Kollafjørður

Kollafjørður [ ˌ kɔtla FJO ː ɹʊɹ ] ( Danish name: Kollefjord ) is a place of the Faroe Islands on the island of Streymoy.

• Population: 817 (1 January 2007 )
• Postal Code: FO -410
• Municipality: Tórshavnar municipal

Kollafjørður is located on the fjord of the same name and extends there through about 10 kilometers of the coast. Administratively, it is part of the capital Tórshavn.

Here was at least since the Middle Ages a local Thingstätte, the so-called Várting. In the village is one of the ten Faroese wooden churches. It dates from the year 1837.

The bank robbery of Kollafjørður

In January 1985, it came in Kollafjørður first known bank robbery in the Faroe Islands. Two perpetrators demanded all of the money to the local bank and were able to escape. The police had to move in only from the neighboring Tórshavn and refrained from inexperience to a roadblock, so that the perpetrators of them probably with the car came to meet without being recognized.

Despite the unanonymen structures on the island, the police tapped a long time in the dark and called for reinforcements from Copenhagen. Only the body sizes of the suspects was known to them. So it came first to the arrest of an eligible non-conformists, who had, however, boast an alibi in the form of a swimming pool access card.

One of the perpetrator was finally apprehended when outputting the prey. When you purchase a 3000 Crown expensive VCR, he paid exclusively with 10 - crown notes, because he had received all the small bills in the division of spoils.

Personalities

• Johan Dalsgaard (born 1966 ) - actor and entertainer
• Sverri Djurhuus (1920-2003) - Author