Nesbyen is a town and the

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Nesbyen Nesbyen is a town and the administrative center in Nesbyen (municipality), Nesbyen municipality in the county of Buskerud, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Hallingdal. Summary Having a population of about 3,500 inhabitant ...

municipality in the county of

Buskerud Buskerud () is a Counties of Norway, county and a current electoral district in Norway, bordering Akershus, Oslo, Innlandet, Vestland, Telemark and Vestfold. The region extends from the Oslofjord and Drammensfjorden in the southeast to Hardanger ...

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. It is located in the traditional district of

Hallingdal Hallingdal () is a valley as well as a traditional district located in the traditional and electoral district Buskerud county in Norway. It consists of six municipalities: Flå, Nes, Gol, Hemsedal, Ål and Hol. Hallingdal is one of the ma ...

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Having a population of about 3,500 inhabitants, Nesbyen is located on

Norwegian National Road 7 Norwegian National Road 7 (, ) is a national road in Norway which runs from the town of Hønefoss in Buskerud county to the village of Granvin in Vestland county. The route is long and runs east–west through Viken and Vestland counties ove ...

and the

Bergen Line The Bergen Line, or the Bergen Railway ( or ), is a long scenic overlook, scenic standard gauge railway line between Bergen and Hønefoss, Norway. The name is often applied to the entire route from Bergen to Oslo, including the Randsfjord Line ...

railroad which runs between

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and

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Nesbyen Station Nesbyen Station () is a railway station located at Nesbyen Nes, Norway. The station is served by six daily express trains operated by Vy Tog. The station was opened as part of the Bergen Line The Bergen Line, or the Bergen Railway ( or ), is ...

was opened in 1907 when the Bergen Railway was opened to

Gulsvik Gulsvik is a village in the municipality of Flå in Buskerud, Norway. It is located in Hallingdal at the north end of Lake Krøderen. The center of the village lies at Gulsvik Rail Station. Bergensbanen railway terminated at Gulsvik Station fro ...

. Gamle Nes is the oldest part of the town and most buildings in Gamle Nes date to before 1900. Nesbyen was an early administrative center for Hallingdal. Most of Nesbyen is surrounded by mountains on several sides, with good roads to most mountain areas. Hallingnatten is the municipality's highest point, 1,314 meters above sea level.

Hallingdal Museum Hallingdal Museum Nesbyen (formerly Hallingdal Folkemuseum) is an open-air museum at Nesbyen in Buskerud, Buskerud county, Norway. Hallingdal Folk Museum was founded in 1899. It is one of the oldest open-air museums in Norway. The museum has 30 h ...

, founded in 1899 and one of the oldest open-air museums in Norway, is stationed in Nesbyen. The Hallingdal Museum organization has professional, administrative, and operational responsibility for the museums in Hallingdal. Nesbyen is listed as the location with the highest recorded temperature in Norway, with a record of set on 20 June 1970. Nes kraftverk is a hydroelectric power station 4 km north of Nesbyen. The power plant was commissioned in 1967 and takes advantage of a drop of 285 meters from the Strandefjorden. It has four

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of 70 MW each and is the largest and lowest power plant in the Hallingdal River watershed (''Hallingdalsvassdraget''). The normal annual production is about 1330 GWh. Besides intake from Strandefjorden, water is taken from the rivers Ridola, Lya, and

Votna Votna is a lake in Ullensvang Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The lake lies about straight east of the village of Røldal. The European route E134 highway runs along the northern part of the lake. There is a dam on the southwest end ...

. Water is also transferred from the river Rukkedøla through a separate tunnel. The power plant is owned and operated by

E-CO Energi E-CO Energi is a Norwegian power company and after Statkraft the second largest producer of electricity in Norway. Structure E-CO is wholly owned by the City of Oslo. Operations are divided into E-CO Vannkraft, E-CO Norne and Oslo Lysverker. E ...

. Nes Church in Hallingdal (''Nes kirke i Hallingdal'') was constructed during 1861 and was designed by architect

Georg Andreas Bull Georg Andreas Bull (26 March 1829 – 1 February 1917) was a Norwegian architect and chief building inspector in Oslo, Christiania (now Oslo) for forty years. He was among the major architects in the country, and performed surveying studies and ...

. The church has 500 seats and was constructed of timber on a foundation of natural stone. Nes Chapel (''Nes kapell'') at Nes Cemetery was built in 1953–54, and was made as an imitation of the Nes Stave Church, which was demolished almost a hundred years earlier.

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Nesbyen Official websiteNes kommune Official website Gamle Nes official website)Nes Church (Nesbyen) website
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