Ullandhaug (mountain)
The Ullandhaug is a mountain in the Norwegian city of Stavanger in the province of Rogaland .
It reaches a height of 136.8 meters and rises southwest of the Stavanger city center in the Ullandhaug district of the same name belonging to the Sørmarka district . The hill, which is wooded up to the top itself, is the second highest point in the Stavangers after Jåttånuten . On the mountain is the Ullandhaugtårnet transmission tower and memorial stones that go back to the Harald Tower . On the west side of the hill is the Stavanger Botanical Garden .
In 1895, the Harald Tower, designed as a memorial to the historic battle of the Hafrsfjord , was built on the then tree-free Ullandhaug . In order to better protect the area from the wind, a reforestation program was decided in 1908, which also affected the Ullandhaug and was implemented from 1910. In the 1930s the project was intensified with the involvement of schools. In 1938 a ski jump and a slalom slope were built on the steep south-west slope . Almost 10,000 visitors were counted to a competition in 1939.
During the Second World War , an anti-aircraft battery was built by German troops on the Ullandhaug and the Harald Tower was torn down.
In 1948 the ski jump, which was destroyed in a storm, was rebuilt, but later abandoned. Remnants of the hill can still be seen. In 1964 the telecommunications tower Ullandhaugtårnet was built on the site of the former Harald Tower, and to the west of it the 16 memorial stones that originally belonged to Harald Tower were erected.
literature
- Véronique Mignot-Bari, Stavanger and its surroundings , Trolls of Norway 2008, ISBN 978-82-92868-08-9 , page 67 ff.
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Coordinates: 58 ° 56 ' N , 5 ° 42' E