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Hedalen
Hedalen is a valley in Sør-Aurdal Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The long valley is a side valley which branches off the main Begnadalen. The river Urula flows through the valley. The central part of the valley is located about to the northwest of Nes, Ådal, Nes i Ådal, about so the southeast of Bagn, and about to the east of Nesbyen (town), Nesbyen. The valley is characterized by coniferous forests, agriculture, agricultural properties, and scattered private homes, extends west and north, northwards from Nes, Ådal, Nes i Ådal at the south end of the Begnadalen valley as it heads towards the Vassfaret valley. The lake Sperillen in Ringerike Municipality is located at the south end of the Hedalen valley. The Vassfaret conservation area includes part of the Hedalen valley and areas to the west. The County Road 243 is the main road through Hedalen, and a small toll road from there heads west into Vassfaret. The valley includes many homes and built up areas along ...
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Hedalen Stave Church
Hedalen Stave Church ( no, Hedalen stavkyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Sør-Aurdal Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The stave church is located in the Hedalen valley. It is the church for the Hedalen parish which is part of the Valdres prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Hamar. The brown, wooden stave church was built in a Churches in Norway#Floor plan, cruciform design around the year 1160 using plans drawn up by an unknown architect. The church seats about 210 people. History The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1327, but the church was not built that year. The church was originally built during the second half of the 12th century, possibly around the year 1160. Modern dendrochronological studies have shown that the timbers of the church were originally cut around the year 1160. The church was originally a wooden long church with a single nave. The west entrance remains from the original church. The front por ...
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Hedalen Stavkyrkje
Hedalen is a valley in Sør-Aurdal Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The long valley is a side valley which branches off the main Begnadalen. The river Urula flows through the valley. The central part of the valley is located about to the northwest of Nes i Ådal, about so the southeast of Bagn, and about to the east of Nesbyen. The valley is characterized by coniferous forests, agricultural properties, and scattered private homes, extends west and northwards from Nes i Ådal at the south end of the Begnadalen valley as it heads towards the Vassfaret valley. The lake Sperillen in Ringerike Municipality is located at the south end of the Hedalen valley. The Vassfaret conservation area includes part of the Hedalen valley and areas to the west. The County Road 243 is the main road through Hedalen, and a small toll road from there heads west into Vassfaret. The valley includes many homes and built up areas along the main road including the Hedalen primary and lower s ...
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Sør-Aurdal Municipality
Sør-Aurdal is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Valdres. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Bagn. Other villages in the municipality include Begna, Hedalen, and Begnadalen. The municipality is the 101st largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Sør-Aurdal is the 231st most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,889. The municipality's population density is and its population has decreased by 8.4% over the previous 10-year period. General information The parish of ''Søndre Aurdal'' was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). On 1 January 1894, the new Etnedal Municipality was established by merging the eastern valley area of ''Nordre Etnedal'' (population: 362) from the neighboring Nordre Aurdal municipality and the ''Søndre Etnedal'' area (population: 1,331) from the neighboring municipality of Søndre Aurda ...
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Bautahaugen Samlinger
Bautahaugen Samlinger (Bautahaugen collections) is a small museum in Hedalen, Sør-Aurdal municipality, Norway. The museum is a subsidiary of Valdres Folkemuseum. History Bautahaugen was founded in 1902, by local trader Erik J. Bergsrud (1848–1915) and farmer Elling Goplerud (1864–1932). Bautahaugen Samlinger is located in the central part of Hedalen, in a small forest overlooking the valley and with the mountains framing the landscape. Today there are 15 buildings and 2,500 individual objects in the museum. Bautahaugen consists of a collection of old buildings and objects from Hedalen, one of the oldest villages in Valdres. All of the buildings at the museum are from small local farms and include houses used for hunting and fishing in the nearby mountains and the valleys of Vassfaret and Vidalen. Hedal stave church is situated a bit further up in Hedalen. File:Bautahaugen Samlinger, Brakastugua.jpg, Main house, ''Brakastuggua'' 1750 File:Bautahaugen Samlinger, Låve.jpg, B ...
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Begnadalen
Begnadalen or Begndalen is a valley in Norway. The valley runs through Sør-Aurdal Municipality in Innlandet county and Ringerike Municipality in Viken county. The long valley follows the river Begna from Bagn to the lake Sperillen. The European route E16 passes through the valley. In the central part of the valley, the Church of Norway has a church which is called the Begnadalen Church. The main Begnadalen valley has several smaller side valleys that branch off of it. The Hedalen valley extends to the south and west of the main valley. The Vidalen extends to the south of the Hedalen valley and the Vassfaret Vassfaret is a forested mountain valley in southern Norway. The valley is located on the border of the municipalities of Flå, Nesbyen, and Ringerike in Viken county and Sør-Aurdal Municipality in Innlandet county. The valley lies between the ... valley extends to the west of the Hedalen valley. References External linksBegnadalen.no Valleys of Innlandet Vall ...
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Sperillen
Sperillen is a lake in the valley of Ådal in Ringerike municipality, Viken county, Norway.Sperillen
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The lake has an area of 37 km² and extending about 26 km in length. It is 108 meters deep at its deepest and lies at 150 meters above sea level. Two rivers from , Begna from the valley of and Urula from the valley of Hedalen, flow into the lake at the northern end on either side of the town of N ...
