Nesttun is an urban settlement in the borough of

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in the municipality of

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county,

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. It is located approximately south of the city centre. It was the centre of the old

municipality, which merged with Bergen in 1972, and is today the administration centre of

borough. Nesttun contains a mall, several smaller shops, a library, and Birkeland Church.

Climate

A problem facing Nesttun is

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after heavy rain. In 2005, heavy rain caused the river that flows through the town to break its banks. A 2014 article in Fanaposten said that the municipality has taken too few measures to avoid flooding of the magnitude of the 2005 flooding.

Transport

Until the opening of the

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in 1964, Nesttun was a station on 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, and a station on the Nesttun-Osbanen railway until its closure in 1935. After lengthy construction work, the two double-lane roads which went through the centre of Nesttun were converted into a pedestrian mall and a single-lane road. Nesttun is a major traffic junction of the Bergen area, and this status will be strengthened in 2010, when the first phase of the Bergen Light Rail system is completed. Buses to the city centre of Bergen depart Nesttun every five minutes.

Culture

Education

There are several schools in the immediate vicinity of Nesttun. Midtun skole and Slåtthaug ungdomsskole are located directly to the south, the former being an

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and the latter a

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. Ulsmåg skole, an elementary school, is located to the east of Nesttun. The closest upper secondary schools are

Fana gymnas Fana Gymnas is a public high school located in Fana in Bergen, Norway. The school was founded in 1916 as a middle school, and the headmaster was the father of Nordahl Grieg Johan Nordahl Brun Grieg (1 November 1902 – 2 December 1943) was a ...

, the

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of Bergen, and Slåtthaug videregående skole, as well as Bjørkåsen videregående skole, a

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for

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students.

References

Villages in Vestland Neighbourhoods of Bergen {{Bergen-stub