Slemmestad is a village in

Røyken Røyken is a district and village (''bygd'') and a former municipality in Buskerud in Viken County, Norway. In 2020 Røyken was merged with the municipalities of Hurum and Asker to form the new Asker Municipality (informally called "Greater As ...

Asker Asker (), also called Asker proper (''Askerbygda'' or ''gamle Asker'' in Norwegian), is a district and former Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Akershus, Norway, located approximately 20km southwest of Oslo. From 2020 it is part of the ...

municipality in

Akershus Akershus () is a county in Norway, with Oslo as its administrative centre, though Oslo is not located within Akershus. Akershus has been a region in Eastern Norway with Oslo as its main city since the Middle Ages, and is named after the Akers ...

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. Slemmestad is located on the west bank of the

Oslofjord The Oslofjord (, ; ) is an inlet in southeastern Norway. The fjord begins at the small village of Bonn in Frogn, Frogn Municipality and stretching northwards to the city of Oslo, and then curving to the east and then south again. It then flows s ...

, west of

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History

Historically Slemmestad was located on the old highway running between Oslo and

Drammen Drammen () is a city and municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. The port and river city of Drammen is centrally located in the south-eastern and most populated part of Norway. Drammen municipality also includes smaller towns and villages such ...

. Until the establishment of cement factory in 1892, this was a pure farming village. The largest farms were the Lillelien, together with ''øvre'' and ''nedre Slemmestad''. Slemmestad was built around the ''Aktieselskabet Christiania Portland Cementfabrik'' cement plant.

Geography

Slemmestad forms part of the Oslo Geological Region (''Oslofeltet''). This is an ancient, sunken part of the crust reaching in the south at

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and extending north to

Brumunddal Brumunddal is a List of towns and cities in Norway, town in Ringsaker Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The town is the administrative centre of the municipality. It is located on the shores of the lake Mjøsa, about north of the town of ...

in the

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municipality of

Hedmark Hedmark () was a Counties of Norway, county in Norway from 1 January 1919 to 31 December 2019, bordering Trøndelag to the north, Oppland to the west, Akershus to the south, and Sweden to the east. The county administration is in Hamar. Hedmar ...

County. By subsidence, the Oslo field had preserved a comprehensive sequence of

shale Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of Clay mineral, clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g., Kaolinite, kaolin, aluminium, Al2Silicon, Si2Oxygen, O5(hydroxide, OH)4) and tiny f ...

limestone Limestone is a type of carbonate rock, carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material Lime (material), lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different Polymorphism (materials science) ...

siltstone Siltstone, also known as aleurolite, is a clastic sedimentary rock that is composed mostly of silt. It is a form of mudrock with a low clay mineral content, which can be distinguished from shale by its lack of fissility. Although its permeabil ...

and

sandstone Sandstone is a Clastic rock#Sedimentary clastic rocks, clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of grain size, sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate mineral, silicate grains, Cementation (geology), cemented together by another mineral. Sand ...

of the

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Slemmestad Cement Museum

Slemmestad Cement Museum (''Slemmestad Cementmuseum'') is located in the cement factory's former bag factory in Slemmestad. The museum was opened in 1991. It features photographs, artifacts, records and other documentation that shows 100 years of development of cement production and the great importance of the factory was Slemmestad and the people who lived there.

Media

The newspaper '' Røyken og Hurums Avis'' was published in Slemmestad from 1976 to 2003.

Slemmestad Church

Slemmestad Church (''Slemmestad kirke'') is a wooden structure and has 200 seats. It was dedicated on 25 August 1935. The architect for the church was Ivar Næss (1878–1936). The building was expanded eastward in 1960 with vestry and secondary rooms, and this extension was extended eastwards in 1978. Slemmestad chapel and cemetery are in the southern part of the village, around half kilometer from Slemmestad Church. The cemetery was inaugurated in autumn 1923.

Notable residents

Melissa Wiik Lindy Melissa Løvbræk Wiik (born 7 February 1985) is a Norwegian footballer who plays for Urædd FK and the Norway national team. Career Asker played in the elite Toppserien league in Norway, and Wiik was the league's top scorer of the 2007 ...

, Footballer who plays for Urædd FK * Bjørge Lillelien, Sports journalist

References

Other sources

*Gartmann, Frithjof (1990) ''Sement i Norge 100 år'' (Oslo) *Søbye, Øystein (1997) ''Bak syv blåner'' (Oslo: Orion forlag) Villages in Asker Røyken {{Akershus-geo-stub