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Joen Jacobsen
Joen Jacobsen (1714 – 12 January 1768) was a Norwegian master builder. He was born in Skien to carpenter Jacob Vetlesen. He was responsible for the construction of a number of churches in Telemark, including Langesund Church (from 1753 onwards), Vestre Porsgrunn Church (1756–1758), Østre Porsgrunn Church ( finished 1760) and Solum Church (finished 1766). He also restored Borgestad Manor in 1760, and built ''KammerherregÃ¥rden'', which was destroyed by fire in 1901 and rebuilt as the current Porsgrunn City Hall Porsgrunn City Hall is the seat of government for Porsgrunn city and municipality in Telemark, Norway. The current city hall was constructed in 1905 after the original building was destroyed in a fire. The building is situated at the intersection .... References 1714 births 1768 deaths People from Skien {{Norway-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porsgrunn City Hall
Porsgrunn City Hall is the seat of government for Porsgrunn city and municipality in Telemark, Norway. The current city hall was constructed in 1905 after the original building was destroyed in a fire. The building is situated at the intersection of Storgata and Rådhusgata in eastern Porsgrunn. History Original building The first city hall in Porsgrunn was originally part of a farm called the Chamberlain Estate ( no, Kammerherregården). The farmhouse was built for Niels Aall between 1763 and 1765 by the master builder Joen Jacobsen, who was famous for building Grenland churches such as Østre Porsgrunn Church. Jacobsen built the farmhouse using the pattern of Herregården, a count's manor house in Larvik, after which he had also modeled the house at Borgestad Farm in Skien a few years earlier. The mansion was an example of classic Telemark architecture, with its distinctive H-shaped floor plan and steep hip roof in the ''seteritak'' form, characterized by two slopes of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Østre Porsgrunn Church
Østre Porsgrunn Church (full name: ''Jesu Kirke i Østre Porsgrunn'', also called Østsiden Church) was a church in the Rococo style built in 1760 and located in the city of Porsgrunn in Vestfold og Telemark, Norway. In 2011 the building was completely destroyed by a fire. The church was built in the Kirkehaugen district of Eastern Porsgrunn. The church site is located on Kirkebakken 17, just east of Fylkesvei 356. History Planning In the mid-1700s, the wealthy population of Porsgrunn wanted a new church on the east side of the neighborhood. The reason for this was mainly prestige but also politics, as the building of a grand church in Porsgrunn would prove that the neighborhood in Skien was prosperous enough to be a city in its own right. Also, despite the fact that Vestre Porsgrunn Church had just been built, there was no bridge across the Porsgrunn River, so the residents of eastern Porsgrunn had to travel all the way to Eidanger Church in Eidanger to worship. The idea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skien
Skien () is a city and municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county in Norway. In modern times it is regarded as part of the traditional region of Grenland, although historically it belonged to Grenmar/Skiensfjorden, while Grenland referred the Norsjø area and Bø. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Skien. Skien is also the capital of Vestfold og Telemark county. Skien is one of Norway's oldest cities, with an urban history dating back to the Middle Ages, and received privileges as a market town in 1358. From the 15th century, the city was governed by a 12-member council. The modern municipality of Skien was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The rural municipalities of Gjerpen and Solum were merged into the municipality of Skien on 1 January 1964. The conurbation of Porsgrunn/Skien is reckoned by Statistics Norway to be the seventh largest urban area in Norway, straddling an area of three municipalities: Skien municipali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telemark
Telemark is a traditional region, a former county, and a current electoral district in southern Norway. In 2020, Telemark merged with the former county of Vestfold to form the county of Vestfold og Telemark. Telemark borders the traditional regions and former counties of Vestfold, Buskerud, Hordaland, Rogaland and Aust-Agder. The name ''Telemark'' means the " mark of the Thelir", the ancient North Germanic tribe that inhabited what is now known as Upper Telemark in the Migration Period and the Viking Age. In the Middle Ages, the agricultural society of Upper Telemark was considered the most violent region of Norway. Today, half of the buildings from medieval times in Norway are located here. The dialects spoken in Upper Telemark also retain more elements of Old Norse than those spoken elsewhere in the country. Upper Telemark is also known as the birthplace of skiing. The southern part of Telemark, Grenland, is more urban and influenced by trade with the Low Countries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langesund Church
Langesund Church ( no, Langesund kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Bamble Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the town of Langesund. It is the church for the Langesund parish which is part of the Bamble prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark. The white, brick church was built in a rectangular design in 1992 using plans drawn up by the architect Tor Arild Danielsen. The church seats about 340 people. History From 1753 to 1755, a church was built in Langesund. It was consecrated on 22 July 1755 Bishop Niels Dorph. The church went by the name Bethel and it had about 450 seats. This was a timber long church that had a tower with a church porch at the foot of the tower. Later, a sacristy was added. On 27 November 1988, there was a fire and the church burned down during the night (possibly caused by a furnace located behind the altar, near the sacristy. Very little from the old church was able to be saved. After the fire, there wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vestre Porsgrunn Church
