Tromøy
| Tromøy | ||
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| Waters | Skagerrak | |
| Geographical location | 58 ° 28 ' N , 8 ° 51' E | |
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| length | approx. 12 km | |
| width | approx. 3.5 km | |
| surface | 29 km² | |
| Residents | about 6000 | |
Tromøy is the largest island in Sørlandet . It used to be an independent municipality in the Fylke Aust-Agder ; today it is part of the Arendal municipality .
location
In the southwest of the island is Hove . On the coast along the Skagerrak there is a moraine landscape that is under nature protection. In the north, the island is separated from the mainland by the approximately 12 km long Tromøysund strait and towards the island of Hisøy in the west is the 2 km long Galtesund strait .
The Tromøybrua Bridge has been connecting to the mainland since 1961. Before the bridge was built, a car ferry drove from Barbu (district in Arendal) to Skilsøy on Tromøy. Today there is still a passenger ferry.
Tromøy Municipality
From 1837 Tromøy was part of the Austre Moland formannskapsdistrikt along with Barbu and Stokken . From May 1, 1878 Tromøy and Barbu formed two separate municipalities. At that time Tromøy had 2,320 inhabitants. From 1878 to 1992 Tromøy received the status of an independent municipality and comprised several small islands, for example Merdø and Tromlingene . On January 1, 1992 Tromøy, Hisøy , Moland and Øyestad were merged with Arendal to form a new municipality, the Arendal Municipality. In the meantime, the population of Tromøy had grown to 4,711.
history
The name Tromøy comes from Thruma and means threshold, an “edge” that rises out of the sea.
The name Hove is derived from the Norwegian word hov , which means an old, pagan place of worship. In the vicinity of Hove , settlements with a total of 60 barrows were found, dating back to 1800 BC. Are dated to AD 1000. This indicates that there was settlement on Tromøy from the Bronze Age . The oldest documented farms are Gjervold and Sandum from 1320 and Hove , Bjelland and Lien from 1593.
The Yngling saga tells that Harald Granraude , King of Agder in the 9th century, had his royal seat on Tromøy and that Queen Åsa Haraldsdatter , his daughter, one year old Halvdan Svarte , her son, after the death of Gudrød Veidekonge , hers Man, took it back to Tromøy. Many place names on Tromøy still come from the Viking Age today, for example Alve , Hove and the place of origin Kongshavn (also Kongshamn) with 772 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2006).
Leisure activities
Tromøy offers a wide range of leisure activities, such as sports clubs, a choir, a discotheque or paintball .
Trauma is the largest sports club on the island, where the football and handball departments are particularly important. Both have many teams divided by age, including a senior team. Trauma Håndball is the club with the most age groups in Sørlandet . Another notable association is the Tromøy fritidsklubb , whose activities range from a discotheque to regular softgun competitions to mini-sing, ten-sing and maxi-sing. There is also a brass band on the island called Tromøy Skolemusikkorps , which was founded in 1936.
In the summer of 2007 the Hovefestival was held for the first time. With 72,000 participants it was the largest festival in Norway.
Churches
Tromøy was always a church parish in the deanery Arendal. Two churches belong to it; the Tromøy kirke east of Hove , a stone church from the Middle Ages of 1150, and in Færvik the Færvik kirke from 1884. Furthermore, there are still in Kongshavn the chapel Kongshavn kapell .
Personalities
Karl Ove Knausgård (1968) grew up in Tromøy.
TBE risk area
Tromøy is one of the few places in Norway where the TBE virus can be transmitted by the common wood tick . It can cause some form of encephalitis and meningitis . However, only 0.1–1% of the ticks in the risk areas are virus carriers.
Tromøybrua (2007)
Forest on Hove (Photo: Ken, 2006)
Hovefestival (2011)
Tromøy church (2006)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tromøya. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Arendal commune, archived from the original on December 3, 2013 ; Retrieved December 6, 2012 (Norwegian). 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.
- ↑ Kristoffer B. Fürstenberg: Robyn clear for Hove. Agderposten, January 11, 2011, accessed December 6, 2012 (Norwegian).
- ↑ Håvard Kristoffersen Hansen: 20,000 rockers Hove. Verdens Gang , June 29, 2011, accessed December 6, 2012 .
- ↑ Skogflåttencefalitt (TBE) i Norge. (No longer available online.) Nasjonalt folkehelseinstitutt, October 31, 2007, archived from the original on June 28, 2009 ; Retrieved December 6, 2012 (Norwegian). 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.
Web links
- Aust-Agder Kulturhistoriske Senter: Tromøy kommune (1837–1993) on the Arkivportalen.no website (Norwegian)