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* Tønsberg Cathedral ( Tønsberg domkirke ) – Brick church from 1858 with pulpit from 1621 and an altarpiece from 1764.
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Tønsberg and Cathedral
Tønsberg Cathedral ( Tønsberg domkirke )
H. M. King Haakon VII was present at the episcopal consecration in Tønsberg Cathedral on June 20, 1948.
Tønsberg Cathedral was constructed of red brick and consecrated December 19, 1858.
Beside Tønsberg Cathedral is the Park of Remembrance.
Tønsberg and domkirke
His statue, by Norwegian sculptor Anders Svor, was erected outside the cathedral in Tønsberg ( Tønsberg domkirke ) in 1915.
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* April 25 – 26 – WWII: Last major strategic bombing raid by RAF Bomber Command, the destruction of the oil refinery at Tønsberg in southern Norway by 107 Avro Lancasters.
* 7 November – – A new segment of the Vestfold Line with double track between Barkåker and Tønsberg, including the Jarlsberg Tunnel, is taken into use.
In Norway and Sweden the E18 runs Kristiansand – Arendal – Porsgrunn – Larvik – Sandefjord – Tønsberg – Horten – Drammen – Oslo – Ås – Askim – Karlstad ( in Sweden ) – Örebro – Västerås – Stockholm / Kapellskär.
In 1901, Tønsberg – Eidsfoss Line between Tønsberg and Eidsfoss.
* Barkåker – Tønsberg ( 7. 7 km )
* Jan 1664 – 1699 Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, greve til Laurvig og Tønsberg ( b. 1638 – d. 1704 )
Tønsberg and from
Informed in October that the Danes had abandoned the crossing for the winter, and in what Willson calls " the one romantic episode of his life ," James sailed from Leith with a three-hundred-strong retinue to fetch his queen personally, arriving in Oslo on 19 November after travelling by land from Flekkefjord via Tønsberg.
The airline applied the following for domestic concessions and was granted the route from Oslo via Tønsberg Airport, Jarlsberg to Stavanger.
Hamar, Farsund and Tønsberg were dropped from the schedule because they had too short runways.
In 1948, Tønsberg became the cathedral city of the Diocese of Tunsberg ( Tunsberg bispedømme ), created when the counties of Buskerud and Vestfold were separated from the Diocese of Oslo.
* Seigmen, a Norwegian alternative rock band, comes from Tønsberg.
* Jahn Teigen, the lead singer of Popol Ace ( formerly Popol Vuh ), came from Tønsberg.
Non-commercial and practice general aviation is not operated at Gardermoen, and is mainly done from Kjeller Airport, Rakkestad Airport and Tønsberg Airport, Jarlsberg.
At the time, Jarlsberg was still being used for scheduled services to Vestfold, and the plans to open Torp as a civilian airport met political resistance from Tønsberg.
Haugathing, the Thing for Vestfold in Norway, was located in Tønsberg at Haugar ( from the Old Norse haugr meaning hill or mound ).
Category: People from Tønsberg
* Vestfoldbanen: Before 2019: 17 km doubletrack connected to existing doubletrack from Drammen, and 5, 5 km doubletrack north of Tønsberg.
Category: People from Tønsberg
Category: People from Tønsberg
Category: People from Tønsberg
Bjørn Bergene, Claus Heiberg Larsen and Bård Helgeland are from Larvik, while Lise Karlsnes is from Tønsberg.
Category: People from Tønsberg
Category: People from Tønsberg
Tønsberg and with
Landscape with grainfield in Tønsberg, southeastern Norway.
The seal shows Tønsberg Fortress surrounded by a ring wall on a mountain with the sea in front.
Tønsberg municipality contains four additional urban areas: Sem, with 2, 147 inhabitants of which 2, 100 live in Tønsberg and 47 live in Stokke ; Barkåker, with 1, 292 inhabitants ; Åsgårdstrand, with 2, 847 inhabitants of which 2, 794 in Horten and 53 in Tønsberg ; and Vear, with a population of 3, 502 of which 2, 263 live in Stokke and 1, 239 live in Tønsberg.
* Marion Raven, a Norwegian singer, lived outside Tønsberg with her parents
The following cities are twinned with Tønsberg:
The bagler mostly controlled the Viken area, with the cities of Tønsberg and Oslo, king Inge controlled Trøndelag with Nidaros, while Bergen in western Norway changed hands several times.
Tønsberg and .
The local newspaper Tønsbergs Blad in Tønsberg, Norway similarly used Kult in relation to the disappearance of a boy called Andreas Hammer on July 1, 1994.
* Tønsberg, the oldest surviving town in the Nordic countries, is founded.
Margaret was born on 9 April 1283 in Tønsberg.
The establishment of cities gathered pace, and by the end of the 11th century, the three largest cities of modern-day Norway, Oslo, Trondheim ( Nidaros ) and Bergen ( Bjørgvin ) were flourishing, as well as Tønsberg, the most important city in Eastern Norway until c. 1300.
Harald was in Tønsberg when he heard of King Sigurd's death.
The oldest clock was made by Laxevaag Værk in Bergen in 1865, while the other was made by O. Olsen & Son in Tønsberg in 1955.
In 1589, James VI of Scotland landed there before travelling overland via Tønsberg to Oslo, where he married Princess Anne of Denmark, daughter of Frederick II.
The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Tønsberg.
Tønsberg is generally regarded as the oldest town in Norway.
The rural municipality of Sem was merged into the municipality of Tønsberg on 1 January 1988.
According to Snorri Sturluson, Tønsberg was founded before the Battle of Hafrsfjord, which, according to Snorri, took place in 871.
However, if the battle did in fact take place in 871, this would make Tønsberg the oldest present Scandinavian city.
In the 13th century, King Haakon Haakonson set up a castle in Tønsberg, Tønsberg Fortress.
The town was destroyed by fire in 1536, but Tønsberg remained one of the most important harbour towns in Norway.
During the German occupation of Norway in World War II, the Berg concentration camp was constructed near Tønsberg.
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