Tusenårssted

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Plaque at Tusenårssted in Vennesla

The Tusenårsted of a municipality or a province ( county ) in Norway is the place chosen to represent the transition to the 21st century. The municipalities and provinces should determine this location themselves. The word Tusenårssted can be translated as millennium or millennium place.

Fylkestusenårssteder

The Fylketusenårssteder should be elected by 2005 and are also related to the centenary of the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905. The places can be (buildings), institutions, cultural monuments, nature or landscapes that are of great historical importance , cultural or social value, or in any other way exceptional. The meaning should extend to the entire municipality or province and should show why this place was chosen. A guideline for the selection of Tusenårssteder was drawn up by the Norwegian Department of Culture and Churches and the provinces were supported by the state. For the Fylke-Tusenårssteder it was made a condition that they have a national meaning, i.e. for the whole country of Norway. The places must be or be made easily accessible to the public and must e.g. B. be marked by a board.

Kommunetusenårssteder

The Tusenårssteder of the municipalities are supposed to be "physical manifestations of the millennium " and were determined after local elections. There was a choice of lively marketplaces, promenades along a river, port facilities, monuments, but also quiet places outside. The municipalities received NOK 119,500 (~ € 15,000) for the preparation of the Tusenårssteder from Tusenårsskiftet-Norge 2000 A / S , a 100% state-owned company that was commissioned as early as 1905 to plan and hold the celebrations for the dissolution of the union.

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