Tvindefossen

Tvindefossen
Trollafossen
Tvindefossen is located in Vestland
Tvindefossen
Location within Vestland
Tvindefossen is located in Norway
Tvindefossen
Location within Norway
LocationVestland, Norway
Coordinates60°43′34″N 6°29′03″E / 60.726244°N 6.484203°E / 60.726244; 6.484203
TypeTiered Plunges
Total height116 metres (381 ft)
Number of drops2
Total width61 metres (200 ft)
Average width46 metres (151 ft)
Run152 metres (499 ft)
WatercourseKroelvi
Average flow rate
4 cubic metres per second (140 cu ft/s)

Tvindefossen (also written Tvinnefossen; also called Trollafossen) is a waterfall in Voss Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north of the village of Vossevangen along the European route E16 road to Flåm.[unreliable source?]

The many-stranded waterfall, often said to be 152 metres (499 ft) high, is actually 116 metres (381 ft), is formed by a small Kroelvi stream, tumbling over a receding cliff. It is famous for its beauty. Buses sometimes stop for people to admire it. It was painted in 1830 by Johan Christian Dahl.

In addition, in the late 1990s the water at Tvindefossen acquired a reputation for rejuvenation and revival of sexual potency that made it one of the most important natural tourist attractions in western Norway, with as many as 200,000 people a year from the U.S., Japan and Russia visiting and filling containers with the water.

At one point it was Norway's ninth most visited natural attraction, with 272,000 visitors.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Tvindefossen Archived 2010-12-22 at the Wayback Machine at World Waterfall Database
  2. 1 2 3 "Tvindefossen". World Waterfall Database.
  3. ↑ Northern European Cruises
  4. ↑ Ymer 36-37 (1917) p. 235 (in Swedish)
  5. ↑ Johan Vibe, Norges land og folk volume 12: Søndre Bergenhus amt, Kristiania: Aschehoug, 1896, p. 300 (in Norwegian)
  6. ↑ Terry Plant, Nordic Journeys, 5th ed. Newton Abbot, 1990, ISBN 978-0-9510511-2-2, p. 104.
  7. ↑ Andreas Aubert, Maleren Johan Christian Dahl: et stykke av forrige aarhundredes kunst- og kulturhistoria, Kristiania, 1920, p. 152 (in Norwegian)
  8. ↑ "Vilt ved Viagrafallene", Bergens Tidende 12 August 2001 (in Norwegian)
  9. ↑ Svein Kvalheim notes at the end of "Vøringfossen på topp", Bergens Tidende 2 November 2001: "det virker som om hver femte bilist denne sommeren lot være å stoppe ved Tvindefossen i Voss." - "it seems as if every fifth driver this summer refrained from stopping at the Tvinde waterfall in Voss."
  10. ↑ "Norge – turisme". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 28 May 2011.