Vestre Porsgrunn Church ( no, Vestre Porsgrunn kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Porsgrunn Municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the Porsgrunn (town), town of Porsgrunn. It is one of the churches for the Porsgrunn parish which is part of the Skien prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark. The white, wooden church was built in a long church design in 1758 using plans drawn up by the architects Lauritz de Thurah and Andreas Pfützner. The church seats about 170 people. History Porsgrunn grew up as a ladested for the nearby Skien (town), town of Skien. In 1690, a cemetery was built in Porsgrunn, on the west side of the river. A small wooden building at the cemetery was sometimes used for worship services due to the lack of a church in Porsgrunn. In 1722, a new cemetery chapel was built to replace the previous one. These buildings are sometimes considered the precursors to the current church. The King gave authorization ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solum Church
Solum Church ( no, Solum kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Skien Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the village of Solum, just west of the town of Skien. It is one of the churches for the ''Kilebygda og Solum'' parish which is part of the Skien prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark. The white, wooden church was built in a long church design in 1766 by the builder Joen Jacobsen. The church seats about 205 people. History The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1349, but the church was not built that year. The first church in Solum was a wooden stave church that may have been built in the 13th century. The old church was located about to the north of the present church building. The old church was dedicated to John the Baptist. Not much is known about the old church, but it was said to be pretty dark, with only one window in the building. In 1580, a new timber-framed choir was added onto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borgestad Manor
Borgestad Manor ( no, Borgestad gård) is an estate and manor house in the municipality of Skien in Vestfold og Telemark, Norway. History Borgestad is located in the former parish of Gjerpen near Porsgrunn. It is one of the largest estates in the region. The farm was originally a church estate and was confiscated as a crown estate after the Reformation. The estate was acquired in 1700 by Anna Clausdatter (1659-1713) and her husband Major General Johan Hanssøn Arnold (1638––1709). Anna Clausdatter was the daughter of estate owner Claus Andersen (1624–1681). Johan Arnold had been commander of the regiment at Akershus. The manor house was built in approx. 1702. The Baroque garden was laid out at that same time. Other notable owners have included merchant and shipowner Diderik von Cappelen (1761–1828) and former Prime Minister Gunnar Knudsen (1848–1928). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norsk Biografisk Leksikon
is the largest Norwegian biographical encyclopedia. The first edition (NBL1) was issued between 1921 and 1983, including 19 volumes and 5,100 articles. It was published by Aschehoug with economic support from the state. bought the rights to NBL1 from Aschehoug in 1995, and after a pre-project in 1996–97 the work for a new edition began in 1998. The project had economic support from the Fritt Ord Foundation and the Ministry of Culture, and the second edition (NBL2) was launched in the years 1999–2005, including 10 volumes and around 5,700 articles. In 2006 the work for an electronic edition of NBL2 began, with support from the same institutions. In 2009 an Internet The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a ''internetworking, network of networks'' that consists ... edition, with free access, was released by together with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knut Helle
Knut Helle (19 December 1930 – 27 June 2015) was a Norwegian historian. A professor at the University of Bergen from 1973 to 2000, he specialized in the late medieval history of Norway. He has contributed to several large works. Early life, education and marriage He was born in Larvik as the son of school inspector Hermann Olai Helle (1893–1973) and teacher Berta Marie Malm (1906–1991). He was the older brother of politician Ingvar Lars Helle. The family moved to Hetland when Knut Helle was seventeen years old. He took the examen artium in Stavanger in 1949, and a teacher's education in Kristiansand in 1952. He studied philology in Oslo and Bergen, and graduated with the cand.philol. degree in 1957. His paper ''Omkring Bǫglungasǫgur'', on the Bagler sagas, was printed in 1959. In December 1957 he married Karen Blauuw, who would later become a professor. Helle's marriage to Blauuw was dissolved in 1985. In October 1987 Helle married museum director and professor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Store Norske Leksikon
The ''Great Norwegian Encyclopedia'' ( no, Store Norske Leksikon, abbreviated ''SNL''), is a Norwegian-language online encyclopedia. The online encyclopedia is among the most-read Norwegian published sites, with more than two million unique visitors per month. Paper editions 1978–2007 The ''SNL'' was created in 1978, when the two publishing houses Aschehoug and Gyldendal merged their encyclopedias and created the company Kunnskapsforlaget. Up until 1978 the two publishing houses of Aschehoug and Gyldendal, Norway's two largest, had published ' and ', respectively. The respective first editions were published in 1907–1913 (Aschehoug) and 1933–1934 (Gyldendal). The slump in sales for paper-based encyclopedias around the turn of the 21st century hit Kunnskapsforlaget hard, but a fourth edition of the paper encyclopedia was secured by a grant of ten million Norwegian kroner from the foundation Fritt Ord in 2003. The fourth edition consisted of 16 volumes, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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