Urnes stave Church Norway
Norway`s oldest stave Church, built around 1130. Wood in the building are dated back to the middle of year 900. Urnes Stave Church was enlisted on the UNESCO world Heritage list in 1979. The stave Church was saved and owned by Fortidsminneforeningen in 1881.
Urnes stave Church is located deep into the beautiful Lustrafjord in Luster municipality, Sogn og Fjordane, The green coloured fjord is due to water from the glaciers up into the Mountains.
The Stave Church is really worth a visit, and it is open to the Public from 2nd May to 30th September. A Ferry takes you from Solvorn to Urnes every hour, or you could drive around by using the narrow but Scenic road from Skjolden.
Music: Last Spring by Edvard Grieg, performed by Bergen Philharmonic Orkestra, License through BIS & Robert Von Bahr.
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Urnes Stave Church (UNESCO/NHK)
The wooden church of Urnes (the stavkirke) stands in the natural setting of Sogn og Fjordane. It was built in the 12th and 13th centuries and is an outstanding example of traditional Scandinavian wooden architecture. It brings together traces of Celtic art, Viking traditions and Romanesque spatial structures.
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Norway - Urnes stavkirke (stave church)
Urnes Stave Church is no. 58 on UNESCO's World Heritage List.
This stave church in Sogn og Fjordane dates back to the first half of the 12th century. It is generally regarded as the oldest of the 28 remaining stave churches and recognized for its very fine woodwork. The carvings are amazing.
Some images courtesy of @hannekarins
Read more on the Sandalsand travel blog. This video is part of a series about stave churches in Norway.
Urnes stavkyrkje - Urnes Stave Church
Urnes stavkyrkje is a stave church at the Ornes farm, near Lustrafjorden in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It was built around 1130 and is an outstanding example of traditional Scandinavian wooden architecture. It still stands in its original location. The church is believed to be the oldest of its kind. It provides a link between Christian architecture and the architecture and artforms of the Viking Age with typical animal-ornamentation, the so called Urnes-style of animal-art.
In 1979 the Urnes stave church was listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Norway June 2016: Lustrafjord, Nigardsbreen Glacier, Stave Churches
Norway June 2016,. Fjords, Stave Churches
Lærdal Tunnel
Lustrafjord
Dale Church
Nigardsbreen Glacier
Urnes Stave Church
Borgund Stave Church
Norway - Borgund stavkirke (stave church)
Borgund dates back to the end of the 12th century. It had a strategic location in Sogn og Fjordane County on the old road connecting the eastern and western parts of Norway. This is an absolutely stunning beauty. It is the best preserved of all stave churches and it looks like a stave church should.
Some images courtesy of @hannekarins
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Hopperstad Stave Church / Stavkirke de Hopperstad (Norway/Norge)
(EN) Hopperstad Stave Church is a stave church, just outside the village of Vikøyri in Vik Municipality, Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. The church is currently owned by the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments. The two old parishes of Hopperstad and Hove was abolished in 1875, and replaced by the new, united, Vik parish. The new Vik Church was finished in 1877, and the two middle age churches of Hopperstad and Hove have sice then been museum churches. Vik parish is a part of Indre Sogn deanery in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.
The stave church is assumed to have been built around the year 1130 and still stands at its original location. In 1997, a series of samples from the logs were collected for dendrochronological dating of the church. A total of seven samples produced an estimate for the construction ranging from 1034 to 1116 and resulted in no definite conclusion. The only possible conclusion is that this is one of the oldest stave churches still standing.
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Undredal, Borgund & Urnes Stave Churches, Norway
Clips from the Undredal Stavkyrkje (built in 1147), Borgund Stavkyrkje (built in 1180) and Urnes Stavkyrkje (built in the 1130's). Also includes clips from St. Olaf's Church in Balestrand, which was the real life inspiration for the church in Disney's Frozen (where Elsa's coronation happens). Recorded on August 27, 2019 (Undredal) and August 28, 2019 (Balestrand, Borgund and Urnes).
Norway - Kaupanger stavkirke (stave church)
Kaupanger in Sogn og Fjordane was built in 1137 and is one of the oldest stave churches. It has been rebuilt and enlarged and was even painted white like other churches in Norway a hundred years ago. However the medieval construction is intact and it is regarded as a well preserved church.
