Borre, Norway
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Borre is a village in the municipality of
Horten is a town and municipality in Vestfold in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway—located along the Oslofjord. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Horten. The municipality also includes the town of Åsgårdstrand an ...
,
Vestfold Vestfold is a traditional region, a former county and a current electoral district in Eastern Norway. In 2020 the county became part of the much larger county of Vestfold og Telemark. Located on the western shore of the Oslofjord, it bordered th ...
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 of Borre had provided the name of the former Borre municipality.


The name

The
Old Norse Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and t ...
form of the name was ''Borró''. The meaning of the name is unknown.


History

The municipality was created as Borre
formannskapsdistrikt () is the name for Norwegian local self-government districts that were legally enacted on 1 January 1838. This system of municipalities was created in a bill approved by the Parliament of Norway and signed into law by King Carl Johan on 14 January ...
in 1837 and bore the municipality number 0717. On 1 January 1858, the city of
Horten is a town and municipality in Vestfold in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway—located along the Oslofjord. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Horten. The municipality also includes the town of Åsgårdstrand an ...
was separated from Borre to constitute a separate administrative unit, leaving Borre with a population of 2,954. Horten got the municipality number 0703, the third digit of zero indicating its city status. Starting in 1921, a series of border adjustments which moved territory from Borre to Horten took place. The parts moved to Horten in 1921, 1951 and 1986 had 287, 308 and 22 inhabitants respectively. On 1 January 1965, the urban municipality
Åsgårdstrand Åsgårdstrand is a small port town in Horten municipality, Vestfold, Norway. It is also the name of a former independent municipality and a center of trade. The town is situated 10 km south of Horten, 10 km north of Tønsberg and 100&n ...
was incorporated into Borre, losing its city status and number 0704. The enlarged Borre municipality retained the number 0717, and had 6,651 inhabitants as a result of the merger. On 1 January 1988, Horten and Borre, with 9,098 and 12,994 inhabitants respectively, merged to form a new municipality. The name of the new municipality was Borre, but it was given the number 0701, indicating continued city status. The village of Borre has a population of 681. On 1 June 2002, the name of the municipality was changed to Horten, following a referendum held in conjunction with the 2001 parliamentary election. The referendum was a close call with 6,557 votes for the name Horten and 6,218 votes for Borre. Horten municipality still carries the municipality number 0701.


Borre Church

Borre Church (''Borre Kirke'') is a medieval era church dating from the first half of the 1100s. Inside the church previously hung a three-meter high wooden cross from the 1300s. The church is built in Romanesque style with a rectangular nave and a narrower chancel. Borre church was built of natural stone, laid in thick walls. The nave and chancel have a gable roof with a turret. The pulpit is from about 1600. The church has a Baroque altarpiece carved of wood by
Abel Schrøder Abel Schrøder, also Abel Schrøder the Younger, (c. 1602–1676) was a Danish woodcarver with a workshop in Næstved, then the centre for woodcarving in Southern Zealand. He is remembered for his many auricular altarpieces and pulpits depictin ...
in 1665. The side panels show scenes from the life of Jesus, the Annunciation, Nativity, Jesus' baptism and prayer in Gethsemane. The pulpit is Renaissance, with pictorial representations of the virtues. The church has two bells which are both were recast. Between 1926 and 1928, the church underwent extensive restoration work under the direction of architect
Lorentz Harboe Ree Lorentz Harboe Ree (12 March 1888– 8 March 1962) was a Norwegian architect. Ree was born at Stange in Hedmark, Norway. He graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1915. He first worked as an architectural assistant in Bergen (19 ...
. At that time, the entrance was also re-built. The church has seating for approximately 300 people.


Borrevannet

Borrevannet is a large fresh water lake called which measures long and wide (at its widest). At the south end is a designated bird sanctuary where you can see numerous water birds, waders, and many other bird types. The lake houses many varieties of fish including pike, perch and eel. The association that manages the lake, Borrevannets Grundeierforegning, uses the fishing card sales to promote water quality improvement initiatives and fishing research projects. It is also possible to rent one of the privately owned cabins, for example, Asketun hytte. On the east side of the lake the pumping station can be visited, although this is currently being rebuilt. The new building will house a new activity center, also run by the council who offer a large number of educational programs, primarily but not exclusively designed for schools.


Other Attractions


Borre National Park
covers 45 acres (182,000 m2). Its collection of burial mounds include a large collection of royal tombs. *
Borre mound cemetery Borre mound cemetery (Norwegian: ''Borrehaugene'' from the ''Old Norse'' words ''borró'' and ''haugr'' meaning mound) forms part of the Borre National Park at Horten in Vestfold og Telemark, Norway. It is home to seven large and 21 smaller bu ...
(''Borrehaugene'') from the Old Norse words ''borró'' and ''haugr'' meaning mound. The Borre style of
Norse art Viking art, also known commonly as Norse art, is a term widely accepted for the art of Scandinavian Norsemen and Viking settlements further afield—particularly in the British Isles and Iceland—during the Viking Age of the 8th-11th centuries ...
is named after a boat grave from Borre.''Borre style'' (Trustees of the British Museum)
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References


Other sources

*Lillevold, Eyvind ''Borre bygdebok'' (Borre, 1954) {{Authority control Villages in Vestfold og Telemark Former municipalities of Norway