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Trondheim

 
In the year 997 King Olav Tryggvason founded the town on the delta where the river Nið wound its way into the fjord. In 1030 the christian King Olav Haraldson, fighting an army worshiping Odin and Thor, fell on Stiklestad and the body was brought to the town. The year after he was declared holy and from then on until the Lutheran Reformation in 1537 pilgrims came from Catholic Europe to the grave and the Cathedral above it. The town was then known as Niðaróss, "Nið's Mouth". During the 1300s the name changed to Trondhiem, and at some time Nið got the 'river' suffix and became Nidelva (or Nidelven in Danish-Norwegian lingo). After an interlude 1930–31 with the name 'Nidaros', the town's name has been Trondheim as decided by the country's elected parliament (Stortinget). Now the population of the municipality is about 160,000. This includes some rural areas around the town, but not all 30,000 students living here temporarily.
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The town square with the statue of the town founder King Olav Tryggvason



 

The Nidaros Cathedral on the other side of the river Nidelva.



 

Nidaros Cathedral, the West Wall



 

Stiftsgården – the royal residence whenever they stay in Trondheim



 

The Stiftsgården Park on the rear side, open to the public



 

View from the Kristiansten Fortress, the Cathedral and Nidelva



 

View from Elgeseter Bridge: Nidelva and Kristiansten Fortress



 

The Kristiansten Fortress was built in the years 1682-84 to protect the town from the Swedes



 

"Family day" on the fortress – with gunsmoke



 

View from Kristiansten towards Trondheimsfjorden with the islet Munkholmen



 

Munholmen is an islet about two kilometers off the Trondheim harbor



 

The Munkholmen children's beach inside the breakwater



 

From the pedestrian street Nordre (gate) terminated by Our Lady's Church



 

Vår frues kirke (Our Lady's Church)



 

The Old Town Bridge (1885)



 

The Old Town Bridge with the "Portal of Joy"



 

The foot of the steep street Brubakken



 

The top of the street Brubakken and the bicycle lift Trampe



 

A Bakklandet street with the old, but renovated wooden houses



 

Another Bakklandet street and more wooden houses



 

A little house, water trickling inside (I believed they were extinct)



 

The old wharf storehouses on the bank of the river Nidelva



 

Three warehouses from the 1860s destroyed by fire 17 May 2007



 

The Royal Garden Hotel replacing six wharf warehouses destroyed by fire



 

The "Flower Bridge", correctly named Verftsbrua, crossing Nidelva



 

The "Flower Bridge" on a cold winter day.



 

The Canal at the railway station



 

The railway station



 

A tourist ship in Trondheim



 

Ilsvikøra with the small renovated workers' houses.



 

From the Ila Park, a good place for children



 

Statue of Sverre Sigurdson, king of Norway 1177–1202, in the Ila Park.



 

The Tyholt Tower with antennas and a rotating restaurant.



 

The park Marinen, Nidelva, Elgeseter Bridge and the students' round house



 

The students' house, 'Samfundet'



 

The main building (1910) of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology



 

The Science building where they teach physics, chemistry and biology



 

Lunchtime on Gløshaugen campus



 

The SINTEF Multiphase Flow Laboratory at the river Nidelva (and more about SINTEF)



 

Sverresborg museum. The rock of King Sverre's fort.



 

Sverresborg museum. Old houses below the fort ruins.



 

Sverresborg museum. Houses that might catch fire.



 

Statue of Peter Wessel Tordenskiold (1690-1720) on Ringve museum and botanical garden



 

Ringve – a part of the garden and arboretum.



 

The old powerhouse from 1910, Nedre Leirfoss



 

The Nedre Leirfoss powerhouse seen through the waterfall haze



 

Øvre Leirfoss, another waterfall and powerhouse in Nidelva



 

Granåsen, the main ski jumping hill in Trondheim



 

Granåsen, preparing for summer ski jumping



 

A sculpture of skiers on Granåsen



 

This is also Trondheim; adjacent farmland



 

View towards Hårstad and Sjetnan from the North Tiller farm.



 

Another farm, Hårstad, snow falling



 

Where the old Tiller church disappeared ...



 

Motor and pedestrian roads in the suburb Tillerbyen



 

Ringvebukta (the Ringve Cove) with the 'Wooden Shingles House' and the Lade fjord walk.



 

Warning signs at the outlet of the lake Jonsvatnet, Trondheim



 

Sunrise in Trondheim 15th of June



 

E C Dahl

There is still a brewery in Trondheim, founded in 1856. Skål, my friends!

Trondheim's official website

The Trondheim Rose may seve better as a Trondheim logo. Click on it, and you'll be transferred to the English version of Trondheim's official website.

coat of arms

Getting even more serious, this is Trondheim's coat of arms, of ancient origin (thirteenth century) and rather elaborate by present standards.

stamp

Trondheim's millennium anniversary postage stamp – 1997.

 

Another theme page from Trondheim (Springtime section) is

Constitution Day

showing a picture series from the town square 17 May 2004

This page was changed 2008-02-12

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