Gamlebyen, Fredrikstad, Østfold, Norway
The Fortress Town Gamlebyen (old town Fredrikstad, Østfold, Norway) – founded in 1567 by King Frederik II – is considered to be the best preserved fortified town in Northern Europe.
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The old and only fortification town in the Opera town Fredrikstad, Norway, here is the annual operafestival Opera in Fredrikstad, The Old Town in Fredrikstad, Norway is the only preserved fortification town in Europe
Best Attractions and Places to See in Fredrikstad, Norway
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List of Best Things to do in Fredrikstad , Norway
Byfergene
The Fortified Town
Gamlebyen Miniature Railroad
Isegran
Hankoe
Kongsten Fort
Oestre Fredrikstad Church
Leo's Playland
Fredrikstad Cathedral
Prehistoric Road
Welcome to Destination Fredrikstad and Hvaler!
Welcome to Destination Fredrikstad and Hvaler, beautifully situated in the outer Oslofjord. This part of Norway is a rich larder, with ingredients from the sea, fields, rivers and forests.
The archipelago Hvaler, with its 833 islands, islets and skreeies, is a coastal eldorado just waiting for you to discover them. Where the river Glomma meets Skagerak lies Fredrikstad. The Fortified Town whith it´s charming wooden houses, narrow cobbled streets, magnificent trees and fortifications.
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THE HISTORIC FORTIFIED CITY CENTRE OF FREDERIKSTAD, NORWAY
During our Scandinavian road trip we visited the historic city of Frederikstad in Norway, Northern Europe's best preserved fortified town. The city of was founded in 1567 by King Frederick II.
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Old Fredrikstad June 2011
The hands down nicest part of Fredrikstad is the old town. It was founded in 1567 by king Frederik 2 as a fortified town to protect the access to the river Glomma, Norway's longest river. It's very well preserved - better than any other town of its kind in northern Europe - and just a completely adorable place today. DO NOT miss it if you are ever in Fredrikstad. :-)
Fredrikstad Fortress
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Fredrikstad fortress was a fortification in Fredrikstad, Norway.It was the base of the Østfold Regiment, with defence related responsibilities for the east side of Oslofjord.
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Rushtid - en film fra Gamlebyen i Fredrikstad
Rush hours - a film from the Fortified town of Fredrikstad, Norway
Fredriksten Fortress, Halden Norway
Fredriksten Fortress is situated at the south-east tip of Norway, close to the border with Sweden, and it commands an elevated position above the town of Halden. It is a national border fort, and a regional cultural arena. Some of the most dramatic and bloody events in Norwegian war history have taken place here, the most well-known perhaps being the Swedish King Charles XII's death in 1718.
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Saturdays in Old Town Fredrikstad - Norway
If you love flea markets, Old Town Fredrikstad is a must see on Saturdays. This charming town also boasts 18th century buildings, 17th century fortifications, and the Gamlebyen Miniature Railroad museum.
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One of the safest places in Europe (Stable government)
Beautiful scenery (One or maybe the most beautiful cost line in Norway)
The best preserved fortified town in Northern Europe
Wonderful nightlife and good quality restaurants
Central location 20 minutes from nearest airport
Close to Scandinavia's capitals and 4 international airports within 2 hours drive
The region population is about 12 million people.
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Plenty of space: 4000-sqm with easy access to more.
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Fredrikstad is a city and municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Fredrikstad.
The city of Fredrikstad was founded in 1567 by King Frederick II, and established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The rural municipality of Glemmen was merged with Fredrikstad on 1 January 1964. The rural municipalities of Borge, Onsøy, Kråkerøy, and Rolvsøy were merged with Fredrikstad on 1 January 1994.
The city straddles the river Glomma where it meets the Skagerrak. Along with neighboring Sarpsborg, Fredrikstad forms the fifth largest city in Norway: Fredrikstad/Sarpsborg. As of 1 January 2017, according to Statistics Norway, these two municipalities have a total population of 135,347 with 80,207 in Fredrikstad and 55,140 in Sarpsborg.
Fredrikstad was built at the mouth of Glomma as a replacement after Sarpsborg (15 kilometres (9 miles) upstream) was burnt down by the Swedish Army in the 1500s. Some of the citizens stayed behind and rebuilt their old town at its original site and got their city status back in 1839.
The city centre is on the west bank of the Glomma, while the old town on the east bank is Northern Europe's best preserved fortified town.
