NOTODDEN MUNICIPALITY
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Notodden, "The town saved by the Blues". Learn more about the Bluestown Rising film here. Here you see the official poster for the 2018 Notodden Blues Festival created by artist Leo T.
Famously called a coastal city by Norse Hydro founder Sam Hyde, Notodden is the regions gateway to the world.
Telemark was Norway’s ‘Wild West’, full of mystery, music and fairytales. Notodden is the heart. Gateway to the Wild Telemark.
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The Birthplace – In 1905, the world changed forever when Industrialist Sam Eyde arrived in Notodden and declared he was going to tame the thundering waterfalls.
Dare.
Game Changer – Bill Gates has said that the production of fertiliser here saved more than a billion people. That story began here in the buildings at Hydropark.
Feel.
The Town – The buildings of Notodden could be anywhere, you can create your own world here with the mountains and lake as backdrop.
Imagine.
Hydros' Power – Before Notodden and Rjukan of the Wild Telemark, waterpower had never been used for major industry. Here it began.
Revolt.
Notodden Nature – The settlement later becoming Notodden was located in Upper Telemark, defiantly independent. Nature is never far away.
Experience.
Alternative Realities – decades of innovative and creative work by a town of musicians and entrepreneurs where literally anything can happen.
Create.
Heddal Stave Church – Norway’s oldest Stave Church, art, craftsmanship and culture, the cross roads of the Viking world and Christianity.
Storytell.