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Utøy
Utøy or Utøya is a village area in the municipality of Inderøy in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village sits about half way between the village of Vangshylla (to the southwest) and the village of Sakshaug (to the northeast). The village of Kjerknesvågen lies about to the north and the Trondheimsfjord lies just to the south. The "Utøy area" generally includes the area around the village which is the southern part of the Inderøya peninsula. Economy The predominant employment in for the Utøy area is agriculture, as in the rest of Inderøy, in addition to functioning as a suburb of Steinkjer, Verdal, and Levanger. There is no notable industry, but the area has a Coop Marked grocery store, Utøy School, kindergarten, and amateur theatre. At nearby Vangshylla there is a hotel that specializes in fishing tourism in the fjord, a boat harbor, and also located there is the Skarnsund Bridge that when it opened in 1991 was the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utøy School
Utøy School ( no, Utøy skole) is a primary school serving the Utøy area in the municipality of Inderøy in Trøndelag county, Norway. The school offers first through seventh grades, as well as operating the Utøy Kindergarten for children from zero to six years. The school has 77 pupils (2008–09) and the kindergarten has 22 children. The school and kindergarten have 13.9 man-hours of staffing.Værdal, 2009: 242–243 History The school was founded as Jystad School on 12 October 1901. It had 85 pupils who were transferred from the former school districts of Kvam and Leren, following a decision to merge them by the municipal council in 1899. A lot was bought from the farm Jystad nordre and the former school house at Kvam was moved there. The school had two classrooms, a gym, and storage area, which was later converted to another classroom. The school also included two apartments; one for the principal and one for a teacher. The school had agricultural land sufficient for the te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inderøy
Inderøy is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Straumen. Other villages include Framverran, Gangstadhaugen, Hylla, Kjerknesvågen, Kjerringvik, Røra, Sakshaug, Sandvollan, Småland, Trongsundet, Utøy, Vangshylla, and Venneshamn. The municipality is primarily an agricultural community, but also has some industry. The municipality is the 246th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Inderøy is the 146th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 6,794. The municipality's population density is and its population has increased by 1.7% over the previous 10-year period. General information Inderøy was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). On 1 January 1907, the municipality was divided into three municipalities: Røra (population: 866) in the southeast, Hustad (population: 732) in the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vangshylla
Vangshylla is a village in the municipality of Inderøy in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located at the southwest end of the Inderøya peninsula in the Utøy area, surrounded on two sides by the Trondheimsfjord. The village sits at the southern end of the Skarnsund strait. Until 1991, when the Skarnsund Bridge opened, Vangshylla served as a ferry and fishing port. Since 1964, it was served by the Vangshylla–Kjerringvik Ferry. It has since been converted into a marina and tourist center with rental accommodation for fishing in Skarnsund. History Vangshylla was originally a croft under the farm ''Vang vestre''.Værdal, 2009: 193 The first written records of Vang date from Archbishop Aslak Bolt's estate records from 1430, where Vang was split in three farms. The word "vang" means a plain with grass, while "hylla" refers to a shelf, with Vangshylla being located on a shelf below the other Vang-farms. Vang vestre was first known as Ytra Vang.Værdal, 2009: 191 The first reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Norway has a total area of and had a population of 5,425,270 in January 2022. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden at a length of . It is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast and the Skagerrak strait to the south, on the other side of which are Denmark and the United Kingdom. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. The maritime influence dominates Norway's climate, with mild lowland temperatures on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakshaug
Sakshaug is a village in the municipality of Inderøy in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located on the Inderøya peninsula, about northwest of the municipal center of Straumen and about northeast of the village of Utøy. The village is considered part of the Straumen urban area by Statistics Norway, so no separate population statistics are tracked. The Old Sakshaug Church is located on the eastern edge of the village, and the newer Sakshaug Church Sakshaug Church ( no, Sakshaug kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Inderøy municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the village of Sakshaug, just west of the municipal centre of Straumen. It is the main church ... lies a little farther to the east, closer to Straumen. The Norwegian County Road 755 runs through the village. References Villages in Trøndelag Inderøy {{Trøndelag-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coop Marked