Fredrikstad used to have a large sawmill industry and was an important harbour for timber export, then later on shipbuilding, until the main yard was closed in 1988. The main industries are currently various chemical plants and other light industry.
In 2005, Fredrikstad was the final host port for the Tall Ships' Race, attracting thousands to the city.
The city was named after the Danish king Frederick II in 1569. The last element stad means city.
The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 21 April 1967. The old arms are based on the oldest known seal of the city, which dates from 1610. They showed a fortress being guarded by a bear. Strangely, Fredrikstad had no fortifications in 1610 (it received some at the end of the 17th century). Fredrikstad was founded by citizens of Sarpsborg and both the fortress and the bear are taken from the old arms of Sarpsborg. The composition of the seal was also used as arms since the beginning of the 19th century. The new arms were granted at the 400th anniversary of the city in 1967 and show a more modern variation on the fortress and bear.
After Sarpsborg was burned to the ground during the Northern Seven Years' War, the ruling king, Frederik II of Denmark, decided by royal decree to rebuild the city 15 kilometres (9 mi) south of the original location. This new site's proximity to the sea and the accessible open land surrounding it made it a better location than the old one. The name Fredrikstad was first used in a letter from the King dated 6 February 1569. The temporary fortification built during the Hannibal War (1644–1645) between Sweden and Denmark-Norway, became permanent in the 1660s.
The work on the fortifications was first led by Willem Coucheron and later Johan Caspar von Cicignon. During the next 60 years, several fortifications at the Fredrikstad Fortress were built, including Isegran, Kongsten, and Cicignon. In 1735, a suburb on the western side of Glomma, Vestsiden, was founded. This part later grew faster than the old city, and became the dominant city centre. Most of the buildings in the old city burned down during a fire in 1764.
In the 1840s, timber exporting from Fredrikstad started to gain momentum. In the 1860s, several steam powered saws were built along the river, and in 1879 the railway reached Fredrikstad, leading to further growth. With the decline of the timber exports as a result of the modernization of wood-processing industries in the early 1900s, Fredrikstad's production changed to other types of products. It later became one of Norway's most important industrial centres, famous for its large shipyard, Fredrikstad Mekaniske Verksted.
Fredrikstad Ukulele Band (FUB) plays Havana on the cross-town ferry for Kulturnatt 2018
It was GREAT FUN playing on the cross-town ferry ('Byferga'), from Gamlebyen to Gressvik (ca. 20 minutes) and back again, for a couple of round-trips, on Friday evening, September 14, 2018. This is FUB's 2nd year of participating during the CULTURAL NIGHT in Fredrikstad, Norway, where cultural activities are happening all over the downtown area, as well as in Gamlebyen (The Old Fortified Town on the other side of the River Glomma). Join us next year for even MORE FUN!
Oslofjord- Guide to the inner Oslo Fjord - Explore Oslo's boroughs - Activities and ...
Oslofjord- Guide to the inner Oslo Fjord - Explore Oslo's boroughs - Activities and ..., Oslo is one of Europe’s most amenable capitals, a vibrant, self-confident city with a relaxed and easy-going air, its handsome centre set between the rippling waters of the Oslofjord
and the green, forested hills of the interior. Yet Oslo’s confidence is new-found: for much of its history, the city was something of a poor relation to the other Scandinavian capitals, Stockholm and Copenhagen especially, and it remained dourly provincial until well into the 1950s. Since then, however, Oslo has transformed itself, forging ahead to become an enterprising and cosmopolitan commercial hub with a population of about half a million. Oslo is also the only major metropolis in a country brimming with small towns and villages – its nearest rival, Bergen, is less than half its size. This gives the city a powerful voice in the political, cultural and economic life of the nation and it’s pulled in all of Norway’s big companies, as a rash of concrete and glass tower blocks testifies.Fortunately, these monoliths rarely interrupt the stately Neoclassical lines of the late nineteenth-century city centre, Oslo’s most appealing district, a humming, good-natured place whose breezy streets and squares combine these appealing remnants of the city’s early days with a clutch of good museums – in particular the Nasjonalgalleriet (National Gallery) and the Hjemmefrontmuseum (Resistance Museum) – plus dozens of lively bars, cafés and restaurants.The city’s showpiece