Kongsberg Things to Do

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As I have already said, I was one of the people lucky enough to take a dinner in that mine, 1070 meters bellow the surface, breathing silver dust mixed with almost 400 years of mining industry.
I did this after an hour visit in some of it's galleries which are longer than 600 km.
We have entered the mine as the miners did so many years before us, in a real mining train. You can be sure that it wasn't my most confortable trip with the train but it was so real.
I had about 15 minutes to feel what the miners could feel going to risk so much for a better life, day by day, for their entire life.
I will let you see and comment, if you need so, my photos.
Sorry for the bad quality but the silver mine was not exactly the photo studio I have expected :)

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It is a must see of course, and I don't need to speak too much about it as I will attach here some nice links... enjoy them
What they are not saying on all those sites is that, when I have been there, a very young man, almost a boy, was playing piano.
It was perhaps Bach's Toccata but...I am not a connoisseur.
Anyway, it makes my visit special and it kept me inside the church more than I have paned.
Congratulation and sorry for disturbing you with my camera... if you'll read this by chance.

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Korset (meaning the cross) is a monument of the place where The Danish king Chr IV stood when he pointed out where he wanted Kongsberg to be built way back in 1624. The story says that he was drunk when he pointed and really meant Kongsberg to be a little longer to the right(south)
in the area of Sandsvær.
Today Korset is a popular goal for hikers as it is on the top of Kongsberg`s western hillside with perfect view of Kongsberg,Sandsvær,the Skrim mountain range and Øvre Eiker and Nedre Eiker kommuner.
In this area there are many remindings of the mining period. All around you will see signs with names on the old mines. A suggestion is to go and see the place where the first silver was found at the top of Kongens gruve.

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At Labro you can visit the Labromuseums. This is a part of Lågdalsmuseet that you can find about 6km south of Kongsberg. The museums are Vassdragsmusset,Numedalslågens Fløtningsmuseum and Norsk Vegmuseum avd. Buskerud.

The Vassdragsmuseum is a museum for business and culture in the old days along the Numedalslågen river with production of electricity as a special theme.

Numedalslågens fløtningsmuseum is about transportation of timber on the river down to the sawmills by the sea in the old days.

Norsk vegmuseum avd Buskerud is about the roads in Buskerud fylke.

The museums are open from 11-17 in the weekends from 12th of june-29th of august.
From the 3rd of july-15th of august itis open 11-17 every day.
adm fee 50nok for an adult.

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Near Skollenborg about 7km south of Kongsberg we have a professional 18holes golfcourse.
The greenfee is 350nok on weekdays and 450nok in weekends and hollidays.
The course has a Club shop ,restaurant, driving range, puttinggreen, pitchinggreen, 6 holes pay and play and you can hire carts, trolleys, clubs.
This is a relatively new golfcourse that have become wery popular.

You can find the monument of Kongsbergs founder King Christian IV next to the church in the quiet Stukenbroks gate. Every year at the 17th of may in the morning there is a short ceremony in front of this monument.

Tinius Olsen was born in Kongsberg in 1845. When he grew up he moved to the Usa and became a succesful businessman with his own technical patents. Some of the money he earned he gave back to the Kongsberg society. This money was used to start up the Tinius Olsen school so that people from Kongsberg not should have to go away to get technical education. Today the school and the monument lies side by side in the northern end of Magasinparken in the center of town next to the river.

On this picture you can see one of the Sakkerhusene in Saggrenda near Kongsberg. A Sakkerhus was used as accomodation for the miners,office, and also for keeping some of the silver. At one time there was more than 100 Sakkerhus in the Kongsberg area and you can still see some of them today (Sachsen). The ones in Saggrenda is the largest and nicest ones. Today they are rented out to weddings,parties etc.