The church was probably about four feet longer than the ruins suggests, and was Telemark's largest stone church in earlier times.
It had a number of unusual building features, including lektorium and a separate room for worldly goods, which today is called "the Maria Chapel".
Probably the church was the main church in Grenland, a kind of "county church", and had probably the highest status of all churches in the area.
The landscape with the escarpments, "flauane" in Norwegian, is characteristic of the…
Bamble is dominated by two types of landscape with completely different geological…
Great hiking area near Rognstranda in Bamble. Beautiful forests and flora.
Gallery Grindbakken is a small and exciting gallery by the water's edge at Stathelle.
Langesund customs warehouse as it stands today was erected in 1869.
Tollpakkboden is a log-built warehouse, the main part of which dates from the early 1700s.
The old guardhouse is now a customs museum, with artefacts found there from long ago.
Tangen Fort lies at the outermost point on Langesundtangen, south of the town of…
Valle, a gem of the archipelago with wealth of facilities, is located in the far south of…
As the first geopark in Scandinavia, Gea Norvegica became member of the Global Geoparks…