museums – most memorably the remarkable Vikingskipshuset (Viking Ships Museum) – are on the Bygdøy peninsula, which is readily reached by ferry from the jetty behind the Rådhus (City Hall). East Oslo is the least prepossessing part of town, a gritty sprawl housing the poorest of the city’s inhabitants, though the recently revived district of Grünerløkka is now home to a slew of fashionable bars and clubs. The main sight on the east side of town is the Munch-museet (Munch Museum), which boasts a superb collection of the artist’s work, though plans are afoot to move the museum to the harbourfront. Northwest Oslo is far more prosperous, with big old houses lining the avenues immediately to the west of the Slottsparken. Beyond is the Frognerparken, a chunk of parkland where the wondrous open-air sculptures of Gustav Vigeland are displayed in the Vigelandsparken. Further west still, beyond the city limits in suburban Høvikodden, the Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter displays more prestigious modern art, enhanced by the museum’s splendid setting on a headland overlooking the Oslofjord.The city’s enormous reach becomes apparent to the north of the centre in the Nordmarka. This massive forested wilderness, stretching far inland, is patterned by hiking trails and cross-country ski routes. Two T-bane (Tunnelbanen) lines provide ready access, weaving their way up into the rocky hills that herald the region. The more westerly T-bane rolls past Holmenkollen, a ski resort where the skijump makes a crooked finger on Oslo’s skyline, before terminating at Frognerseteren. Here the station is still within the municipal boundaries, but the surrounding forested hills and lakes feel anything but urban. The more easterly T-bane offers less wilderness, but it does end up close to Sognsvannet, a pretty little lake set amid the woods and an ideal place for an easy stroll and/or a picnic.Oslo curves round the innermost shore of the Oslofjord, whose tapered waters extend for some 100km from the Skagerrak, the choppy channel separating Norway and Sweden from Denmark. As Norwegian fjords go, the Oslofjord is not particularly beautiful – the rocky shores are generally low and unprepossessing – but scores of pretty little islets diversify the seascape. Many of these forested bumps accommodate summer chalets, but several have been protected from development and one of them – Hovedøya – makes for a lovely excursion. By comparison, the towns that trail along the shores of the Oslofjord are of little immediate appeal, being for the most part workaday industrial settlements. The few exceptions include, on the eastern shore, Fredrikstad, Norway’s only surviving fortified town, and on the western shore, the Viking burial mounds of Borre and the holiday resort of Tønsberg.
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Gamlebyen i Fredrikstad - April 2018
Drone video av Gamlebyen Fredrikstad april 2018
SOMMER 2013 II
Memories from the summer of 2013 in Fredrikstad, The Fortified (Old) Town and the District. Mémoires du l'été 2013 à Fredrikstad, La ville fortifié (vieille) et le district.
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Fredrikstad Ukulele Band (FUB) plays Proud Mary on the cross-town ferry for Kulturnatt 2018
It was GREAT FUN playing on the cross-town ferry ('Byferga'), from Gamlebyen to Gressvik (ca. 20 minutes) and back again, for a couple of round-trips, on Friday evening, September 14, 2018. This is FUB's 2nd year of participating during the CULTURAL NIGHT in Fredrikstad, Norway, where cultural activities are happening all over the downtown area, as well as in Gamlebyen (The Old Fortified Town on the other side of the River Glomma). Join us next year for even MORE FUN!
Fredrikstad Ukulele Band (FUB) plays The Lion Sleeps Tonight on Kulturnatt 2018
It was GREAT FUN playing on the cross-town ferry ('Byferga'), from Gamlebyen to Gressvik (ca. 20 minutes) and back again, for a couple of round-trips, on Friday evening, September 14, 2018. This is FUB's 2nd year of participating during the CULTURAL NIGHT in Fredrikstad, Norway, where cultural activities are happening all over the downtown area, as well as in Gamlebyen (The Old Fortified Town on the other side of the River Glomma). Join us next year for even MORE FUN!
Fredrikstad Ukulele Band (FUB) plays River Deep Mountain High on Kulturnatt 2018
It was GREAT FUN playing on the cross-town ferry ('Byferga'), from Gamlebyen to Gressvik (ca. 20 minutes) and back again, for a couple of round-trips, on Friday evening, September 14, 2018. This is FUB's 2nd year of participating during the CULTURAL NIGHT in Fredrikstad, Norway, where cultural activities are happening all over the downtown area, as well as in Gamlebyen (The Old Fortified Town on the other side of the River Glomma). Join us next year for even MORE FUN!