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Stave Church
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 (''stav'' in modern Norwegian). Two related church building types also named for their structural elements, the post church and palisade church, are often called 'stave churches'. Originally much more widespread, most of the surviving stave churches are in Norway. The only remaining medieval stave churches outside Norway are those of ''circa'' 1500 Hedared stave church in Sweden and one Norwegian stave church relocated in 1842 to contemporary Karpacz in the Karkonosze mountains of Poland (at the time being a part of the Kingdom of Prussia). One other church, the Anglo-Saxon Greensted Church in England, exhibits many similarities with a stave church but is generally considered a palisade church. Construct ...
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Nes, Ådal
Nes i Ådal is a small village in the valley of Ådal in the municipality Ringerike (municipality), Ringerike in Buskerud, Norway. The village lies on both sides of the river Begna (river), Begna, just north of the river's outlet in Lake Sperillen. It is situated on European route E16 north of Hønefoss, towards Valdres and Western Norway, Vestlandet. The road to Hedal stave church, Hedalen splits off from the E16 at Nes. Nes is a common Norwegian place name. In Old Norse, the word Nes means headland or promontory. In the case of Nes i Ådal, the name derives from the old farm Nes, which in medieval times was under the Ancient Diocese of Hamar, Diocese of Hamar. TGC Harnessing, a division of T&G Elektro, is the main employer in Nes. It was established 25 years ago. TGC Harnessing is known for supplying specialized cable systems of very high quality. The company is active in both design and production of harnesses and cable systems. Nes Church (''Nes Kirke'') was built to p ...
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Vassfaret
Vassfaret is a forested mountain valley in southern Norway. The valley is located on the border of the municipalities of Flå, Nesbyen, and Ringerike in Viken county and Sør-Aurdal Municipality in Innlandet county. The valley lies between the Hallingdal and Hedalen valleys in the traditional district of Valdres. The steep forest and mountain slopes on both sides of the valley have peaks reaching up to above sea level at Sørbølfjellet in Flå municipality in the furthest southwest part of Vassfaret. The area was one heavily inhabited by bears. Protected area The valley includes several nature conservation areas: * Vassfaret and Vidalen conservation area (''Vassfaret/Vidalen landskapsvernområde'') covering * Inner Vassfaret conservation area (''Indre Vassfaret landskapsvernområde''), covering * There are also 9 small nature reserves, a total of with very strict protection rules. History Vassfaret is characterized by low alpine coniferous forests, heather, and bogs. D ...
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Hallingdal
Hallingdal ( en, Halling Valley) is a valley as well as a traditional district located in the traditional and electoral district Buskerud in Viken county in Norway. It consists of six municipalities: Flå, Nes, Gol, Hemsedal, Ål and Hol. Hallingdal is one of the major valleys of eastern Norway, on an area of 5,830 square kilometers. Hallingdal lies in the northern part of the county of Buskerud. The valley stretches from Gulsvik by Lake Krøderen to the border with Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane. Central to the geography is relatively flat mountain area which lies above sea level. The valley is V-shaped and is drained by the Hallingdal River which originates in the western parts of Hardangervidda and flows eastwards later southwards through Hallingdal. Etymology The Old Norse form of the name was ''Haddingjadalr''. The first recorded case beginning with ''Hall-'' is from 1443. The first element seems to be the genitive case of the name of the people ''Haddingjar'' or of th ...
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Logging
Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport. It may include skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or logs onto trucks or skeleton cars. Logging is the beginning of a supply chain that provides raw material for many products societies worldwide use for housing, construction, energy, and consumer paper products. Logging systems are also used to manage forests, reduce the risk of wildfires, and restore ecosystem functions, though their efficiency for these purposes has been challenged. In forestry, the term logging is sometimes used narrowly to describe the logistics of moving wood from the stump to somewhere outside the forest, usually a sawmill or a lumber yard. In common usage, however, the term may cover a range of forestry or silviculture activities. Illegal logging refers to the harvesting, transportation, purchase, or sale of timber in violation of laws. The harvesting procedure itself may be illegal, includin ...
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Sokna
Sokna is a small village located between Hønefoss and Krøderen in the municipality of Ringerike, in the county of Buskerud, Norway. Its population is 543. Location Sokna is located in the valley of Soknedalen, between the Sogna and Verkenselva rivers. Sogna is a small river that starts at the end of Lake Sognevannet in Strømsoddbygda at the top of the valley of Sokndalen and empties into Tyrifjorden. The Verkenselva flows into the Sogna just southeast of Sokna. Norwegian National Road 7 (''RV 7'') runs through the village, as does the Bergen Line which extends between Hønefoss and Hallingdal, although rail trains no longer stop at Sokna. Sokna is situated close to large open forested areas including Holleia, Brekkebygda and Strømsoddbygda as well as the Ådalsfjella mountain range. It is also not far to Hønefoss (around 23 km) and Norefjell (around 32 km). Etymology The name of Sokna originated with the Old Norse word ''Sókn'' meaning parish. Lun ...
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