The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kongsberg.

Today, Kongsberg is perhaps best known for being the home of Norway's major defense contractor, Kongsberg Gruppen, formerly Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk.

The name Konings Bierg, a modern form Kongsberg, is based on the following two elements: the genitive case of konge which means " king " ( referring to king Christian IV ) and berg which means " mountain ".

Today, the separate firms thrive as one of Norway's main high-tech industrial clusters, centering on the defence and maritime company Kongsberg Gruppen which is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange.

Kongsberg is also home to the Mint of Norway (), which exclusively makes Norwegian coins.

Their medals and equipment can be seen at the Kongsberg Skiing Museum ( Kongsberg Skimuseum ) which is co-located with the Norwegian Mining Museum ( Norsk Bergverksmuseum ) in central Kongsberg.

Crown in Håvet ( Kronene i Håvet ) is where Norwegian royal monograms have been carved into the mountainside overlooking Kongsberg to mark royal visits to the city.

In June 1704 King Frederik IV visited Kongsberg and started a tradition that is alive to this day.

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The municipality is located in the southern part of Buskerud county and is bordered by the municipalities of Kongsberg, Flesberg, Sigdal, Modum, Lier, Nedre Eiker, and Hof.

The economy of Flesberg is dominated by forestry and agriculture, as well as the cluster of high-tech industries in neighbouring town of Kongsberg.

It is one of two towns in Norway that were historically designated " mining towns ", along with the " silver-town " of Kongsberg.

: " The Kongsberg Group ") is a Norwegian defence contractor and maritime automation supplier, located in Kongsberg, a former mining town.

Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS ( KDA ), one of two operating companies of Kongsberg Gruppen ( KOG ) of Norway, is a supplier of defence and space related systems and products, mainly anti-ship missiles, military communications, and command and weapons control systems for naval vessels and air-defence applications.

Today, the company is probably best known abroad for its development / industrialisation and production of the first passive IR homing anti-ship missile of the western world, the Penguin, starting delivery in the early 1970s ( when KDA was part of KOG's predecessor Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk ).

It is fully owned by Kongsberg Gruppen ASA ( a company that has a majority ownership by Norway's government.

The Norwegian plant, in Kongsberg, is the former Norsk Jetmotor ( eng., " Norwegian Jet Engine "), itself formerly a part of Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk.

Two of its well known products were the Kongsberg Colt and the Krag-Jørgensen rifle.

In 1974, a Canadian subsidiary known as Kongsberg Mesotech Ltd was established for the development and manufacturing of underwater surveillance systems.

Compilers were made for Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk's SM-4 and Norsk Data Nord-10 / ND-100 mini-computers.

Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania said " What Toshiba and Kongsberg did was ransom the security of the United States for $ 517 million.

* Königsberg, German name for Kongsberg in Norway

Kongsberg Satellite Services of Norway, among several other external partners, provides ground station services for Radarsat-2 including the provision of data under Canadian Space Agency science programmes.

Kongsberg SIM's Coin library and TGS's Inventor are still thriving under active development, and both have added numerous improvements to the original Inventor API like extensive support for the VRML standard.

The PG version, for " precision guided ", adds a seeker developed by Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace to the front of any version of an otherwise unmodified CRV7.

The reason for this is that Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk manufactured the bayonets, and shipped them to Carl Johans Vern where they were fitted to the individual rifles.

In early May 2008, Renault Trucks Defence signed an eight-year, 20 million euro contract with Kongsberg Gruppen of Norway, for equipping the VAB with subsidiary Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace's Protector M151 Remote Weapon Station.

With the exception of the first 10, 000 rifles and 20, 000 actions ( for conversions of older rifles ), which were made by Remington in the US, all Model 1867 Remington rolling block rifles and carbines were made under license in Sweden and Norway, by Carl Gustafs stads Gevärsfaktori and Husqvarna Vapenfabriks Aktiebolag in Sweden and by Kongsberg Vaapenfabrik in Norway, with the two Swedish manufacturers producing about 80 % of the weapons.

In 1880 Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk delivered 72 conversion kits for the rifles which allowed less expensive 22LR ammunition to be fired from the M1867 for training.

In addition to the attack on the labour office the recommendation for this award mentions the theft of 75, 000 ration books, which allowed pressure to be placed on authorities, stopping a threatened cut in rations ; the destruction of sulfuric acid manufacturing facilities in Lysaker ; destroying or seriously damaging over 40 aircraft, and related equipment which were being repaired at a tram company depot in Korsvoll ; destroying a railway locomotive which was under repair at Skabo ; destroying a number of Bofors guns, a field gun and vital machine tools at the Kongsberg arms factory ; and starting a large fire in an oil storage depot at Oslo harbour which destroyed large quantities of lubricating oil and other specialist oils.

Kongsberg Satellite Services of Norway, among several other external partners, provides ground station services for Radarsat-2 including the provision of data under Canadian Space Agency science programmes.

The festival is also a great opportunity for young talented musicians to perform, and many now well-known Norwegian jazz-artists have begun their career in Kongsberg.

The Norwegian company Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace teamed up with Raytheon and initiated the NASAMS programme as a cooperative effort for the Royal Norwegian Air Force.

He retired due to injury in December 1981, but later returned to play for Colchester United, Middlesbrough, Harwich & Parkeston, Sandvikens IF, Kongsberg IF, Nybergsund IL-Trysil and Clacton Town.

The name changed again in 1995 to the present Kongsberg Gruppen following its listing on the Oslo Stock Exchange in 1993.

Space related activities are conducted within KDA itself in addition to its subsidiaries, Kongsberg Spacetec ( wholly owned ) and Kongsberg Satellite Services ( 50 % owned by KDA, 50 % by the Norwegian Space Centre ), both located in Tromsø.

In 1866 he was ordered to Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk, the most important Norwegian weapons factory of its day.

A silver mine opened at Kongsberg.

The first monogram on the hillside property belonged to Christian IV who in 1624 founded the Kongsberg at the site of the newly discovered silver deposits.

Specialists from Raytheon, Simrad ( now Kongsberg Maritime ), and Hydroacoustics, Inc .; Marty Klein of MIT and Klein Associates ( a producer of side scan sonar ); and Dr. Ira Dyer of MIT's Department of Ocean Engineering were all on hand to examine the data.

Aside from mining in Kongsberg, Røros and Løkken, industrialization came with the first textile mills that were built in Norway in the middle of the 19th century.

The first ski jumping technique, the Konsberger was developed by Jacob Tullin Thams and Sigmund Ruud in Kongsberg, and was the most popular ski jumping technique from the late 1920s to the late 1950s.

The area of Jondalen was transferred from Flesberg to the neighboring municipality of Kongsberg on 1 January 1964.

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The area along the Numedalslågen from Kongsberg up to the Hardangervidda through the valley had the highest concentration of medieval log buildings.

His family had migrated from Elbing in East Prussia to Norway, first with Tobias Fleischer ( 1630 – 1690 ) who found a position in Kongsberg.