Fredrikstad (Norway)

Fredrikstad (previously Frederiksstad) (literally Fredrik's Town) is a metropolis together with municipality inward Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the metropolis of Fredrikstad.

View towards the sometime town.

The metropolis of Fredrikstad was founded inward 1567 past times King Frederik II, together with established equally a municipality on 1 Jan 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The rural municipality of Glemmen was merged alongside Fredrikstad on 1 Jan 1964. The rural municipalities of Borge, Onsøy, Kråkerøy, together with Rolvsøy were merged alongside Fredrikstad on 1 Jan 1994.

Fredrikstad Cathedral

The metropolis straddles the river Glomma where it meets the Skagerrak. Along alongside neighboring Sarpsborg, Fredrikstad forms the 5th largest metropolis inward Norway: Fredrikstad/Sarpsborg. As of 1 Jan 2008, according to Statistics Norway, these 2 municipalities cause got a full population of 123,029 alongside 71,976 inward Fredrikstad together with 51,053 inward Sarpsborg.

Fredrikstad bridge, crossing the river Glomma.

Fredrikstad was built at the oral fissure of Glomma equally a replacement after Sarpsborg (15 km upstream) was burned downward past times the Swedes. Almost one-half the population of Sarpsborg stayed behind, together with rebuilt their sometime town at its master copy site.

The metropolis centre is on the westward depository fiscal establishment of the Glomma, piece the sometime town on the E depository fiscal establishment is Northern Europe's best preserved fortified town.

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Fredrikstad used to cause got a large sawmill manufacture together with was an of import harbour for timber export, so after on shipbuilding, until the principal yard was closed inward the 1980s. The principal industries are currently diverse chemic plants together with other lite industry.

In 2005, Fredrikstad was the concluding host port for the Tall Ships' Race, attracting thousands to the city.

Fredrikstad Stadion.

General information

Name

The metropolis was named after the Danish manlike someone monarch Frederik II inward 1569. The lastly chemical gene stad agency "city".

Prior to 1877, the mention was spelled Frederiksstad, so from 1877-1888 it was written equally Fredriksstad, together with finally since 1889 it has been spelled inward its electrical flow form: Fredrikstad.

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 21 Apr 1967. The sometime arms are based on the oldest known seal of the city, which dates from 1610. They showed a fortress existence guarded past times a bear. Strangely, Fredrikstad had no fortifications inward 1610 (it received closed to at the terminate of the 17th century). Fredrikstad was founded past times citizens of Sarpsborg together with both the fortress together with the behaviour are taken from the sometime arms of Sarpsborg. The composition of the seal was equally good used equally arms since the offset of the 19th century. The novel arms were granted at the 400th anniversary of the metropolis inward 1967 together with exhibit a to a greater extent than modern variation on the fortress together with bear.

History

After Sarpsborg was burned to the dry reason during the Northern Seven Years' War, the ruling king, Frederik II of Denmark, decided past times violet decree to rebuild the metropolis xv kilometres (9 mi) southward of the master copy location. This novel site's proximity to the body of body of water together with the accessible opened upward province surrounding it made it a ameliorate location than the sometime one. The mention Fredrikstad was firstly used inward a missive of the alphabet from the King dated half-dozen Feb 1569. The temporary fortification built during the Hannibal War (1644–1645) betwixt Sweden together with Denmark-Norway, became permanent inward the 1660s.

The plough over off the fortifications was firstly led past times William de Coucheron together with after Johan Caspar von Cicignon. During the side past times side sixty years, several fortifications at the Fredrikstad Fortress were built, including Isegran, Kongsten, together with Cicignon. In 1735, a suburb on the western side of Glomma, Vestsiden, was founded. This purpose after grew faster than the sometime city, together with became the dominant metropolis centre. Most of the buildings inward the sometime metropolis burned downward during a sack inward 1764.

In the 1840s, timber exporting from Fredrikstad started to gain momentum. In the 1860s, several steam powered saws were built along the river, together with inward 1879 the railway reached Fredrikstad, leading to farther growth. With the spend upward of the timber exports equally a effect of the modernization of wood-processing industries inward the early on 1900s, Fredrikstad's production changed to other types of products. It after became i of Norway's nigh of import industrial centres, famous for its large shipyard, Fredrikstad Mekaniske Verksted.