroese parliament decided to build two tunnels together, namely the Eysturoy tunnel and the Sandoy tunnel , both of which should be completed by 2021 at the latest. During the preliminary investigations for the construction of the 7.1 km + 2.1 km or 1.8 km long Eysturoy tunnel, to everyone's surprise, a very rare plant was discovered in the area of ​​the planned tunnel entrance near the center of Strendur, only here and on none occurs elsewhere in the Faroe Islands.

photos

  • Strendur. View from Raktangi to the north.

  • View from the headland of Raktangi in south direction with Nólsoy, Sandoy and Streymoy in the background.

  • The wool processing plant in Strendur.

Personalities

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The place name is derived from the plural form of the word "strond" for coast, seashore, beach .
  2. ^ GVC Young: From the Vikings to the Reformation - A Chronicle of the Faroe Islands Up to 1538 , Shearwater Press, Douglas, Isle of Man 1979
  3. ↑ Hvussu gomul er bygdin , heimabeiti.fo (in Faroese)
  4. ↑ About Snældan ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , islandwool.co.uk @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.islandwool.co.uk
  5. ↑ Fakta to Skálafjarðartunnilin , nes.fo
  6. ↑ Eysturoyartunnilin & Sandoyartunnilin ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , landsverk.fo @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landsverk.fo
  7. ↑ Kunnandi fundur um Eysturoyartunnilin , sjovarkommuna.fo, March 15, 2016

Coordinates: 62 ° 6 ′  N , 6 ° 46 ′  W