Kongsberg in Norway

4 June 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

Mint and silver works © Bjoertvedt/cc-by-sa-3.0-no

Mint and silver works © Bjoertvedt/cc-by-sa-3.0-no

Kongsberg is a town and municipality in Buskerud county. It is located at the southern end of the traditional region of Numedal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kongsberg. The town was founded in 1624 under the name Konings Bierg by Danish-Norwegian king Christian IV as a mining community. It was granted its royal charter of trade—amounting to official township—in 1802. The municipality of Kongsberg was established on 1 January 1838 (see Formannskapsdistrikt). The rural municipalities of Ytre Sandsvær and Øvre Sandsvær were merged into the municipality of Kongsberg on 1 January 1964.   read more…

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