Some images courtesy of @hannekarins
Read more on the Sandalsand travel blog. This video is part of a series about stave churches in Norway.
Borgund stavkirke - The Borgund Stave church - Borgund Stabkirche Norwegen
Borgund stavkirke i Lærdal i Sogn og Fjordane. Bygd i perioden 1180 til 1200. Stavene er de kraftige loddrette stolpene som bærer midtskipet.
The Borgund stave church in Laerdal in western Norway. The church was erected in the period 1180 to 1200 AD. Location 61.04724°N 7.81224°E.
Borgund Stabkirche in Lærdal im West-Norwegen.
De Borgund staafkerk in Laerdal in het westen van Noorwegen.
Norwegian Legacy - Episode 08: Kaupanger Stave Church
Another jewel hidden in the Fjords, in the small village of Kaupanger.
Kaupanger stave church is very unique in many regards and is another fantastic landmark in Norway.
Borgund Stave Church
Borgund Stave Church (Nynorsk: Borgund stavkyrkje, Bokmål: Borgund stavkirke) is a stave church located in the village of Borgund in the municipality of Lærdal in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is classified as a triple nave stave church of the so-called Sogn-type. This is also the best preserved of Norway's 28 extant stave churches. The church is part of the Borgund parish in the Indre Sogn deanery in the Diocese of Bjørgvin, although it is no longer used regularly for church functions, it is now used as a museum and it is run by the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments.
Borgund Stave Church was built sometime between 1180 and 1250 AD with later additions and restorations. Its walls are formed by vertical wooden boards, or staves, hence the name stave church. The four corner posts were connected to one another by ground sills, resting on a stone foundation. The rest of the staves then rise from the ground sills, each stave notched and grooved along the sides so that they lock into one another, forming a sturdy wall.
Borgund is built on a basilica plan, with reduced side aisles, with an added chancel and apse. It has a raised central nave demarcated on four sides by an arcade. An ambulatory runs around this platform and into the chancel and apse, both added in the 14th century. An additional ambulatory, in the form of a porch, runs around the exterior of the building, sheltered under the overhanging shingled roof. The floor plan of this church resembles that of a central plan, double-shelled Greek cross with an apse attached to one end in place of the fourth arm. The entries to the church are in the three arms of the almost-cross.
The ceiling is held up with scissor beams or two steeply angled supports crossing each other to form an X shape with a narrow top span and a broader bottom span. The lower ends of the X shape are joined by a bottom truss to prevent the X from collapsing. In the case of Borgund, an additional beam cuts across the X below the crossing point but above the bottom truss, for extra stability. This stabilizes the steeply pitched roof, consisting of horizontal boards covered in shingles. Originally, the roof would have been covered on the outside with boards running lengthwise, like the composition of the roof beneath it, however in later years wooden shingles became more common. Scissor beam roof construction is typical of most stave churches.
Bracing in the form of cross-shaped trusses also appears on the walls of the building itself, diagonal beams running up the walls from the floor to about level with the top of the arcade. Further crossing, this time in a more ornamental sense appears in the cross shaped carvings with medallions in the center, commonly dubbed Saint Andrew's crosses which run along the area above the arcade, in the visual second story that is not actually a gallery but is located where one is commonly put in large stone churches elsewhere in Europe at this time. Near these smaller crosses are the pincer beams, running between the columns to help further wedge everything firmly together. The most important bracing elements are the carved buttresses that are supported by knee joints and arc upward from the outer wall to the top of the arcade as these help to support the outward thrust on the stave walls.
Borgund has tiered, overhanging roofs, topped with a tower. On the gables of the roof, there are four carved dragon heads, swooping from the carved roof ridge crests, recalling the carved dragon heads found on the prows of Norse ships. Similar gable heads also appear on small bronze house shaped reliquaries common in Norway in this period. Borgund's current dragon heads possibly date from the 18th century, however original dragon heads remaining on earlier structures, such as Lom stave church and nearby Urnes stave church, the oldest still extant stave church, also in the Sogn district, suggest that there probably would have been similar dragon heads there at one time. Borgund is one of the only churches to still have preserved its ridge crests, carved with openwork vine and vegetal repeating designs. The dragons on top of the church were often used as a form of drainage.
