Nesbyen

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Nesbyen is a town in Nes municipality in the county of Buskerud, Norway. Nes is the administrative center of Nes municipality. Nes is located in the traditional district of Hallingdal. ^[1]^[2]

Nes is a municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Hallingdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Nesbyen.

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 Northern 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.

Summary

Nesbyen has a population of about 3,500 inhabitants. It is located on the Bergen Line railroad which runs between Oslo and Bergen. Nesbyen Station was opened in 1907 when the Bergen Railway was opened to Gulsvik. Nesbyen is located on Norwegian National Road 7.

The Bergen Line or the Bergen Railway, is a 371-kilometre (231 mi) long scenic standard gauge railway line between Bergen and Hønefoss, Norway. The name is often applied for the entire route from Bergen via Drammen to Oslo, where the passenger trains go, a distance of 496 kilometres (308 mi). It is the highest mainline railway line in Northern Europe, crossing the Hardangervidda plateau at 1,237 metres (4,058 ft) above sea level.

Oslo is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. Founded in the year 1040 as Ánslo, and established as a kaupstad or trading place in 1048 by Harald Hardrada, the city was elevated to a bishopric in 1070 and a capital under Haakon V of Norway around 1300. Personal unions with Denmark from 1397 to 1523 and again from 1536 to 1814 reduced its influence, and with Sweden from 1814 to 1905 it functioned as a co-official capital. After being destroyed by a fire in 1624, during the reign of King Christian IV, a new city was built closer to Akershus Fortress and named Christiania in the king's honour. It was established as a municipality (formannskapsdistrikt) on 1 January 1838. The city's name was spelled Kristiania between 1877 and 1897 by state and municipal authorities. In 1925 the city was renamed Oslo.

Nesbyen Station is a railway station located at Nesbyen Nes, Norway. The station is served by six daily express trains operated by Norwegian State Railways. The station was opened as part of the Bergen Line between Bergen and Gulsvik in 1907.

Gamle Nes is the oldest part of Nesbyen. Nesbyen was an early administrative center for Hallingdal. Mainly buildings in Gamle Nes dated to before 1900. Nesbyen is surrounded by mountains on several sides, with good roads to most mountain areas. Hallingnatten is the municipality's highest point, 1,314 meters above sea level. Hallingdal Museum, founded in 1899 and one of the oldest open air museums in Norway, is headquartered in Nesbyen. Hallingdal Museum is organized with professional, administrative and operational responsibility for the museums in Hallingdal.^[3]

Hallingdal Museum Nesbyen is an open-air museum at Nesbyen within Nes in Buskerud, Norway.

Nesbyen is listed as the location with the highest recorded temperature in Norway, with a record of 35.6°C. set on 20 June 1970.^[4]

Nes kraftverk is a hydroelectric power station 4 km north of Nesbyen. The power plant was commissioned in 1967, and takes advantage of a drop of 285 meters from the Strandefjorden. The power plant is the largest and lowest in Hallingdal River watershead (Hallingdalsvassdraget). There are installed four Francis turbines of 70 MW each. The normal annual production is about 1330 GWh. Besides intake from Strandefjorden, water is taken from the rivers Ridola, Lya and Votna. It also transferred water from the river Rukkedøla through a separate tunnel. The power plant is owned and operated by E-CO Energi.^[5]

The Nes Power Station is a hydroelectric power station located in the municipality Nes in Buskerud, Norway. The facility operates at an installed capacity of 250 MW. The average annual production is 1,330 GWh. The station is operated by E-CO Vannkraft.

Votna is a lake in the municipality of Odda in Hordaland county, Norway. The 4.6-square-kilometre (1.8 sq mi) lake lies about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) straight east of the village of Røldal. The European route E134 highway runs along the northern part of the lake. There is a dam on the southwest end of the lake which regulates the level of the lake for purposes of hydroelectric power generation.

E-CO Energi is a Norwegian power company and after Statkraft the second largest producer of electricity in Norway.

Nes Church in Hallingdal (Nes kirke i Hallingdal) was constructed during 1861. The church has 500 seats and was constructed of timber on a foundation of natural stone. The design was by architect Georg Andreas Bull. Nes Chapel (Nes kapell) at Nes Cemetery was built in 1953-54. It was made as an imitation of the Nes Stave Church, which was demolished almost a hundred years earlier. ^[6]^[7]

Georg Andreas Bull was a Norwegian architect and chief building inspector in Christiania for forty years. He was among the leading architects in the country, and left his mark on Norwegian building history both as a creative architect, and through his measurement studies and archeological research.

Notable residents

Olaf Øen (1925–2009), Norwegian politician for the Labour Party
Kristin Hille Valla, Norwegian politician for the Centre Party

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References

↑ "Nesbyen". lokalhistoriewiki.no. Retrieved October 1, 2017.
↑ "Nes kommune (Buskerud)". lokalhistoriewiki.no. Retrieved October 1, 2017.
↑ Welcome to the Old Town in Hallingda (Nesbyen sentrum) Archived 2013-12-04 at the Wayback Machine .
↑ Høyeste lufttemperatur (Meteorologisk institutt) Archived 2011-06-21 at the Wayback Machine .
↑ Nes kraftverk (E-CO Energi)
↑ "Nes kirke i Hallingdal". Terra Buskerud - Historieboka. Retrieved October 1, 2017.
↑ "Nes kapell". Buskerud Kirke. Retrieved October 1, 2017.

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[1] "Nesbyen". lokalhistoriewiki.no. Retrieved October 1, 2017.

[2] "Nes kommune (Buskerud)". lokalhistoriewiki.no. Retrieved October 1, 2017.

[3] Welcome to the Old Town in Hallingda (Nesbyen sentrum) Archived 2013-12-04 at the Wayback Machine .

[4] Høyeste lufttemperatur (Meteorologisk institutt) Archived 2011-06-21 at the Wayback Machine .

[5] Nes kraftverk (E-CO Energi)

[6] "Nes kirke i Hallingdal". Terra Buskerud - Historieboka. Retrieved October 1, 2017.

[7] "Nes kapell". Buskerud Kirke. Retrieved October 1, 2017.