Velbastaður

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Houses in Velbastaður
Velbastaður
The place from afar. In the background the island of Koltur.

Velbastaður [ ˈvɛlbaˌstɛavʊɹ ] ( Danish Velbestad ) is a place in the Faroe Islands on the south west coast of the main island Streymoy .

The place

Velbastaður lies between Syðradalur in the north-west and Kirkjubøur in the south-east. Until the end of 2004, the village and the neighboring village of Kirkjubøur formed a separate municipality with 226 inhabitants (end of 2002). Since January 1, 2005 , both places belong to the capital city of Tórshavn . Along with the construction of the Gamlarætt ferry port , the road leading there from Tórshavn was also expanded. This also made Velbastaður more attractive as a place to live. In the following time there was a considerable increase in population, so that the place had 227 inhabitants in 2015. Velbastaður now has two schools and a kindergarten. However, the village does not have its own church; the residents use Olav's Church in Kirkjubøur, 5 km south. The postal code of Velbastaður is FO-176.

history

Velbastaður is one of the oldest places on the 18 islands in the North Atlantic. Remains of buildings from the Viking Age have been found in the district of Fossdalur . In 1349 the entire population is said to have died of the plague . The place name is mentioned in writing for the first time in 1584. It appears there in the Danish form Valbøsted . Velbastaður is the only place on the Faroe Islands that ends in -staður . All sorts of conjectures have been made about the origin and meaning of the place name without any satisfactory result.

The natural scientist Nicolai Mohr (1742–1790), who came from the Faroe Islands and worked with Jens Christian Svabo , already undertook his first ancient studies in Velbastaður as part of his three-year exploration work on the Faroe Islands, which he began in 1776.

In 2016 half of was during archaeological excavations Anglo-Saxon silver penny ( silver penny ) from the reign of the elder Edward , King of Wessex (r. 899-924), discovered. In the summer of 2016, a rare example of a gold-plated silver finger ring with a cross was found in the same place.

Personalities

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On page 64 in: Arne Thorsteinsson: Forn búseting í Føroyum . In: Fróðskaparrit , 26, 1978
  2. ↑ Hvussu gomul er bygdin? , heimabeiti.fo
  3. ↑ On page 34: “Valbøsted”. (PDF) Jarðarbókin 1584, history.fo
  4. ^ Karl Gustav Ljunggren: Kirkjubøur, Velbastaður og Tórshavn , pp. 9–11, Fróðskaparrit vol. 4, 1955
  5. ^ Mohr, Nicolai . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 11 : Maar – Müllner . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1897, p. 345 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
  6. ↑ Funnu 1,100 ára gamal mynt á Velbastað . In: Vikublaðið , September 19, 2016, p. 6

Coordinates: 61 ° 59 ′  N , 6 ° 51 ′  W