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Rådal
Rådal is a neighborhood in the city of Bergen in Vestland county, Norway. It is located at the border between the boroughs of Fana and Ytrebygda. The center of the area is the shopping center Lagunen Storsenter. While the area has no official borders, it is regarded as the common name for the basic statistical unit (Norway), basic statistical units of Krohnåsen in Fana and Skeie, Siljustøl, and Holten in Ytrebygda. These had 5,967 residents in 2009 and covered . The post address for Rådal also includes the areas Grimstad, Steinsvik, Nordås, Skjold, Bergen, Skjold, and Smørås. The area features the commercial area Laguneparken, Nordahl Grieg Upper Secondary School, Rå School, Fana Stadion, Fana Golf Club, Siljustøl Museum, and the former Rådal Station on the Nesttun–Os Railway. BIR (company), BIR has a garbage dump at Rådal. The second stage of the Bergen Light Rail will extend the system to Rådal, probably in 2012. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Radal Neighbourhoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rådal Station
Rådal is a neighborhood in the city of Bergen in Vestland county, Norway. It is located at the border between the boroughs of Fana and Ytrebygda. The center of the area is the shopping center Lagunen Storsenter. While the area has no official borders, it is regarded as the common name for the basic statistical unit (Norway), basic statistical units of Krohnåsen in Fana and Skeie, Siljustøl, and Holten in Ytrebygda. These had 5,967 residents in 2009 and covered . The post address for Rådal also includes the areas Grimstad, Steinsvik, Nordås, Skjold, Bergen, Skjold, and Smørås. The area features the commercial area Laguneparken, Nordahl Grieg Upper Secondary School, Rå School, Fana Stadion, Fana Golf Club, Siljustøl Museum, and the former Rådal Station on the Nesttun–Os Railway. BIR (company), BIR has a garbage dump at Rådal. The second stage of the Bergen Light Rail will extend the system to Rådal, probably in 2012. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Radal Neighbourhoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bergen Light Rail
Bergen Light Rail ( no, Bybanen) is a light rail system in Bergen, Norway. The first stage of the project was a twenty-station stretch between the city center and Lagunen Storsenter, where the first 15 stations comprising a stretch opened in 2010, and the second was a stretch from Nesttun to Lagunen which opened in June 2013. A third stretch from Lagunen to Bergen Airport, Flesland opened in 2017. The second line between Kaigaten and Fyllingsdalen opened on 21 November 2022. Further plans for the project involve mooted extensions to Åsane and Storavatnet. Plans for rail transit have existed since the 1970s, following the 1965 closing of the Bergen Tramway. A rapid transit design was first discarded, and in the 1990s a light rail line was proposed. The decision to start construction was made in 2005. The first stage was built by the municipality, with financing from the state and the toll road ring, based on the Bergen Program. Ownership, maintenance and further extensions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fana Stadion
Fana stadion is a multi-use stadium at Rådal in the borough of Fana in Bergen, Norway. Used for football matches, it is the home ground of Second Division team Fana IL. It also has a rubber track for track and field meets, and the stadium most notably hosted the 2004 Bergen Bislett Games. Then, a new world record in the women's 5000 metres was set by Elvan Abeylegesse. The stadium is also home to a world junior record, namely 83.87 metres by Andreas Thorkildsen Andreas Thorkildsen (born 1 April 1982) is a retired Norwegian track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. He was the Olympic Champion in 2004 and 2008, European Champion in 2006 and 2010, and World Champion in 2009. He is the fir ... in the men's javelin throw (June 2001). The venue hosted the Norwegian Athletics Championships in 1969, 1975, 1991 and 2005. References Football venues in Norway Athletics (track and field) venues in Norway Sports venues in Bergen 1969 establishments in Norway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bergen
Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of Bergenshalvøyen. The city centre and northern neighbourhoods are on Byfjorden, 'the city fjord', and the city is surrounded by mountains; Bergen is known as the "city of seven mountains". Many of the extra-municipal suburbs are on islands. Bergen is the administrative centre of Vestland county. The city consists of eight boroughs: Arna, Bergenhus, Fana, Fyllingsdalen, Laksevåg, Ytrebygda, Årstad, and Åsane. Trading in Bergen may have started as early as the 1020s. According to tradition, the city was founded in 1070 by King Olav Kyrre and was named Bjørgvin, 'the green meadow among the mountains'. It served as Norway's capital in the 13th century, and from the end of the 13th century became a bureau city of the Hanseatic Leag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BIR (company)