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Costa Luminosa - Borgund Stave Church
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Cruzeiro Costa Luminosa -- 20 Julho a 01 Agosto de 2010
Portos Escala: Amesterdão - Hellesylt/Geiranger - Honningsav - Tromso - Gravdal - Trondheim - Andalsnes - Bergen - Amesterdão
28/07/2010 -- Flåm
Flåm é uma vila norueguesa com cerca de 500 habitantes, na extremidade interna do Aurlandsfjord, um braço do Sognefjord. A cidade está localizada no município de Aurland, no condado de Sogn og Fjordane, na Noruega
O nome Flåm está documentado já em 1340 como Flaam. É derivado do plural do significado da palavra Old Norse flá lisa, plana pedaço de terra, e refere-se à planície de inundação do rio Flåm.
A aldeia de Flåm é um popular destino turístico e tem sido assim desde o final do século 19. Actualmente, recebe cerca de 450.000 visitantes por ano. A maioria vêm para apreciar os 20 KM espectaculares de ferrovia, o Flåmsbana entre Flåm e Myrdal. Um edifício da antiga estação ferroviária em Flåm abriga agora um museu dedicado ao transporte ferroviário sobre o Flåmsbana.
O porto de Flåm recebe cerca de 131 navios de cruzeiro por ano.
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Costa Luminosa Cruise -- 20 July to 01 August 2010
Ports: Amsterdam - Hellesylt/Geiranger - Honningsav - Tromso - Gravdal - Trondheim - Andalsnes - Bergen - Amsterdam
28/07/2010 -- Flåm
Flåm is a Norwegian village with some 500 inhabitants, at the inner end of the Aurlandsfjord, an arm of the Sognefjord. The town is located in the municipality of Aurland, in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway
The name Flåm is documented as early as 1340 as Flaam. It is derived from the plural dative form of the Old Norse word flá meaning plain, flat piece of land, and it refers to the flood plains of the Flåm River.
The village of Flåm is a popular tourist destination and has been so since the late 19th century. It currently receives almost 450,000 visitors a year. Most come to enjoy the spectacular 20-kilometer Flåmsbana railway between Flåm and Myrdal, one of the steepest railway tracks at 1 in 18 (not counting rack railways) in the world. There are also a few spirals. A former rail station building in Flåm now houses a museum dedicated to the Flåmsbana railway.
The harbour of Flåm receives some 131 cruise ships per year.
Music: Instrumental
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Norway Cruise - Skjolden
August 2, 2018 - Today we stopped at the peaceful village of Skjolden, the innermost point of Norway's longest fjord. Early in the morning I went on an excursion to Urnes Stave Church before spending the afternoon walking around this place.
Ferry from Solvorn to Urnes in Norway
Ferry from Solvorn to Urnes in Norway
Lustrafjorden minutt for minutt - NRK Sogn & Fjordane
Lustrafjorden minutt for minutt - NRK Sogn og Fjordane
Filmen startar i Marifjøra og endar i Skjolden.
Filmen kan vises i 1080 HD
Foto/ redigering Truls Kleiven.
Produsert på oppdrag for NRK Sogn & Fjordane.
Huset på solstrand
Litt lenger drone-video av huset på Solstrand.
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Visit norwegian skanzen Otternes Bygdetum & Flåm & Aurland & Norway travel vlog (Norge Scandinavia)
In my travel vlog video from Norway (Scandinavia) you can see Otternes, a Norwegian linear - and cluster collective farmyard midway between Aurland and Flåm in Sogn og Fjordane county. The farmyard consists of 27 buildings. Free Entry. Enjoy norwegian history.
A drive up Jostedalen to the Nigardsbreen glacier, Luster, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
A beautiful drive up Jostedalen, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. Passing (in order) Ryefossen (1100 ft), Morkateiggrøvene (1902 ft), Kvernusfoss (100 ft), and Geisfossen waterfalls, and ending at the Nigardsbreen Glacier. We also encountered rafters on the Jostedalen River. Shot 7/15/14