Fagernes ( se, Čoalbmi) is a suburb of

Narvik ( se, Áhkanjárga) is the third-largest municipality in Nordland county, Norway, by population. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Narvik. Some of the notable villages in the municipality include Ankenesstranda, Ba ...

Nordland Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, the least populous of all 11 counties, bordering Troms og Finnmark in the north, Trøndelag in the south, ...

county, Norway. Fagernes lies on the north side of Beis Fjord just southeast of Narvik and north of

Ankenesstranda Ankenesstranda or Ankenesstrand (sometimes simply called "Ankenes") is a village in Narvik Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The village is located just west of the town of Narvik and just east of the village of Håkvik. The village lies ...

(Ankenes). Today Fagernes is best known as the terminus of the

Ofoten Line The Ofoten Line ( no, Ofotbanen) is a railway line in Narvik, Norway. It runs from the Port of Narvik to Riksgränsen on the Norway–Sweden border, where the line continues as the Ore Line via Kiruna and Gällivare to Luleå. The Ofoten Lin ...

. The Ofoten Line has its terminus at the Fagernes terminal, a large industrial area of Fagernes.

History

In the 1800s there was a large farm called ''Fagernes gård'' 'Fagernes farm' where Fagernes stands today. The farm was the largest and wealthiest in the inner part of the

Ofoten Ofoten is a traditional district in Nordland county in Northern Norway. It consists of the municipalities of Tysfjord, Ballangen, Evenes, Tjeldsund, Narvik, and Lødingen. It is named after the main fjord, Ofotfjorden, which is at the ce ...

district, which later became part of the former municipality of

Ankenes Ankenes is a former municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1884 until 1974. It encompassed most of the present-day Narvik Municipality, surrounding of the town of Narvik which was once its own municipality. T ...

. This farm was of central importance in the effort to get the railroad built from

Kiruna (; se, Giron ; fi, Kiiruna ) is the northernmost city in Sweden, situated in the province of Lapland. It had 17,002 inhabitants in 2016 and is the seat of Kiruna Municipality (population: 23,167 in 2016) in Norrbotten County. The city was ori ...

to Narvik in the late 1800s. The wealthy farmer Statius Mosling (1853–1934) at the Fagernes farm was very eager to have the railroad built to Narvik. It was also due to Mosling that the Ofoten Line ends in Fagernes and not in Narvik. When Narvik was separated from Ankenes as its own urban municipality in 1902, Fagernes was also included with it.

Community

Today, Fagernes is a suburb of Narvik, mainly consisting of residential buildings and an industrial area called the Fagernes terminal ( no, Fagernesterminalen).

Transportation links

Fagernes is connected to Narvik to the northwest by

European route E6 European route E6 ( no, Europavei 6, sv, Europaväg 6, or simply E6) is the main north-south thoroughfare through Norway as well as the west coast of Sweden. It is long and runs from the southern tip of Sweden at Trelleborg, into Norway and ...

via the

Fagernes Tunnel is a town in Nord-Aurdal Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The town is the administrative centre of the municipality as well as the largest urban/commercial centre for the Valdres region. It is located just northwest of the village of ...

, which was opened in 2004 and replaced the old road, which went directly through the most densely settled area. To the south, Fagernes is connected to Ankenesstranda (Ankenes), also in the municipality of Narvik, by E6 via the

Beisfjord Bridge The Beisfjord Bridge ( no, Beisfjordbrua) is a girder bridge in Narvik Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The concrete bridge crosses the Beisfjorden on the west side of the town of Narvik. The bridge connects Ankenes, a residential area ...

over Beis Fjord. Further to the east, County Road 751 connects Fagernes to the village of

Beisfjord Beisfjord is a village in Narvik Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The village is located about southeast of the town of Narvik, at the southeastern end of the long Beisfjorden (an arm off of the large Ofotfjorden). The village sits ...

. Fagernes is also connected to Narvik by rail via the

, but this part of the Ofoten Line is only a freight route and there is no passenger transport on the route. Nordland county also offers bus service from Narvik via Fagernes to Beisfjord, Ankenesstranda (Ankenes), and

Håkvik or is a village in Narvik Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The village is located along the southern shore of the Ofotfjorden, southwest of the town of Narvik and the village of Ankenesstranda. Håkvik Chapel was built here in 1980. ...

Schools

Narvik Montessori School ( se, Áhkanjárga) is the third-largest municipality in Nordland county, Norway, by population. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Narvik. Some of the notable villages in the municipality include Ankenesstranda, Ball ...

in Fagernes is a

primary school A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ed ...

offering first- to seventh-grade education. When students have finished seventh grade, they transfer to one of the secondary schools in the city of Narvik. It is located in the premises of the former Fagernes Primary School, which operated from 1957 to 2013. The public school was shut down as an economizing measure in the wake of the municipality of Narvik being added to the

ROBEK The Register for Governmental Approval of Financial Obligations (in Norwegian ''Register om betinget godkjenning og kontroll'', often shortened to ''ROBEK'') is a Norwegian government register of municipalities and counties who have not submitted a ...

registry due to involvement in the

Terra Securities scandal The Terra Securities scandal was a scandal that became public in November 2007. It involved highly speculative investments by eight municipalities of Norway in various hedge funds in the United States bond market.Mark Landler"U.S. Credit Crisis Ad ...

.Hansen, Fritz. 2014. Frykter katastrofe for kommunen etter Fjellkraft-skandalen. ''Fremover'' (March 11).
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References

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