BIR or Bir may refer to: Acronyms (BIR) * Bangladesh Infantry Regiment, an infantry regiment of the Bangladesh Army * Rapid Intervention Battalion, Cameroon (french: Bataillon d'Intervention Rapide, links=no), Cameroon's armed forces elite unit * , the identity card issued to residents of the Chinese SAR of Macau * Brainerd International Raceway, a road course, drag strip and kart track in Brainerd, Minnesota, USA * British Institute of Radiology, professional society for medical imaging * Birmingham International Raceway, a oval paved racetrack located at the Alabama State Fairgrounds * Board of Invention and Research, a military research group of the British Royal Navy Admiralty during World War I * Burma's IOC country code * Bureau of Internal Revenue (Philippines), an attached agency of the Department of Finance in the Philippines * Baculovirus Inhibitor of apoptosis protein Repeat, a domain commonly found in Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins (IAPs) * Built-in 'robe, a Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nordahl Grieg Upper Secondary School
Nordahl is a Nordic name, thought to be of Swedish or Norwegian origin. Notable people with the name: Given name * Nordahl Lelandais (born 1983), French ex-military involved in criminal cases * Nordahl Brue, American lawyer and entrepreneur * Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet, novelist, dramatist, and journalist * Nordahl Rolfsen, Norwegian writer, educationalist and teacher * Nordahl Wallem, Norwegian sailor who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics Surname * Blane David Nordahl, American burglar * Danny Nordahl, American bass guitarist * Johan Nordahl Brun (1745-1816) Norwegian poet, dramatist, bishop in Bergen * Thomas Nordahl, (born 1946) Swedish footballer, member of the national team for the 1970 FIFA World Cup, son of Gunnar Nordahl brothers * Bertil Nordahl, (born 1917, dead 1998) Swedish footballer, Olympic gold medalist in 1948 *Knut Nordahl, (born 1920, dead 1984) Swedish footballer, Olympic gold medalist in 1948 *Gunnar Nordahl Nils Gunnar Nordahl (; 19 October 1921 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skjold, Bergen
Skjold is a neighbourhood in the city of Bergen in Vestland county, Norway. Located in Fana borough, it is a mostly residential area dominated by single-family homes and apartment buildings. Skjold is located to the southwest of Nesttun and east of Sørås. The area has an elementary school, ''Skjold skole'', and a private Steiner-Waldorf elementary/ lower secondary school, ''Steinerskolen på Skjold''. Skjold Church is located in the neighborhood. The basic statistical units of Skjold and Skjoldhøgda had a combined population of 4967 as of 1 January 2009. Transport The main thoroughfare in Skjold is Norwegian County Road 582 (Fanavegen). The 4-lane road Norwegian National Road 580 (Fritz C. Riebers veg) runs to the west of Skjold, and intersects Fv 582 just north of Lagunen Storsenter. The second stage of the Bergen Light Rail Bergen Light Rail ( no, Bybanen) is a light rail system in Bergen, Norway. The first stage of the project was a twenty-station stretch betwee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basic Statistical Unit (Norway)
The basic statistical unit ( no, Grunnkrets) is a type of statistical unit used by Statistics Norway to provide stable and coherent geographical units for regional statistics in Norway. Basic statistical units are subdivisions of municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ... (they never include land in more than one municipality), and cover generally homogeneous areas. Most basic statistical units include a few hundred inhabitants, but as their borders are near constant, this can vary widely over time. References * Demographics of Norway Subdivisions of Norway {{Statistics-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lagunen Storsenter
Lagunen Storsenter is a shopping center located in the borough Fana in Bergen, Norway. It is one of the largest shopping centres in Norway and in 2002, it was the fifth largest shopping facility in Scandinavia Scandinavia; Sámi languages: /. ( ) is a subregion in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples. In English usage, ''Scandinavia'' most commonly refers to Denmark, Norway, and Swe ..., with a turnover of 2,540 billion Norwegian kroner. It has more than 150 stores in of building space. The shopping centre was designed by architect Jan Olav Reither (1929–2003) and opened in 1985. Lagunen Storsenter is owned by Nordås Industrier AS and managed by the Olav Thon Group. See also * Bergen Storsenter References External linksOfficial website Buildings and structures in Bergen Shopping centres in Norway 1985 establishments in Norway Tourist attractions in Bergen Shopping malls established in 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
