Evanger is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

in the municipality of

Voss Voss () is a municipality and a traditional district in Vestland county, Norway. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Vossevangen. Other villages include Bolstadøyri, Borstrondi, Evanger, Kvitheim, Mjølfjell, Opphe ...

Vestland Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020. The county is located in Western Norway and it is centred around the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city. The administrative centre of the county is the city of Bergen, where t ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. The village lies in western Voss at the eastern end of the lake

Evangervatnet Evangervatnet or Lake Evanger is a lake in Voss Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The Vosso River flows through both Vangsvatnet and Evangervatnet before it empties into Bolstadfjorden by the village of Bolstadøyri. Evangervatnet is na ...

where the river

Vosso Vosso is a river in Voss municipality in Hordaland, Norway. The river starts at Tvildemoen, Vossevangen, where the two rivers Strandaelvi and Raundalselvi meet. The river continues through the Vangsvatnet and Evangervatnet before ending in the Bol ...

empties into the lake. Evanger sits about west of the municipal centre of

Vossevangen Vossevangen or Voss is the administrative centre of Voss municipality in Vestland county, Norway. Location The village lies on the northeastern shore of the lake Vangsvatnet in the central part of the municipality, about east of the city of Berg ...

History

Evanger was the

administrative centre An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located. In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...

of the old municipality of

Evanger Evanger is a former municipality in the Voss district of the old Hordaland county in Norway. The municipality existed from 1885 until 1964 when it was dissolved and its lands split between two municipalities. The municipality included the eas ...

, which existed from 1885 until 1964.

Evanger Church Evanger Church ( no, Evanger kyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Voss Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Evanger. It is the church for the ''Evanger og Bolstad'' parish which is part of the ...

(''Evanger kyrkje'') is located in the village. The

European route E16 European route E16 is the designation of a main west-east road through Northern Ireland, Scotland, Norway and Sweden, from Derry to Gävle, via Belfast, Glasgow, Edinburgh, previously by ferry to Bergen, Voss, through the Gudvanga Tunnel and th ...

highway runs through the village, on its way from the city of

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 ...

to the village of

. The

Bergensbanen The Bergen Line or the Bergen Railway ( no, Bergensbanen or nn, Bergensbana), is a 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, wh ...

railway line Rail terminology is a form of technical terminology. The difference between the American term ''railroad'' and the international term ''railway'' (used by the International Union of Railways and English-speaking countries outside the United Sta ...

stops at

Evanger Station Evanger Station ( no, Evanger stasjon) is a railway station located on the Bergensbanen railway line in the village of Evanger in Voss municipality, Vestland county, Norway. The station is served by twelve daily departures per direction by the Ber ...

as the railroad goes through the village from the west coast of Norway to the eastern coast. Evanger has a sausage factory and some other small industries in the village. The

Evanger Hydroelectric Power Station The Evanger Power Station is a hydroelectric power station located in the municipality Voss in Vestland, Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprise ...

() is built in the mountains just northwest of the village of Evanger, in the mountains. The power plant started production in 1969 and was modified in 1977. The power plant is supplied with water through a long tunnel from the intake reservoir, the lake Askjelldalsvatnet to the north. The tunnel has a vertical drop of . The power plant receives water from the

Eksingedalen Eksingedalen or Eksingadalen is a valley that makes up the northeastern part of Vaksdal Municipality in Vestland County, Norway. The Eksingedalen valley stretches over from the Vikafjell mountains all the way to the Inner Osterfjorden. The Eks ...

and Teigdalen valleys. The power station is equipped with three

Pelton turbine The Pelton wheel or Pelton Turbine is an impulse-type water turbine invented by American inventor Lester Allan Pelton in the 1870s. The Pelton wheel extracts energy from the impulse of moving water, as opposed to water's dead weight like the trad ...

s and is owned and operated by BKK.

Media gallery

File:Traditional Norwegian houses at Evanger.jpg, View of houses in Evanger File:Cafe in Evanger.jpg, Cafe in Evanger File:Voss Evanger kirke RK 84104IMG 5632.jpg, View of

File:Evangervatnet2.JPG, View of the surrounding area, just west of the village

References

Villages in Vestland Voss {{Vestland-geo-stub