Veitastrond | |
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  Veitastrond Location in Sogn og Fjordane county  Veitastrond Veitastrond (Norway) | |
| Coordinates: 61°28′21″N07°02′38″E / 61.47250°N 7.04389°E Coordinates: 61°28′21″N07°02′38″E / 61.47250°N 7.04389°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| Region | Western Norway |
| County | Sogn og Fjordane |
| District | Sogn |
| Municipality | Luster |
| Elevation | 174 m (571 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Post Code | 6878 Veitastrond |
Veitastrond is a small village in the western part of the municipality of Luster in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is located near the Jostedalsbreen glacier, and Jostedalsbreen National Park surrounds the village on three sides. Veitastrond is located at the northern end of an isolated valley. There is only one road access to Veitastrond, a 30-kilometre (19 mi) long road heading northwest from the village of Hafslo, the nearest urban center. Veitastrond sits about 45 kilometres (28 mi) from the village of Gaupne, the municipal center.
Luster is a municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is located at the end of the Sognefjorden in the traditional district of Sogn. The administrative centre is the village of Gaupne. Other villages in Luster include Fortun, Hafslo, Indre Hafslo, Jostedal, Luster, Nes, Ornes, Skjolden, Solvorn, and Veitastrond.
Sogn og Fjordane is a county in western Norway, bordering Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, Buskerud, and Hordaland. The county administration is in the village of Hermansverk in Leikanger municipality. The largest town in the county is Førde.
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.
The village has 123 inhabitants who share a small shop, a school (9 pupils), and Veitastrond Chapel. The economy is primarily based on agriculture. The Storelvi river passes by the village before emptying into the long lake Veitastrondsvatnet.
Veitastrond Chapel is a chapel in Luster Municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is located in the village of Veitastrond. The chapel is part of the Hafslo parish in the Indre Sogn deanery in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white, wooden chapel has 120 seats and was built as a bedehus in 1928. On 14 July 1935, it was consecrate to be used for church functions and received the designation of chapel. Before that time, the villagers had to make the 30-kilometre (19 mi) long trek from their isolated village to Hafslo Church, which was a long and sometimes dangerous journey.
Agriculture is the science and art of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities. The history of agriculture began thousands of years ago. After gathering wild grains beginning at least 105,000 years ago, nascent farmers began to plant them around 11,500 years ago. Pigs, sheep and cattle were domesticated over 10,000 years ago. Plants were independently cultivated in at least 11 regions of the world. Industrial agriculture based on large-scale monoculture in the twentieth century came to dominate agricultural output, though about 2 billion people still depended on subsistence agriculture into the twenty-first.
Historically, Veitastrond was part of the municipality of Hafslo from 1838 until 1 January 1963 when Hafslo municipality merged into Luster municipality. [2]
Hafslo is a former municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is located in the present-day municipality of Luster in the traditional district of Sogn. The former municipality included the villages of Kinsedalen, Ornes, and Kroken on the east side of the Lustrafjorden. It also included the villages of Solvorn, Hafslo, Joranger, and the whole Veitastrond valley on the west side of the Lustrafjorden. The municipality surrounded the lakes Hafslovatnet and Veitastrondvatnet. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Hafslo, where Hafslo Church was located.
The former Sogndal-player Kurt Heggestad hails from Veitastrond. [3]
Sogndal Fotball is the association football department of Norwegian sports club Sogndal IL from Sogndal in Sogn og Fjordane. The club was founded in 1926.
Kurt Heggestad is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played as a left winger or left-back. He represented Norway at the under-16 and under-17 level, and played 53 matches for Sogndal in Tippeligaen. Heggestad played for Sogndal for ten consecutive seasons, before he retired at the age of 26 to become a goat farmer.
