Horten
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| County | Vestfold | |
| District | ||
| Municipality | ||
| Administrative centre | Horten | |
| Mayor (2004) | Nils Henning Hontvedt | |
| Official language form | Bokmål | |
| Area - Total - Land - Percentage | 70 Square kilometre>km² 68 km² 0.02 % | |
| Population - Total (as of 2004>2004) - Percentage - Change (10 years) - Density | Ranked 34 24,671 0.54 % 8.2 % 361/km² | |
| Coordinates | ||
| [www.horten.kommune.no] [Data from Statistics Norway] | ||
The municipality was previously called Borre, but after a referendum in 2001, changed to Horten in June 1 2001. The district also includes the villages Borre, Åsgårdstrand, Skoppum and Nykirke.
Points of interest
Marinemuseet - Royal Norwegian Navy Museum - is the oldest existing museum of its kind in the world, founded in 1853. At the Royal Norwegian Navy Museum you can find many ships, including KNM Rap, the world's first torpedo boat from 1873.
Preus Fotomuseum - The Norwegian Museum of Photography - is a unique museum located in the same building as the naval museum.
Borre mound cemetery (Borrehaugene) - Borre National Park - contains graves of kings dating back to the Merovingian period. The park covers 45 acres (182,000 m²) and has the largest collection of kings' graves in Scandinavia. In 1989 to 1991, new excavations were undertaken both in and around the national park.
Borrehaugene provides important historical knowledge and can be seen as evidence that there was a centre of power here in the Viking age. The excavations also uncovered an unusually good selection of craft work, much of which is on display in Oslo at the Viking Ship Museum. This style has become known as "Borre style" and is, today, known for its beautiful animal and knot ornaments, which were often used for decorating harnesses. The finds also confirm that there was a Viking ship buried at Borrehaugene.
External links
- [The Naval Museum (Norwegian only)]
- [Museum of Photography]
- http://www.visithorten.com
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