Hvittingfoss

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Hvittingfoss is a village in the municipality of Kongsberg in Buskerud, Norway. Hvittingfoss has traditionally been associated with the manufacture of pulp, paper and paper products.^[1]

Kongsberg is a town and municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. Kongsberg is the administration center in Kongsberg municipality. The city is located on the river Numedalslågen at the entrance to the valley of Numedal. The municipality of Kongsberg was established on 1 January 1838. The rural municipalities of Ytre Sandsvær and Øvre Sandsvær were merged into the municipality of Kongsberg on 1 January 1964.

Buskerud is a county in Norway, bordering Akershus, Oslo, Oppland, Sogn og Fjordane, Hordaland, Telemark and Vestfold. The county extends from the Oslofjord and Drammensfjorden in the southeast to Hardangervidda mountain range in the northwest. The county administration is located in Drammen. Together with Akershus and Østfold, Buskerud will form the new, larger county Viken, from 1 January 2020.

Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northwestern Europe whose territory comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula; the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard are also part of the Kingdom of Norway. The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub-Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the kingdom. Norway also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land.

History

Prior to the municipal merger in 1964, Hvittingfoss was in Ytre Sandsvær. Hvittingfoss borders Lardal and Hof. Hvittingfoss is located about 30 kilometers from Kongsberg. The river Numedalslågen runs through the village. The village population (2005) is 1,016.

Ytre Sandsvær is a former municipality in Buskerud county, Norway.

Lardal was a municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Svarstad. The parish of Laurdal was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838. The municipality was divided into the parishes of Svarstad, Styrvoll, and Hem.

Hof was a municipality in Vestfold county, Norway, until its merge into Holmestrand on Jan. 1, 2018. The administrative centre of the former municipality was the village of Hof. The municipality of Hof was established on 1 January 1838. Hof had 3,031 inhabitants as of 1 January 2002.

Industrial development was driven by the waterfalls of Hvittingfoss as far back as the 17th century. In 1651, there were reportedly five sawmills in the northern waterfall, called Nord-fossen. The royal privileges of Vittingfossen was given to the counts in Jarlsberg and Larvik. Industrialist Christian August Anker (1840-1912) developed Hønefoss Træsliberi which started its production of wood pulp in 1881.^[2]

A waterfall is an area where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops in the course of a stream or river. Waterfalls also occur where meltwater drops over the edge of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf.

Jarlsberg was a former countship that forms a part of today's Vestfold county in Norway.

Larvik (help·info) is a town and municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Larvik. The municipality of Larvik has about 46,364 inhabitants. Larvik covers 530 km², which makes it the largest municipality in Vestfold County by size. The municipality has a 110 km coastline, only shorter than that of neighboring Sandefjord.

The pulp and paper group Edward Lloyd Limited, owner of Lloyd's Illustrated London Newspaper and the Daily Chronicle in London, operated huge paper mills in Kemsley, England. The firm bought Hønefoss Træsliberi in 1902 in order to obtain a ready supply of wood pulp. In 1906, the Lloyd company built a paper mill on Hvittingfoss with a capacity of approx. 2000 ton press of thin paper for the Asian market. In 1916, the Lloyd firm sold all plants and waterfalls rights to a consortium led by a Captain Hjalmar Johansen. The Lloyd interests reserved the right to lease and operate the plants for 14 years. In 1932 the Lloyd company completed its business on Hvittingfoss after 30 years of operation.^[3]

Edward Lloyd was a London publisher. His early output of serialised fiction brought Sweeney Todd, a gentleman vampire and many romantic heroes to a new public – those without reading material that they could both afford to buy and enjoy reading. Its popularity earned him the means to move into newspapers.

Kemsley is a suburb of Sittingbourne in Kent, England.

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to the west and Scotland to the north-northwest. The Irish Sea lies west of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.

Vittingfoss power plant

Vittingfoss power plant (Vittingfoss kraftverk) is located on the Numedalslågen just off the center of Hvittingfoss. The power plant was a built in conjunction with a dam in 1910. The plant has four units, all with vertical Francis turbines; the two eldest of approximately 4.5 MW each were put into operation in 1919 and 1920, the third (4.8 MW) in 1949 and the fourth (6.8 MW) in 1981.^[4]

Numedalslågen is a river located in the counties of Vestfold and Buskerud in southeastern Norway. It is one of the longest rivers in Norway.

Tuft Church

Tuft Church (Tuft kyrkje) is located just outside Hvittingfoss. The church was erected in 1880. The edifice is made of brick and has 150 seats. It was constructed as a replacement for Tupta Kirkja a stave church which had dated to the 1200s.^[5]

Stave church Medieval wooden church with post and beam construction prevalent in Norway

A stave church is a medieval wooden Christian church building once common in north-western Europe. The name derives from the building's structure of post and lintel construction, a type of timber framing where the load-bearing ore-pine posts are called stafr in Old Norse. Two related church building types also named for their structural elements, the post church and palisade church, are often called 'stave churches'.

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References

↑ Geir Thorsnæs. "Hvittingfoss". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
↑ "Christian August Anker". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
↑ Edward Lloyd (Grace's Guide)
↑ Knut A Rosvold. "Vittingfoss kraftverk". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
↑ Sigrid Marie Christie, Håkon Christie. "Tuft kirke". Norges Kirker. Retrieved October 1, 2016.

Other sources

Anker-Rasch, Ole (2006) Christian August Anker - Industripioner og grunder fra Rød Herregård (Oslo: Andresen & Butenssschøn)

External links

Hvittingfoss primary and secondary school

Coordinates: 59°29′N10°01′E / 59.483°N 10.017°E / 59.483; 10.017

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[1] Geir Thorsnæs. "Hvittingfoss". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved October 1, 2016.

[2] "Christian August Anker". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved October 1, 2016.

[3] Edward Lloyd (Grace's Guide)

[4] Knut A Rosvold. "Vittingfoss kraftverk". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved October 1, 2016.

[5] Sigrid Marie Christie, Håkon Christie. "Tuft kirke". Norges Kirker. Retrieved October 1, 2016.