Siljan, Norway

2410 ( March 31, 2013 )

Siljan is a Norwegian municipality in Telemark and is located in the southeastern part. Siljan has many fishing waters for fishing, hiking trails and winter sports facilities. After Oslo, there are about 120 km.

In the 18th century this was an important iron production, which was operated with a smelting furnace (9 m high with an inner diameter of 2.50 m ) and correspondingly needed a lot of charcoal. Therefore, there are at earlier Moholt ironworks in oaths today a large coal memory along with the 1867 disused ironworks an industrial monument, take place in the cultural events. The system operated with charcoal ironworks could not compete with the foreign producing with coal competition. The ore came mostly from Arendal.

Most residents now work in neighboring municipalities Skien, Porsgrunn, and Larvik.

1930, took place on a small water bodies called Lauv, located in the drainage of the lakes of this area to Larvik, a dugout, which is now on display in Fylkemuseum in Skien. The C14 dating of 2001 showed an age of 1760 years (Beta 240 AD ± 70 ), ie from the Roman period. The Siljan dugout is worked out very thin-walled and carefully from an oak trunk. The boat was apparently worked out a halved tribe. The wall is only 1-2 cm thick. The boat is older than most dugout find in Norway. Also, most other boats made ​​of spruce wood. It is lighter and more streamlined in the water line.