Waiting for warmer days

Full moon

Last Sunday was a beautiful and sunny day. The evening was a great sight as well. Luckily there were no clouds so I could see the full moon rise over my home town. A bit cold but for me it was worth it.

Narrow street

This is one of many narrow streets in Trondheim. I find it relaxing and nice to walk these streets among beautiful wooden houses. I can just try to imagine how it was here for a hundred years ago.

Just after sunset

This is a part of Trondheim city. In front you can see St. Olavs Hospital, in the middle to the right is the University and in the back you see Tyholt tower.

Sweet Swan

2010

The end of the first decade of the first century of the second milennium. Jiihaaa :-)

Miss Mallard

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Kristiansten Fortress is located in Trondheim. It was built after the city fire of Trondheim in 1681 to protect the city against attack from the east. Constructed finished in 1685. It fulfilled its purpose in 1718 when Swedish forces lay siege of Trondheim. The fortress was decommissioned in 1816 by king Charles John.

Trondheim was traditionally protected fortifications by the river Nidelven and Skansen, but the city was vulnerable to attack from the east. The Fortress was therefore put on a hill to protect the city centre and control the area from Ila to Lade. General Johan Caspar von Cicignon was responsible for the new town plan of Trondheim after the great fire of April 18, 1681. In 1750 the fortress was modernized with new bastions and casemates to protect against mortar artillery. Two new isolated defensive works were also built to the east - Grüners and Frølichs redutt - but they are hardly visible today.

The main building featured in the picture is the defensive tower - Donjonen - with artillery, quartering and stores was the centre of the defences. After decommissioning in 1816 it was location of the fire watch, and since 1997 as a museum.

In the final days of the Great Northern War, Karl XII of Sweden initiated a second invasion of Norway in the fall of 1718. While Karl XII led his main army in an attack from the south, an army under General Carl Gustav Armfelt was sent to seize Trondheim. Armfelt advanced against Trondheim, which was defended by an army of 6,900 men under Vincens Budde. The Swedish forces were resisted both by Norwegian forces and by the people of the countryside, who bitterly recalled the previous Swedish occupation of Trøndelag. Provisions were not available, and the Norwegian winter set in. Although he reached the city and laid siege, the strength of Kristiansten Fortress and other fortifications was such that he chose to retreat. Karl XII issued a sharp rebuke and ordered Armfelt to take Trondheim. Although Armfelt's forces surrounded Trondheim, Budde's forces were able to keep him at bay. Camping in the open and poorly fed, many of Armfelt's troops fell ill and his capable forces were reduced to 4000 men. When Karl XII was killed in December by a bullet at Fredriksten Fortress in Halden, Armfelt's forces retreated to Sweden. On their way back across the mountains, almost the entire army was lost, mostly because of snow, cold temperature and a strong blizzard; the retreat has been likened to Napoleon’s from Moscow for the severity of casualties.

During WWII the Nazis executed a number of Norwegian patriots at Kristiansten.

The fortress was the official place of execution of convicted and condemned traitors and war criminals following the legal purge in Norway after WWII. The notorious Henry Rinnan was executed here on February 1, 1947, and nine of his followers afterwards, eight of them on the same day in 1947.

This last picture is a view from the fortress. You can see the fjord and the city.

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Periscope

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This is the oldest Social Institution in Europe, Trondheims Hospital. Founded September 13, 1277 by Archbishop Jon Raude when Magnus Lagabøter (Magnus the law-mender) was King of Norway.

This building is restored several times.

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Skansen Bridge in Trondheim.

This bridge is a railway bridge, designed by Joseph Strauss, who also constructed the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, USA. It opened on March 22, 1918, allowing trains access from south to Trondheim. And also being abel to open so that boats and ships can sail between Trondheim Canal and Trondheimsfjorden.

In 2006 the bridge was conserved by the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. This conservation includes the entire bridge construction and technical equipment, the guard building and the transformer building, but not the railway track, signal equipment and overhead wires.

The bridge is functional and in use today.

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Dinghy

This boat belongs to a rich russian man. The boat is 25 meters long and 6 meters wide and costs about 40 million NOK. Since October 08 it has been at the harbor in Trondheim.

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In this panorama you can see a great part of Trondheim. Click on the photo to see a larger version.

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Another evening shot from Trondheim. Captured in November 2008. Yes it is similar to previous posted pictures but this time I have been trying out HDR. Hopefully this added some effect to the picture.

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These photos were captured in November 2008. In the top one, you can see St. Olavs Hospital in front and Tyholt Tower in the back.

In the last one you can also see Nidaros Cathedral in the middle, and the city center to the left of the cathedral.

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I went for a walk on Sunday (a quiet day) down to Nedre Elvehavn and TMV.

Trondhjems mekaniske Værksted or TMV was a major shipbuilding company in Trondheim, Norway. It was founded in 1872 by the engineer Sophus August Weidemann. For many years TMV was the biggest employer in Trondheim. The majority of TMV's shares was acquired by Aker in 1960, merging them into the Aker Group. The company was closed in 1983.

The former location of the company's shipbuilding business, Nedre Elvehavn, is still referred to as "TMV" by some citizens of Trondheim. The entire area has been subject to an urban renewal project. A shopping centre, Solsiden, was built on the grounds in October 2000, and the surrounding area now has several apartment buildings and a hotel.

The history of the area as a shipyard is preserved; the dry docks, many of the company buildings and even some of the shipbuilding equipment (such as a large crane) is still present. When a pedestrian bridge connecting Nedre Elvehavn to the city centre of Trondheim was built in 2003, it was named Verftsbrua, meaning "the (ship)yard bridge".

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Bridges between/ Broer som binder

A new bridge across the river Nidelven in Trondheim is under construction. The bridge and the new road will guide traffic around our city center. Hopefully there will be less traffic jam when this is finished.

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Trondheim tonight

The church you see is called Nidarosdomen/ Nidaros Cathedral. For more info click here

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For this week My World Tuesday I will show you a few pictures from my home town Trondheim. Trondheim is a small city with only 150 000 citizens. We have a lot of old wooden houses, and some of the old streets are narrow.

Pictures of a more modern city are yet to come.