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Lyngdal

The forest village north of Lampeland.

About Lyngdal

Get to know Lyngdal

Lyngdal is a forestry and farming village in the side valley that runs north from Lampeland towards Sigdal. It is the smallest parish in the municipality, with about 400 residents spread over 126 km².

Lyngdal Church was consecrated in 1701 and rebuilt as a cruciform church in the 1730s. The pulpit has painted decoration from 1698. Around the hamlet of Lyngdalsgrenda lies a working farming landscape on a south-west-facing slope, registered as a valuable cultural landscape in Buskerud.

You get here on the Fv2822 from Lampeland or the Fv2786 from Flesberg.

1701Lyngdal Church consecrated
126 km²parish area
−34.2°coldest recorded temperature

Sources (in Norwegian): Store norske leksikon: Lyngdal, Store norske leksikon: Lyngdal kirke, Wikipedia: Flesberg kommune

Fv40 Blefjell ↓ Kongsberg Svene Lampeland Flesberg Lyngdal

Municipal border: © Kartverket (CC BY 4.0). Roads are simplified.

Did you know? The Norwegian Meteorological Institute ran a weather station in Lyngdal from 1954 to 2006. Temperatures here have ranged from 32.6 to minus 34.2 degrees.

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Lyngdal Church

Log church from 1701, rebuilt as a cruciform church in the 1730s. Richly decorated inside, with painted decoration from around 1700.

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