Viðarlundin í Niðara Hoydali

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View of the forest in the Hoydalar valley
Hoydalar

Viðarlundin í Niðara Hoydali is a forest in Tórshavn , the capital of the Faroe Islands on the island of Streymoy . It is located east of the Hvítanesvegur arterial roadin the relatively sheltered Hoydalar valleyin the northern valley of the city. Since the grammar school " Føroya Studentaskúli " islocated in its immediate vicinity, it is also often called Viðarlundin við Studentaskúlan . The Faroese word viðarlund literally means "wood" and describes a park or forest in the Faroe Islands, of which only 0.06% is forested.

Probably no other forest or park in the Faroe Islands was created in such a historical area as Viðarlundin í Niðara Hoydali . Traces of grain cultivation from the time around 600 - 650, i.e. H. the era of the earliest settlement of the Faroe Islands. The name of the valley, Hoydalar , literally means Heutäler . The watercourse of the Hoydalsá flows through the valley, which flows into the Nólsoyarfjørður south of Hoyvík .

At the beginning of the 20th century, a sanatorium for people suffering from tuberculosis , a disease that could not be treated with medication at the time , was built in Hoydalar . At the request of the doctors, the Danish company Det Danske Hedelseskab began building a forest at the sanatorium in 1913 in order to improve the patient's recovery by improving the air. A few years earlier, trees had already been successfully planted in the area of ​​today's Tórshavner Stadtpark .

After the sanatorium was closed, the forest continued to be maintained and even expanded. It contains some spruce trees that were planted around 1918 and , with a height of over 18 m and a trunk diameter of more than 77 cm, are among the tallest trees in the Faroe Islands.

The Viðarlundin í Niðara Hoydali today covers an area of ​​45,300 m² on the property corridor 19 and an area of ​​4,390 m² on the property corridor 20 to the north. With a total area of ​​49,690 m², it is one of the largest forests and parks in the Faroe Islands.

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  1. ↑ Højgaard, Andrias: Træplanting í í Føroyum eina Old 47. Tórshavn 1989th
  2. ↑ Debes, Hans Jacob : Føroya søga , Vol. 1, p. 65. Tórshavn 1990.
  3. ↑ Højgaard, Andrias: Træplanting í í Føroyum eina Old , 38. Tórshavn 1989th
  4. ↑ Højgaard, Andrias: Træplanting í í Føroyum eina Old , S. 93. Tórshavn 1989th
  5. ↑ Elttør, Eyðun : Uppskot til løgtingslóg um viðarvøkstur og frílendisrøkt , Tab. (Talva) 2, Løgting, March 4, 2003

Coordinates: 62 ° 1 ′ 39 ″  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 2 ″  W.