Coop Marked is a chain of 384 local grocery stores throughout Norway managed by Coop Norge and owned by local cooperatives. The chain represents the smallest stores in the Coop range, and is predominantly used in rural In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry typically are descri ... areas too small to support Coop Prix stores. Norwegian brands Supermarkets of Norway Coop Norden {{retail-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kjerknesvågen
Kjerknesvågen is a village in the municipality of Inderøy in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located along the Trondheimsfjord on the northwestern shore of the Inderøya peninsula, about north of the village of Utøy. The village features a general store and a harbour. Located a few kilometers to the east is Lyngstad School that serves as an elementary school. The harbour is known for its annual ''Båttreff'', a marine fair including a regatta. The dominant industry around the village is farming Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled peop .... References Villages in Trøndelag Inderøy {{Trøndelag-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotel
A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a refrigerator and other kitchen facilities, upholstered chairs, a flat screen television, and en-suite bathrooms. Small, lower-priced hotels may offer only the most basic guest services and facilities. Larger, higher-priced hotels may provide additional guest facilities such as a swimming pool, business centre (with computers, printers, and other office equipment), childcare, conference and event facilities, tennis or basketball courts, gymnasium, restaurants, day spa, and social function services. Hotel rooms are usually numbered (or named in some smaller hotels and B&Bs) to allow guests to identify their room. Some boutique, high-end hotels have custom decorated rooms. Some hotels offer meals as part of a room and board arrangement. In Jap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe"). Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from which it borrows technical terminology, classification into genres, and many of its theme (arts), themes, stock characters, and plot elements. Theatre art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kindergarten
Kindergarten is a preschool educational approach based on playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school. Such institutions were originally made in the late 18th century in Germany, Bavaria and Alsace to serve children whose parents both worked outside home. The term was coined by German pedagogue Friedrich Fröbel, whose approach globally influenced early-years education. Today, the term is used in many countries to describe a variety of educational institutions and learning spaces for children ranging from 2 to 6 years of age, based on a variety of teaching methods. History Early years and development In 1779, Johann Friedrich Oberlin and Louise Scheppler founded in Strasbourg an early establishment for caring for and educating preschool children whose parents were absent during the day. At about the same time, in 1780, similar infant establishments were created in Bavaria. In 1802, Princess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are often caught as wildlife from the natural environment, but may also be caught from stocked bodies of water such as ponds, canals, park wetlands and reservoirs. Fishing techniques include hand-gathering, spearing, netting, angling, shooting and trapping, as well as more destructive and often illegal techniques such as electrocution, blasting and poisoning. The term fishing broadly includes catching aquatic animals other than fish, such as crustaceans (shrimp/lobsters/ crabs), shellfish, cephalopods (octopus/squid) and echinoderms (starfish/sea urchins). The term is not normally applied to harvesting fish raised in controlled cultivations ( fish farming). Nor is it normally applied to hunting aquatic mammals, where terms like whaling and sealing are used instead. Fishing has been an important part of human culture since hunter-gatherer times, and is one of the few food production activities that ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steinkjer
Steinkjer is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Steinkjer which is located on the inner part of the Trondheimsfjord. The town is also the administrative centre for Trøndelag county. Other populated areas in Steinkjer include the villages of Ogndal, Hyllbrua, Gaulstad, Beitstad, Bartnes, Vellamelen, Stod, Binde, Sunnan, Byafossen, Følling, Kvam, Lerkehaug, Mære, Sparbu, Vassaunet, Vekre, Malm, Follafoss, Sela, and Verrastranda. The municipality is the 31st largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Steinkjer is the 53rd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 24,004. The municipality's population density is and its population has decreased by 0.02% over the previous 10-year period. General information The village of Steinkjer in the municipality of Stod was declared a kjøpstad (town) in 1857, and then on 23 January 1858 it was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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