Jondalen is a

valley A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams ove ...

Kongsberg Kongsberg () is a historical mining town and municipality in Buskerud, Viken county, Norway. The city is located on the river Numedalslågen at the entrance to the valley of Numedal. Kongsberg has been a centre of silver mining, arms production ...

municipality,

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, outside the city of Kongsberg. Its history is closely tied to Kongsberg and the

Kongsberg Silver Mines Kongsberg Silver works () was a mining operation at Kongsberg in Viken county in Norway. The town of Kongsberg is the site of the Norwegian Mining Museum (). History Operating from over 80 different sites, Kongsberg silver mines constituted th ...

. The river Jondalselva runs through the valley. Jondalen Church was built in 1882. Jondalen became an independent

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in 1861, and was incorporated into the new, larger Kongsberg municipality in 1964.

Literature

*''Norske Gardsbruk'', 2 vols. *Tho, Hallvard: ''Stedsnavnene i Jondalen''. Oslo 1949. {{coord, 59.7031, N, 9.5236, E, source:wikidata, display=title Kongsberg